The prince said, “Nonsense, nonsense.

Two characters, twice. 胡說 is what he said to the oracle a few passages back, and it is all he has left.

Since the Quanzhen adept left, my father’s reign has had timely rains and temperate winds, the realm at peace and the people content.

And his evidence is the good governance of the last three years — 風調雨順 and 國泰民安, timely rains and temperate winds, the realm at peace and the people content. Both are still everyday phrases for a country running well. The cruelty is that he is right about the facts: the fiend has been a competent king. And the first of those phrases is the one Tripitaka used at the very start, prescribing it as the reward of virtuous rule — here it turns up as the alibi of a murderer. 調 is tiáo, tuned, not diào.

By your account, then, he is not my royal father at all.

He follows the argument to its conclusion and recoils from it. 照依你說 — "going by what you say" — 不是 taking 不 as bú.

It is only because I am young in years that I bear with you;

A flash of something better than anger: he knows he is young, and says so. 年孺 is youth; 容得 is to bear with, 得 read dé; 還是 has 還 as hái.

were my royal father to hear these treasonous words of yours, he would have you seized and hacked to ten thousand pieces.”

And then the threat, which is a real one: 碎屍萬段, hacked into ten thousand pieces. Note that it echoes Tripitaka's own boast on the first night, when he promised the ghost his disciples would grind an intruder to powder — the same violence, now pointed the other way. 反話 is treasonous talk.

With a snort he shouted Pilgrim down.

咄 duō is a bark of rebuke, the noise you make at a dog. 喝下來 is to shout someone down off a dais.

Pilgrim said to the Tang Monk, “What did I say?

Wukong turns to his master with the two most satisfying characters available to him: 何如, "well?"

I said he would not believe — and truly, truly, so it is.

"Sure enough, sure enough." 果然 doubled — the tone is of a man collecting on a bet. 不信 takes 不 as bú.

Now let us just present that treasure to him, exchange our travel-rescript, and be off to the West.”

And a plausible threat to leave, which is also a bluff. 倒換關文 is to have the travel-rescript stamped and exchanged, the passport formality every kingdom on the route demands; 倒 is dào, to turn over or swap. 那寶貝 takes the pointing nà.

Tripitaka thereupon handed the red box to Pilgrim.

Tripitaka hands over the box. 即將 has 將 as jiāng; 紅匣子 ends in the light zi.

Pilgrim took it, gave his body a shake, and that little box vanished all at once.

One shake and the casket is gone — which is the first thing in this scene the prince has seen that cannot be explained away. 將身一抖 has 將 as jiāng; 那匣兒 takes the pointing nà and the light er. The sealed note reads 卒 here as cù, suddenly (the sense usually written 猝), against the ruby's zú.

It had been made from one of his hairs, and he drew it back up onto his body.

Because it was never a box. It was a hair, and it goes back where it came from. 毫毛 is a fine body-hair; 收上 is to draw back up.

Then he raised the white-jade tablet in both hands and presented it to the prince.

And then, in both hands, the tablet. The gesture is a subject's gesture — 雙手捧上, raised on both palms, the correct way to present anything to a sovereign. Wukong has stopped arguing and started paying homage. 卻將 has 將 as jiāng; 太子 keeps 子 as zǐ.