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寶貝療疼
The Treasure Offered
那妖魔氣得亂跳道：「罷了，罷了，我兒被他摜殺了，已是不可活也。只好拿那和尚來與我兒子償命報仇罷，渾家，你且莫哭。你如今心裡覺道怎麼？且醫治一醫治。」行者道：「我不怎的，只是捨不得孩兒，哭得我有些心疼。」妖魔道：「不打緊，你請起來，我這裡有件寶貝，只在你那疼上摸一摸兒，就不疼了。卻要仔細，休使大指兒彈著；若使大指兒彈著啊，就看出我本相來了。」那妖魔气得乱跳道：「罢了，罢了，我儿被他掼杀了，已是不可活也。只好拿那和尚来与我儿子偿命报仇罢，浑家，你且莫哭。你如今心里觉道怎么？且医治一医治。」行者道：「我不怎的，只是舍不得孩儿，哭得我有些心疼。」妖魔道：「不打紧，你请起来，我这里有件宝贝，只在你那疼上摸一摸儿，就不疼了。却要仔细，休使大指儿弹著；若使大指儿弹著啊，就看出我本相来了。」
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那妖魔氣得亂跳道：「罷了，罷了，我兒被他摜殺了，已是不可活也。
那妖魔气得乱跳道：「罢了，罢了，我儿被他掼杀了，已是不可活也。
The fiend, so enraged he sprang about, cried, “It is over, it is over — my children, dashed dead by him, cannot now be alive.
氣得亂跳 (qì de luàn tiào), so angry as to leap about; 得 read de. 我兒 (wǒ ér), my children; 兒 read ér. 那 read nà.
只好拿那和尚來與我兒子償命報仇罷，渾家，你且莫哭。
只好拿那和尚来与我儿子偿命报仇罢，浑家，你且莫哭。
There is nothing for it but to take that monk and make him pay with his life for my sons’ — revenge for revenge. Wife, weep no more.
償命報仇 (cháng mìng bào chóu), to pay with a life and avenge a wrong. 兒子 (érzi), sons; 兒 read ér. 那 read nà.
你如今心裡覺道怎麼？
你如今心里觉道怎么？
How feels your heart within you now?
覺道 (jué dào), to feel, to sense.
且醫治一醫治。」
且医治一医治。」
Let me tend to it a little.”
醫治 (yīzhì), to treat, to doctor.
行者道：「我不怎的，只是捨不得孩兒，哭得我有些心疼。」
行者道：「我不怎的，只是舍不得孩儿，哭得我有些心疼。」
Pilgrim said, “It is nothing with me — only that, unable to give up the children, I have wept myself into a heartache.”
捨不得 (shě bu de), unwilling to give up; 得 read de. 哭得 (kū de), wept to the point that; 得 read de. 孩兒 with 兒 as ér.
妖魔道：「不打緊，你請起來，我這裡有件寶貝，只在你那疼上摸一摸兒，就不疼了。
妖魔道：「不打紧，你请起来，我这里有件宝贝，只在你那疼上摸一摸儿，就不疼了。
The fiend said, “No matter; get up. I have here a treasure — give the sore place but a rub with it, and it will pain you no more.
不打緊 (bù dǎjǐn), no matter, of no consequence. 摸一摸兒 (mō yì mō’r), to give a rub; 兒 here the retroflex suffix, read er. 那 read nà.
卻要仔細，休使大指兒彈著；若使大指兒彈著啊，就看出我本相來了。」
却要仔细，休使大指儿弹著；若使大指儿弹著啊，就看出我本相来了。」
But have a care: do not flick it with your thumb; for if you flick it with your thumb, my true form will be seen.”
大指兒 (dà zhǐ’r), the thumb; 兒 the retroflex suffix, read er. 彈著 (tán zháo), to flick and strike upon; 著 read zháo. 本相 (běn xiàng), true form; 相 read xiàng. 仔 read zǐ.
總評 Commentary
The demon’s grief for his children makes him careless, and in his solicitude for the false princess’s “heartache” he commits the fatal indiscretion of offering his most precious possession — and, worse, of naming its one vulnerability. His warning not to flick the treasure with a thumb, lest his true form be exposed, is the very information Wukong needs, volunteered freely out of tenderness.
The passage turns on the irony that the demon’s affection, genuine as it is, becomes the instrument of his undoing. Wukong’s counterfeit sorrow has done its work: the monster, wholly disarmed, hands his secret to his enemy. The scene sets up the theft of the inner elixir that follows, and confirms the chapter’s method — the fiend is beaten not by force but by having his own heart turned against him.