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風和尚
You Crazy Monk
樵子聞言，仰天大笑道：「你原來是個風和尚。」行者道：「我不風啊，這是老實話。」樵子道：「你說是老實，便怎敢說把他遞解起身？」行者道：「你這等長他那威風，胡言亂語的攔路報信，莫不是與他有親？不親必鄰，不鄰必友。」樵子笑道：「你這個風潑和尚，忒沒道理。我倒是好意，特來報與你們，教你們走路時，早晚間防備，你倒轉賴在我身上。且莫說我不曉得妖魔出處，就曉得啊，你敢把他怎麼的遞解？解往何處？」樵子闻言，仰天大笑道：「你原来是个风和尚。」行者道：「我不风啊，这是老实话。」樵子道：「你说是老实，便怎敢说把他递解起身？」行者道：「你这等长他那威风，胡言乱语的拦路报信，莫不是与他有亲？不亲必邻，不邻必友。」樵子笑道：「你这个风泼和尚，忒没道理。我倒是好意，特来报与你们，教你们走路时，早晚间防备，你倒转赖在我身上。且莫说我不晓得妖魔出处，就晓得啊，你敢把他怎么的递解？解往何处？」
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樵子聞言，仰天大笑道：「你原來是個風和尚。」
樵子闻言，仰天大笑道：「你原来是个风和尚。」
Hearing this, the woodcutter laughed up at the sky and said: “So you are a crazy monk after all.”
仰天大笑 (yǎng tiān dà xiào), "to laugh up at the sky." 風和尚, "crazy monk" — 風 in its vernacular sense of "mad, addled."
行者道：「我不風啊，這是老實話。」
行者道：「我不风啊，这是老实话。」
Said Pilgrim: “I am not crazy — this is honest talk.”
老實話 (lǎoshi huà), "honest, plain speech."
樵子道：「你說是老實，便怎敢說把他遞解起身？」
樵子道：「你说是老实，便怎敢说把他递解起身？」
Said the woodcutter: “You call it honest — then how dare you speak of having him escorted off under guard?”
遞解起身 (dì jiè qǐ shēn), "to convey off under escort." 解 read jiè.
行者道：「你這等長他那威風，胡言亂語的攔路報信，莫不是與他有親？
行者道：「你这等长他那威风，胡言乱语的拦路报信，莫不是与他有亲？
Said Pilgrim: “You, puffing up his prestige like this, talking wild nonsense as you block the road to bring word — could it be you are kin to him?
長他威風 (zhǎng tā wēifēng), "to swell his prestige" — 長 read zhǎng (to increase). 那 nà.
不親必鄰，不鄰必友。」
不亲必邻，不邻必友。」
If not kin, then surely a neighbor; if not a neighbor, then surely a friend.”
不親必鄰 (bù qīn bì lín), "if not kin, then a neighbor" — a stock escalating figure.
樵子笑道：「你這個風潑和尚，忒沒道理。
樵子笑道：「你这个风泼和尚，忒没道理。
The woodcutter laughed: “You crazy, brazen monk — you make no sense at all.
風潑和尚 (fēng pō héshang), "crazy, insolent monk." 忒沒道理, "utterly unreasonable."
我倒是好意，特來報與你們，教你們走路時，早晚間防備，你倒轉賴在我身上。
我倒是好意，特来报与你们，教你们走路时，早晚间防备，你倒转赖在我身上。
I, on the contrary, meant well, coming specially to warn you, so that on your road you might be on guard morning and night; and you turn it round and lay the blame on me.
倒 (dào) twice, adversative ("on the contrary / instead"); 倒轉, "to turn round." 早晚間 — 間 jiān.
且莫說我不曉得妖魔出處，就曉得啊，你敢把他怎麼的遞解？解往何處？」
且莫说我不晓得妖魔出处，就晓得啊，你敢把他怎么的递解？解往何处？」
And say nothing of my not knowing where the fiends come from — even if I did know, how would you dare have him escorted off? Escorted off to where?”
曉得 (xiǎo de), "to know" — 得 read de (twice). 遞解/解往 — 解 read jiè.
總評 Commentary
The woodcutter plays the straight man, laughing off Pilgrim as a “crazy monk” (風和尚) — 風 in its vernacular sense of “mad, addled” — and challenging the escort-boast: how, and to where, would he deport a demon he cannot even locate? Pilgrim, refusing the frame, turns accuser, insinuating that anyone so eager to talk up the demons’ menace must be their kin, neighbor, or friend.
The exchange is a set-piece of vernacular banter, its humor built on the collision of the officer’s earnest warning with Pilgrim’s willful literalism. The escalating triad — 不親必鄰，不鄰必友 (“if not kin, a neighbor; if not a neighbor, a friend”) — is a stock rhetorical figure, deployed here to needle rather than to reason.