怒斥假全真 Mistaken for the Adept
太子見了道：「好和尚，好和尚。你五年前本是個全真，來騙了我家的寶貝，如今又妝做和尚來進獻。」叫：「拿了！」一聲傳令，把長老諕得慌忙指著行者道：「你這弼馬溫，專撞空頭禍，帶累我哩。」行者近前一齊攔住道：「休嚷，莫走了風！我不叫做立帝貨，還有真名哩。」太子怒道：「你上來。我問你個真名字，好送法司定罪！」行者道：「我是那長老的大徒弟，名喚悟空孫行者。因與我師父上西天取經，昨宵到此覓宿。太子见了道：「好和尚，好和尚。你五年前本是个全真，来骗了我家的宝贝，如今又妆做和尚来进献。」叫：「拿了！」一声传令，把长老諕得慌忙指着行者道：「你这弼马温，专撞空头祸，带累我哩。」行者近前一齐拦住道：「休嚷，莫走了风！我不叫做立帝货，还有真名哩。」太子怒道：「你上来。我问你个真名字，好送法司定罪！」行者道：「我是那长老的大徒弟，名唤悟空孙行者。因与我师父上西天取经，昨宵到此觅宿。
逐句解 Line by line
The prince, seeing it, said, “A fine monk, a fine monk!
The proof fails, and it fails in the most plausible way. 好和尚 — "a fine monk!" — said with the meaning inverted, exactly as English does it.
Five years ago you were a Quanzhen adept, come to cheat my house of its treasure; and now you play the monk and come to present it back!”
His reading is entirely rational: the man holding the stolen tablet is the thief. He has just built the wrong story out of the right evidence, which is what everyone in this chapter keeps doing. 妝做 is to disguise oneself as; 進獻 is to present as tribute — he thinks he is watching a con artist return the goods for a reward.
He cried, “Seize him!”
The second arrest of the passage, and this time it is Tripitaka who panics. 拿了 takes the completive le.
At the word of command, the elder, in his fright, hastily pointed at Pilgrim and said, “You Protector of Horses — always running into groundless disasters, and dragging me down with you!”
And out comes the insult he saves for emergencies. 弼馬溫 bì mǎ wēn, "Protector of Horses," was the derisory post Heaven fobbed Wukong off with in chapter 4, and it is the one name guaranteed to enrage him — which is presumably why a frightened monk reaches for it. 空頭禍 is a groundless, self-inflicted disaster; 帶累 is to drag someone down with you. 諕得 has 諕 as xià again; 指著 has 著 as zhe; 長老 takes 長 as zhǎng.
Pilgrim came forward and stopped them all, saying, “Do not shout — let not the secret out!
Wukong's priority is not his own neck. 走了風 is to let the wind out — to leak the secret; 休嚷 is "stop shouting." With a fiend three years installed and friends in every court of the underworld, noise is the real danger.
I am not called Establish-the-Emperor Ware; I have a true name yet.”
And the oracle-name is discarded. 還有真名哩 — I have a real name — with the light 哩 making it almost casual, which it is not. 還 is hái.
The prince said angrily, “Come up here.
你上來 — come up here. The prince summons him onto the dais to be identified.
I will ask you your true name, the better to send you to the law-officers for sentence!”
And the reason is a legal one: he wants the name for the charge sheet. 法司 is the judicial authorities; 定罪 is to fix a sentence. 名字 ends in the light zi in the sealed note's reading, against the ruby's zì.
Pilgrim said, “I am the eldest disciple of that elder, named Wukong, Pilgrim Sun.
So he gives it, and the effect is a small thunderclap: 悟空孫行者. After eighteen passages of "Establish-the-Emperor Ware" the real name arrives, and with it the whole weight of the reputation. 那長老 takes the pointing nà and 長 as zhǎng.
Because I go with my master up to the West to fetch scriptures, we came here last night to seek lodging.
And then, disarmingly, the ordinary facts: we came here last night looking for a bed. 昨宵 is last night; 覓宿 is to seek lodging.
The recognition-token misfires. Handed the tablet everyone knows was stolen, the prince concludes the obvious thing — that the man producing it is the thief, back in a new disguise — and orders him seized. The proof deepens the impasse instead of resolving it, and Tripitaka's terrified reproach, dragging out the old Protector of Horses insult, breaks the tension into the pilgrims' familiar bickering.
Cornered, Wukong drops the oracle persona and gives his own name. It is a real turning point: everything up to here has been performance — casket, rabbit, manikin, shop-sign name — and from this line on he simply tells the truth in order. His first instinct on being arrested is also worth noting. Not "let me go" but "stop shouting": with the fiend three years installed, the only irrecoverable mistake would be noise.