Canonical Classics ← 第三十四回
第三十四回
魔mó王wáng巧qiǎo算suàn困kùn心xīn猿yuán
大dà聖shèng騰téng挪nuó騙piàn寶bǎo貝bèi

The Demon King, by artful reckoning, confounds the Mind-Monkey; the Great Sage, by shifting sleight, filches away the treasures.

洞口報到
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洞口報到 Announced at the Cave-Mouth

不bù多duō時shí，到dào了le蓮lián花huā洞dòng口kǒu，那nà毫háo毛máo變biàn的de小xiǎo妖yāo俱jù在zài前qián道dào：「開kāi門mén！開kāi門mén！」內nèi有yǒu把bǎ門mén的de小xiǎo妖yāo開kāi了le門mén道dào：「巴bā山shān虎hǔ、倚yǐ海hǎi龍lóng來lái了le？」毫háo毛máo道dào：「來lái了le。」「你nǐ們men請qǐng的de奶nǎi奶nai呢ne？」毫háo毛máo用yòng手shǒu指zhǐ道dào：「那nà轎jiào內nèi的de不bú是shì？」小xiǎo怪guài道dào：「你nǐ且qiě住zhù，等děng我wǒ進jìn去qù先xiān報bào。」報bào道dào：「大dà王wáng，奶nǎi奶nai來lái耶yé。」兩liǎng個gè魔mó頭tóu聞wén說shuō，即jí命mìng排pái香xiāng案àn來lái接jiē。不bù多duō时shí，到dào了le莲lián花huā洞dòng口kǒu，那nà毫háo毛máo变biàn的de小xiǎo妖yāo俱jù在zài前qián道dào：「开kāi门mén！开kāi门mén！」内nèi有yǒu把bǎ门mén的de小xiǎo妖yāo开kāi了le门mén道dào：「巴bā山shān虎hǔ、倚yǐ海hǎi龙lóng来lái了le？」毫háo毛máo道dào：「来lái了le。」「你nǐ们men请qǐng的de奶nǎi奶nai呢ne？」毫háo毛máo用yòng手shǒu指zhǐ道dào：「那nà轿jiào内nèi的de不bú是shì？」小xiǎo怪guài道dào：「你nǐ且qiě住zhù，等děng我wǒ进jìn去qù先xiān报bào。」报bào道dào：「大dà王wáng，奶nǎi奶nai来lái耶yé。」两liǎng个gè魔mó头tóu闻wén说shuō，即jí命mìng排pái香xiāng案àn来lái接jiē。

逐句解 Line by line

不bù多duō時shí，到dào了le蓮lián花huā洞dòng口kǒu，那nà毫háo毛máo變biàn的de小xiǎo妖yāo俱jù在zài前qián道dào：「開kāi門mén！開kāi門mén！」內nèi有yǒu把bǎ門mén的de小xiǎo妖yāo開kāi了le門mén道dào：「巴bā山shān虎hǔ、倚yǐ海hǎi龍lóng來lái了le？」毫háo毛máo道dào：「來lái了le。」「你nǐ們men請qǐng的de奶nǎi奶nai呢ne？」毫háo毛máo用yòng手shǒu指zhǐ道dào：「那nà轎jiào內nèi的de不bú是shì？」 不bù多duō时shí，到dào了le莲lián花huā洞dòng口kǒu，那nà毫háo毛máo变biàn的de小xiǎo妖yāo俱jù在zài前qián道dào：「开kāi门mén！开kāi门mén！」内nèi有yǒu把bǎ门mén的de小xiǎo妖yāo开kāi了le门mén道dào：「巴bā山shān虎hǔ、倚yǐ海hǎi龙lóng来lái了le？」毫háo毛máo道dào：「来lái了le。」「你nǐ们men请qǐng的de奶nǎi奶nai呢ne？」毫háo毛máo用yòng手shǒu指zhǐ道dào：「那nà轿jiào内nèi的de不bú是shì？」

In no time they reached the mouth of Lotus-Flower Cave, and the hair-conjured imps in front called out: “Open the gate! Open the gate!” A gate-keeping imp within opened it and said: “Are Mountain-Straddling Tiger and Sea-Reclining Dragon back?” The hairs said: “We're back.” “And Grandma, whom you went to invite?” The hairs pointed with their hands: “Isn't that her in the sedan?”

那毫毛變的小妖 nà háo máo biàn de xiǎo yāo, the hair-conjured imps, pointing 那. The gatekeeper's question is answered by a pointing finger and a rhetorical shrug: 那轎內的不是 nà jiào nèi de bù shì, isn't that her in the sedan — the 那 points, and the whole force of the retort sits in 不是, a negative doing the work of a challenge.

小xiǎo怪guài道dào：「你nǐ且qiě住zhù，等děng我wǒ進jìn去qù先xiān報bào。」報bào道dào：「大dà王wáng，奶nǎi奶nai來lái耶yé。」兩liǎng個gè魔mó頭tóu聞wén說shuō，即jí命mìng排pái香xiāng案àn來lái接jiē。 小xiǎo怪guài道dào：「你nǐ且qiě住zhù，等děng我wǒ进jìn去qù先xiān报bào。」报bào道dào：「大dà王wáng，奶nǎi奶nai来lái耶yé。」两liǎng个gè魔mó头tóu闻wén说shuō，即jí命mìng排pái香xiāng案àn来lái接jiē。

The little fiend said: “Wait a moment; let me go in and announce it first.” He reported: “Great Kings, Grandma has come.” Hearing this, the two demon lords at once ordered an incense-table set out to receive her.

先報 xiān bào, announce first — the gatekeeper is being conscientious, and his conscientiousness is what admits the assassin with full honours. 即命排香案來接 jí mìng pái xiāng àn lái jiē, at once ordered an incense-table set out to receive her: the altar of formal welcome due a mother, made ready for an impostor.

總評 Commentary

The return through the gate mirrors the earlier passage in reverse. Where Wukong once talked his way past a single female gatekeeper, he now sweeps in as the mistress herself, borne by a procession of his own hairs who answer for him at the door. The gate-imp's dutiful pause — 等我進去先報, let me go in and announce it first — is the machinery of a well-run household turned against its masters.

The brothers' response finishes baiting the trap. Told that Mother has come, they order an incense-table set out to receive her with ceremony, and the reader watches the demons prepare, in perfect filial earnest, exactly the honours Wukong schemed to collect. The whole apparatus of reverence — announcement, altar, reception — is being readied for a fraud, and the fiends' own piety is the instrument of their gulling.