第四回 · 哪吒出陣 Nezha Takes the Field — Journey to the West

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哪吒出陣 Nezha Takes the Field

巨jù靈líng神shén抵dǐ敵dí他tā不bú住zhù，被bèi猴hóu王wáng劈pī頭tóu一yí棒bàng，慌huāng忙máng將jiāng斧fǔ架jià隔gé，扢gē扠chā的de一yì聲shēng，把bǎ個gè斧fǔ柄bǐng打dǎ做zuò兩liǎng截jié，急jí撤chè身shēn敗bài陣zhèn逃táo生shēng。猴hóu王wáng笑xiào道dào：「膿nóng包bāo，膿nóng包bāo。我wǒ已yǐ饒ráo了le你nǐ，你nǐ快kuài去qù報bào信xìn，快kuài去qù報bào信xìn。」巨jù靈líng神shén回huí至zhì營yíng門mén，徑jìng見jiàn托tuō塔tǎ天tiān王wáng，忙máng哈hā哈hā跪guì下xià道dào：「弼bì馬mǎ溫wēn果guǒ是shì神shén通tōng廣guǎng大dà，末mò將jiàng戰zhàn他tā不bù得de，敗bài陣zhèn回huí來lái請qǐng罪zuì。」李lǐ天tiān王wáng發fā怒nù道dào：「這zhè廝sī剉cuò吾wú銳ruì氣qì，推tuī出chū斬zhǎn之zhī！」傍páng邊biān閃shǎn出chū哪né吒zhā太tài子zǐ拜bài告gào：「父fù王wáng息xī怒nù，且qiě恕shù巨jù靈líng之zhī罪zuì。待dài孩hái兒ér出chū師shī一yì遭zāo，便biàn知zhī深shēn淺qiǎn。」天tiān王wáng聽tīng諫jiàn，且qiě教jiào回huí營yíng待dài罪zuì管guǎn事shì。這zhè哪né吒zhā太tài子zǐ甲jiǎ冑zhòu齊qí整zhěng，跳tiào出chū營yíng盤pán，撞zhuàng至zhì水shuǐ簾lián洞dòng外wài。那nà悟wù空kōng正zhèng來lái收shōu兵bīng，見jiàn哪né吒zhā來lái的de勇yǒng猛měng。好hǎo太tài子zǐ：巨jù灵líng神shén抵dǐ敌dí他tā不bú住zhù，被bèi猴hóu王wáng劈pī头tóu一yí棒bàng，慌huāng忙máng将jiāng斧fǔ架jià隔gé，扢gē扠chā的de一yì声shēng，把bǎ个gè斧fǔ柄bǐng打dǎ做zuò两liǎng截jié，急jí撤chè身shēn败bài阵zhèn逃táo生shēng。猴hóu王wáng笑xiào道dào：「脓nóng包bāo，脓nóng包bāo。我wǒ已yǐ饶ráo了le你nǐ，你nǐ快kuài去qù报bào信xìn，快kuài去qù报bào信xìn。」巨jù灵líng神shén回huí至zhì营yíng门mén，径jìng见jiàn托tuō塔tǎ天tiān王wáng，忙máng哈hā哈hā跪guì下xià道dào：「弼bì马mǎ温wēn果guǒ是shì神shén通tōng广guǎng大dà，末mò将jiàng战zhàn他tā不bù得de，败bài阵zhèn回huí来lái请qǐng罪zuì。」李lǐ天tiān王wáng发fā怒nù道dào：「这zhè厮sī剉cuò吾wú锐ruì气qì，推tuī出chū斩zhǎn之zhī！」傍páng边biān闪shǎn出chū哪né咤zhā太tài子zǐ拜bài告gào：「父fù王wáng息xī怒nù，且qiě恕shù巨jù灵líng之zhī罪zuì。待dài孩hái儿ér出chū师shī一yì遭zāo，便biàn知zhī深shēn浅qiǎn。」天tiān王wáng听tīng谏jiàn，且qiě教jiào回huí营yíng待dài罪zuì管guǎn事shì。这zhè哪né咤zhā太tài子zǐ甲jiǎ胄zhòu齐qí整zhěng，跳tiào出chū营yíng盘pán，撞zhuàng至zhì水shuǐ帘lián洞dòng外wài。那nà悟wù空kōng正zhèng来lái收shōu兵bīng，见jiàn哪né咤zhā来lái的de勇yǒng猛měng。好hǎo太tài子zǐ：

