第三十五回 · 壓龍聚眾 Rallying at Coiled-Dragon — Journey to the West

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壓龍聚眾 Rallying at Coiled-Dragon

卻què說shuō那nà老lǎo魔mó徑jìng投tóu壓yā龍lóng山shān，會huì聚jù了le大dà小xiǎo女nǚ怪guài，備bèi言yán打dǎ殺shā母mǔ親qīn，裝zhuāng了le兄xiōng弟dì，絕jué滅miè妖yāo兵bīng，偷tōu騙piàn寶bǎo貝bèi之zhī事shì。眾zhòng女nǚ怪guài一yì齊qí大dà哭kū，哀āi痛tòng多duō時shí道dào：「你nǐ等děng且qiě休xiū悽qī慘cǎn。我wǒ身shēn邊biān還hái有yǒu這zhè口kǒu七qī星xīng劍jiàn，欲yù會huì汝rǔ等děng女nǚ兵bīng，都dōu去qù壓yā龍lóng山shān後hòu，會huì借jiè外wài家jiā親qīn戚qī，斷duàn要yào拿ná住zhù那nà孫sūn行xíng者zhě報bào仇chóu。」却què说shuō那nà老lǎo魔mó径jìng投tóu压yā龙lóng山shān，会huì聚jù了le大dà小xiǎo女nǚ怪guài，备bèi言yán打dǎ杀shā母mǔ亲qīn，装zhuāng了le兄xiōng弟dì，绝jué灭miè妖yāo兵bīng，偷tōu骗piàn宝bǎo贝bèi之zhī事shì。众zhòng女nǚ怪guài一yì齐qí大dà哭kū，哀āi痛tòng多duō时shí道dào：「你nǐ等děng且qiě休xiū凄qī惨cǎn。我wǒ身shēn边biān还hái有yǒu这zhè口kǒu七qī星xīng剑jiàn，欲yù会huì汝rǔ等děng女nǚ兵bīng，都dōu去qù压yā龙lóng山shān后hòu，会huì借jiè外wài家jiā亲qīn戚qī，断duàn要yào拿ná住zhù那nà孙sūn行xíng者zhě报bào仇chóu。」

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卻què說shuō那nà老lǎo魔mó徑jìng投tóu壓yā龍lóng山shān，會huì聚jù了le大dà小xiǎo女nǚ怪guài，備bèi言yán打dǎ殺shā母mǔ親qīn，裝zhuāng了le兄xiōng弟dì，絕jué滅miè妖yāo兵bīng，偷tōu騙piàn寶bǎo貝bèi之zhī事shì。却què说shuō那nà老lǎo魔mó径jìng投tóu压yā龙lóng山shān，会huì聚jù了le大dà小xiǎo女nǚ怪guài，备bèi言yán打dǎ杀shā母mǔ亲qīn，装zhuāng了le兄xiōng弟dì，绝jué灭miè妖yāo兵bīng，偷tōu骗piàn宝bǎo贝bèi之zhī事shì。

Now the old fiend made straight for Coiled-Dragon Mountain, gathered the she-demons great and small, and told them the whole tale — how his mother had been beaten to death, his brother bottled, his imps wiped out, and his treasures filched.

壓龍山 — Coiled-Dragon Mountain. 備言, "told in full." The catalogue of losses — mother, brother, imps, treasures — recapitulates the whole arc for the new company.

眾zhòng女nǚ怪guài一yì齊qí大dà哭kū，哀āi痛tòng多duō時shí道dào：「你nǐ等děng且qiě休xiū悽qī慘cǎn。众zhòng女nǚ怪guài一yì齐qí大dà哭kū，哀āi痛tòng多duō时shí道dào：「你nǐ等děng且qiě休xiū凄qī惨cǎn。

The she-demons all wept together, and mourned a long while, till [one] said: “You and the rest, cease your grieving.

一齊大哭 — "wept all together"; 哀痛多時, "mourned a good while." The collective grief echoes the demons’ own earlier lament.

我wǒ身shēn邊biān還hái有yǒu這zhè口kǒu七qī星xīng劍jiàn，欲yù會huì汝rǔ等děng女nǚ兵bīng，都dōu去qù壓yā龍lóng山shān後hòu，會huì借jiè外wài家jiā親qīn戚qī，斷duàn要yào拿ná住zhù那nà孫sūn行xíng者zhě報bào仇chóu。」我wǒ身shēn边biān还hái有yǒu这zhè口kǒu七qī星xīng剑jiàn，欲yù会huì汝rǔ等děng女nǚ兵bīng，都dōu去qù压yā龙lóng山shān后hòu，会huì借jiè外wài家jiā亲qīn戚qī，断duàn要yào拿ná住zhù那nà孙sūn行xíng者zhě报bào仇chóu。」

I have still this Seven-Star Sword at my side. I mean to gather you she-soldiers, go all of you behind Coiled-Dragon Mountain, and call in the help of our maternal kinsfolk, and we shall surely take that Sun Xingzhe and be avenged.”

外家親戚 — "the kin on the mother’s side." 斷要, "must, are bound to"; 那孫行者 deictic (nà), 行 forced to xíng.

總評 Commentary

The scene shifts to Coiled-Dragon Mountain, where the fleeing fiend rallies a fresh company of she-demons and recites, for their benefit and the reader’s, the full ledger of his losses: his mother slain, his brother bottled, his host destroyed, his treasures stolen. The recapitulation gathers the whole chapter’s action into a single grievance.

Grief turns at once to the machinery of vengeance. Still armed with the Seven-Star Sword, the fiend proposes to muster the she-soldiers and, crucially, to call in the "maternal kinsfolk" — widening the feud from a household quarrel into a clan war. It is the familiar escalation of the vernacular novel: a defeated villain does not surrender but sends for relatives.