黃金動心 Yellow Gold Stirs the Heart
八戒道：「哥哥，你哄我去做賊哩。這個買賣，我也去得。果是曉得實實的幫寸，我也與你講個明白：偷了寶貝，降了妖精，我卻不奈煩甚麼小家罕氣的分寶貝，我就要了。」行者道：「你要作甚？」八戒道：「我不如你們乖巧能言，人面前化得出齋來。老豬身子又夯，言語又粗，不能念經，若到那無濟無生處，可好換齋吃麼。」行者道：「老孫只要圖名，那裡圖甚寶貝？就與你便了。」那獃子聽見說都與他，他就滿心歡喜，一轂轆爬將起來，套上衣服，就和行者走路。這是清酒紅人面，黃金動道心。八戒道：「哥哥，你哄我去做贼哩。这个买卖，我也去得。果是晓得实实的帮寸，我也与你讲个明白：偷了宝贝，降了妖精，我却不奈烦甚么小家罕气的分宝贝，我就要了。」行者道：「你要作甚？」八戒道：「我不如你们乖巧能言，人面前化得出斋来。老猪身子又夯，言语又粗，不能念经，若到那无济无生处，可好换斋吃么。」行者道：「老孙只要图名，那里图甚宝贝？就与你便了。」那呆子听见说都与他，他就满心欢喜，一毂辘爬将起来，套上衣服，就和行者走路。这是清酒红人面，黄金动道心。
逐句解 Line by line
Bajie said: 'Brother, you're coaxing me into playing the thief.'
哄我去做賊: coaxing me into thieving — Bajie sees through the 'business' at once, but is not deterred.
'This piece of business — I'll go along with it too.'
去得: can go, am willing to go (得 = de). Bajie's condition follows.
'But if it's a real, solid job of teamwork, let me have it plain with you: once we've stolen the treasure and subdued the demon, I've no patience for any petty, stingy dividing up of the spoils — I'll just take it.'
實實的幫寸: a genuine, solid partnership. 降了妖精: subdued the demon (降 = xiáng). 小家罕氣: petty and stingy. 不奈煩: cannot be bothered with (不 = bú). 曉得: 得 = dé; 甚麼 = shén me.
The Pilgrim said: 'And what would you want it for?'
Wukong, amused, asks what Bajie would even do with it. 甚 = shén (作甚, 'for what').
Bajie said: 'I'm not clever and glib like you others, able to beg alms to people's faces.'
乖巧能言: clever and eloquent. 化得出齋: able to beg alms successfully (得 = de). Bajie's self-deprecation is also a bid.
'Old Pig is thick of body and coarse of speech, and can't chant the scriptures; so if we come to some place of no help and no living, it would be handy to trade the thing for a meal.'
身子又夯: thick and clumsy of body (身子, 子 = zi, suffix; 夯 = hāng). 無濟無生處: a place of no relief and no livelihood (處 = chù, 'place'). 那 = nà; Bajie wants the treasure as a food-fund.
The Pilgrim said: 'Old Sun is only after renown — what would I want with any treasure?'
圖名: to seek reputation. 那裡圖甚寶貝: 'why would [I] covet any treasure?' — 那 = nǎ (rhetorical); 甚 = shén.
'It's yours, and there's an end of it.'
就與你便了: 'it's given to you, and that's that' (了 = le).
When the blockhead heard that it would all be his, his heart was filled with delight; he rolled over and scrambled up, pulled on his clothes, and set off along with the Pilgrim.
都與他: it would all be his. 一轂轆爬將起來: rolled over and scrambled up (轂 = gū; 將 = jiāng, directional). 那 = nà; 都 = dōu; 和 = hé; 行 = xíng.
This is a case of: clear wine reddens a man's face; yellow gold stirs even the Daoist heart.
清酒紅人面，黃金動道心: 'clear wine reddens a man's face; yellow gold stirs the Daoist heart' — a proverbial couplet, kept as prose, wryly glossing Bajie's sudden eagerness once the gold is promised. 道心: the mind of one on the Way (dào).
Bajie's negotiation completes the con. He sees through the 'business' — 'you're coaxing me into thieving' — but signs on anyway, on one condition: he keeps the treasure. His justification is pure Bajie: unlike his glib companions he cannot beg alms, so he needs the loot as a hedge against hungry days. Self-interest, frankly avowed, is his abiding character note.
Wukong closes the deal with a truth that costs him nothing: he wants only fame, not spoils, so Bajie may have the treasure and welcome. The exchange neatly contrasts the two disciples — the one indifferent to material reward, the other governed by his appetites — and the promise of gold transforms the reluctant sleeper into an eager accomplice, up and dressed in a moment.
The passage, and the scene, close on a proverbial couplet — 清酒紅人面，黃金動道心 — that supplies the moral in miniature: as wine flushes the face, so gold moves even a would-be adept's heart. The saying gently satirizes Bajie's cupidity while sealing the partnership; the two disciples set off together, and the chapter turns at last toward the well and the grim, comic labor waiting at the bottom of it.