第三十回 · 審問沙僧 The Demon Interrogates Sha Wujing — Journey to the West

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審問沙僧 The Demon Interrogates Sha Wujing

那nà怪guài聞wén言yán，不bù容róng分fēn說shuō，掄lūn開kāi一yì隻zhī簸bò箕jī大dà小xiǎo的de藍lán靛diàn手shǒu，抓zhuā住zhù那nà金jīn枝zhī玉yù葉yè的de髮fà萬wàn根gēn，把bǎ公gōng主zhǔ揪jiū上shàng前qián，捽zuó在zài地dì下xià。執zhí著zhe鋼gāng刀dāo，卻què來lái審shěn沙shā僧sēng，咄duō的de一yì聲shēng道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，你nǐ兩liǎng個gè輒zhé敢gǎn擅shàn打dǎ上shàng我wǒ們men門mén來lái，可kě是shì這zhè女nǚ子zǐ有yǒu書shū到dào他tā那nà國guó，國guó王wáng教jiào你nǐ們men來lái的de？」那nà怪guài闻wén言yán，不bù容róng分fēn说shuō，抡lūn开kāi一yì只zhī簸bò箕jī大dà小xiǎo的de蓝lán靛diàn手shǒu，抓zhuā住zhù那nà金jīn枝zhī玉yù叶yè的de发fà万wàn根gēn，把bǎ公gōng主zhǔ揪jiū上shàng前qián，捽zuó在zài地dì下xià。执zhí著zhe钢gāng刀dāo，却què来lái审shěn沙shā僧sēng，咄duō的de一yì声shēng道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，你nǐ两liǎng个gè辄zhé敢gǎn擅shàn打dǎ上shàng我wǒ们men门mén来lái，可kě是shì这zhè女nǚ子zǐ有yǒu书shū到dào他tā那nà国guó，国guó王wáng教jiào你nǐ们men来lái的de？」

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那nà怪guài聞wén言yán，不bù容róng分fēn說shuō，掄lūn開kāi一yì隻zhī簸bò箕jī大dà小xiǎo的de藍lán靛diàn手shǒu，抓zhuā住zhù那nà金jīn枝zhī玉yù葉yè的de髮fà萬wàn根gēn，把bǎ公gōng主zhǔ揪jiū上shàng前qián，捽zuó在zài地dì下xià。那nà怪guài闻wén言yán，不bù容róng分fēn说shuō，抡lūn开kāi一yì只zhī簸bò箕jī大dà小xiǎo的de蓝lán靛diàn手shǒu，抓zhuā住zhù那nà金jīn枝zhī玉yù叶yè的de发fà万wàn根gēn，把bǎ公gōng主zhǔ揪jiū上shàng前qián，捽zuó在zài地dì下xià。

At these words the demon, brooking no discussion, swung out a hand broad as a winnowing-basket and indigo-blue, seized the ten thousand strands of that jade-branch, gold-leaf hair, hauled the princess forward, and flung her down upon the ground.

金枝玉葉 ("golden boughs and jade leaves") is the set idiom for royal offspring — the princess is a king’s daughter. Against this the grotesque physical detail erupts: a hand 簸箕大小 ("the size of a winnowing-basket") and 藍靛 (indigo-dyed, monstrous blue). The physiognomy of the monster puts his earlier courtly reasoning to rout.

執zhí著zhe鋼gāng刀dāo，卻què來lái審shěn沙shā僧sēng，咄duō的de一yì聲shēng道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，你nǐ兩liǎng個gè輒zhé敢gǎn擅shàn打dǎ上shàng我wǒ們men門mén來lái，可kě是shì這zhè女nǚ子zǐ有yǒu書shū到dào他tā那nà國guó，國guó王wáng教jiào你nǐ們men來lái的de？」执zhí著zhe钢gāng刀dāo，却què来lái审shěn沙shā僧sēng，咄duō的de一yì声shēng道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，你nǐ两liǎng个gè辄zhé敢gǎn擅shàn打dǎ上shàng我wǒ们men门mén来lái，可kě是shì这zhè女nǚ子zǐ有yǒu书shū到dào他tā那nà国guó，国guó王wáng教jiào你nǐ们men来lái的de？」

Gripping his steel sabre, he turned instead to interrogate Sha the Monk, barking out: "Sha the Monk! How is it you two dared, unbidden, to come pounding at our gate? Was it that this woman sent a letter off to that kingdom of his, and the king dispatched you here?"

In 執著鋼刀 the durative 著 is read zhe ("gripping, holding fast"). 輒敢 and 擅 ("to presume, dare rashly; without leave") frame the monks’ assault as insolent trespass. He now redirects the interrogation from the princess onto Sha, correctly guessing at both the letter and the king’s commission.

總評 Commentary

The passage stages an abrupt collapse of the demon’s rationality into brute violence: the same being who was reasoning about ritual propriety a moment ago now drags a princess across the floor by her hair. The winnowing-basket hand and the indigo skin restore his monstrousness fully to view, undoing the courtly self-image of the opening.

His question to Sha reconstructs the plot correctly a third time — the letter, the king’s dispatch — so that everything now turns on the monk’s answer: whether Sha will confirm the charge and doom the princess, or take it upon himself.

The idiom 金枝玉葉 sets the princess’s royal blood against her utter helplessness, sharpening the pathos that will move Sha Wujing, in the next passage, to his act of self-sacrifice.