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洞中三寶
The Three Treasures of the Cave
正嚷處，只見前門外一個小妖報道：「行者孫又罵上門來了。」那老魔又大驚道：「這廝輕我無人。」叫：「小的們，且把豬八戒照舊吊起，查一查還有幾件寶貝。」管家的小妖道：「洞中還有三件寶貝哩。」老魔問：「是那三件？」管家的道：「還有七星劍、芭蕉扇與淨瓶。」老魔道：「那瓶子不中用：原是叫人，人應了就裝得，轉把個口訣兒教了那孫行者，倒把自家兄弟裝去了。正嚷处，只见前门外一个小妖报道：「行者孙又骂上门来了。」那老魔又大惊道：「这厮轻我无人。」叫：「小的们，且把猪八戒照旧吊起，查一查还有几件宝贝。」管家的小妖道：「洞中还有三件宝贝哩。」老魔问：「是那三件？」管家的道：「还有七星剑、芭蕉扇与净瓶。」老魔道：「那瓶子不中用：原是叫人，人应了就装得，转把个口诀儿教了那孙行者，倒把自家兄弟装去了。
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正嚷處，只見前門外一個小妖報道：「行者孫又罵上門來了。」
正嚷处，只见前门外一个小妖报道：「行者孙又骂上门来了。」
In the thick of the uproar, an imp at the front gate reported: “Xingzhe Sun is at the door again, cursing his way in!”
正嚷處 (zhèng rǎng chù) — "just at the point of the clamor," 處 read chù. (Here 行 is again forced to xíng over a spurious default.) Wukong returns to bait the fiends anew.
那老魔又大驚道：「這廝輕我無人。」
那老魔又大惊道：「这厮轻我无人。」
The old fiend started again in alarm: “This wretch makes light of me, as if I had no men at all!”
輕我無人 — "slights me [as though I had] no one," i.e. holds him and all his host in contempt.
叫：「小的們，且把豬八戒照舊吊起，查一查還有幾件寶貝。」
叫：「小的们，且把猪八戒照旧吊起，查一查还有几件宝贝。」
He called: “Little ones, string Zhu Bajie back up as before, and go check how many treasures are still left.”
查一查還有 — "check over what remains," 還 read hái, "still."
管家的小妖道：「洞中還有三件寶貝哩。」
管家的小妖道：「洞中还有三件宝贝哩。」
The steward-imp said: “There are still three treasures in the cave.”
洞中 (dòng zhōng) — "within the cave"; 還有, "there yet remain."
老魔問：「是那三件？」
老魔问：「是那三件？」
The old fiend asked: “Which three?”
是那三件 (shì nǎ sān jiàn) — "which three?", 那 interrogative nǎ.
管家的道：「還有七星劍、芭蕉扇與淨瓶。」
管家的道：「还有七星剑、芭蕉扇与净瓶。」
The steward said: “There are still the Seven-Star Sword, the Plantain Fan, and the Pure Vase.”
The three: 七星劍 (the Seven-Star Sword), 芭蕉扇 (the Plantain Fan), and 淨瓶 (the Pure Vase) — the same name-swallowing vase that took the second fiend.
老魔道：「那瓶子不中用：原是叫人，人應了就裝得，轉把個口訣兒教了那孫行者，倒把自家兄弟裝去了。
老魔道：「那瓶子不中用：原是叫人，人应了就装得，转把个口诀儿教了那孙行者，倒把自家兄弟装去了。
The old fiend said: “That vase is no use now — its way is to call a man, and the moment he answers it bottles him; but the trick of it was handed straight to that Sun Xingzhe, who used it to bottle my own brother instead.”
不中用 — "of no use, no good" (read here zhōng, though some give zhòng). 口訣兒, "the spell, the knack," 兒 the suffix (er). 教了 (jiāo le) here is "taught, imparted," 教 read jiāo — distinct from the jussive jiào. 倒 (dào), the adversative "instead." The vase is set aside because Wukong now knows its working.
總評 Commentary
As Wukong resumes his taunting at the gate, the old fiend turns to his armory, and the steward’s inventory names the three treasures still in reserve: the Seven-Star Sword, the Plantain Fan, and the Pure Vase. The catalogue quietly arms the next movement of the arc, telling the reader exactly what weapons remain to be reckoned with.
The vase, however, the fiend sets aside — and his reason is a neat piece of plot-accounting. Its power is the same name-and-answer trap that has already claimed the second brother; but since Wukong has learned its working, it can no longer be turned against him. The elder’s bitter phrasing (倒把自家兄弟裝去了) folds his grief into his tactics.