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巨jù靈líng神shén抵dǐ敵dí他tā不bú住zhù，被bèi猴hóu王wáng劈pī頭tóu一yí棒bàng，慌huāng忙máng將jiāng斧fǔ架jià隔gé，扢gē扠chā的de一yì聲shēng，把bǎ個gè斧fǔ柄bǐng打dǎ做zuò兩liǎng截jié，急jí撤chè身shēn敗bài陣zhèn逃táo生shēng。巨jù灵líng神shén抵dǐ敌dí他tā不bú住zhù，被bèi猴hóu王wáng劈pī头tóu一yí棒bàng，慌huāng忙máng将jiāng斧fǔ架jià隔gé，扢gē扠chā的de一yì声shēng，把bǎ个gè斧fǔ柄bǐng打dǎ做zuò两liǎng截jié，急jí撤chè身shēn败bài阵zhèn逃táo生shēng。

The Mighty-Spirit God could not withstand him: struck by the Monkey King's cudgel full at the head, he hurriedly raised his axe to parry — and with a crack the axe-handle was broken clean in two; he wheeled in haste and fled the field for his life.

The duel ends on a sound effect. 扢扠的一聲 is the text simply writing down the noise — roughly gē chā, a splintering crack — as the axe-handle goes in two. 不住 takes bú, 一棒 yí, 一聲 yì; in 將斧 the 將 is the object-marker jiāng.

猴hóu王wáng笑xiào道dào：「膿nóng包bāo，膿nóng包bāo。我wǒ已yǐ饒ráo了le你nǐ，你nǐ快kuài去qù報bào信xìn，快kuài去qù報bào信xìn。」猴hóu王wáng笑xiào道dào：「脓nóng包bāo，脓nóng包bāo。我wǒ已yǐ饶ráo了le你nǐ，你nǐ快kuài去qù报bào信xìn，快kuài去qù报bào信xìn。」

The Monkey King laughed, "Milksop! Milksop! I've spared you already — be quick and carry the word, be quick and carry the word."

膿包 is literally a "pus-sac" and idiomatically a milksop — still a serviceable Chinese insult for somebody with no backbone. Wukong lets the beaten general go, and jeers him off the field.

巨jù靈líng神shén回huí至zhì營yíng門mén，徑jìng見jiàn托tuō塔tǎ天tiān王wáng，忙máng哈hā哈hā跪guì下xià道dào：「弼bì馬mǎ溫wēn果guǒ是shì神shén通tōng廣guǎng大dà，末mò將jiàng戰zhàn他tā不bù得de，敗bài陣zhèn回huí來lái請qǐng罪zuì。」巨jù灵líng神shén回huí至zhì营yíng门mén，径jìng见jiàn托tuō塔tǎ天tiān王wáng，忙máng哈hā哈hā跪guì下xià道dào：「弼bì马mǎ温wēn果guǒ是shì神shén通tōng广guǎng大dà，末mò将jiàng战zhàn他tā不bù得de，败bài阵zhèn回huí来lái请qǐng罪zuì。」

The Mighty-Spirit God returned to the camp gate, went straight to the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, and hastily knelt with a nervous laugh: "Bìmǎwēn's powers are indeed vast and far-reaching; this lowly general could not best him, and has come back beaten to beg for punishment."

末將, "this lowly general," is the self-lowering term an officer uses to a superior; 將 is jiàng. 戰他不得 is "could not beat him" — the potential construction, which is harder to admit than simply losing.

李lǐ天tiān王wáng發fā怒nù道dào：「這zhè廝sī剉cuò吾wú銳ruì氣qì，推tuī出chū斬zhǎn之zhī！」李lǐ天tiān王wáng发fā怒nù道dào：「这zhè厮sī剉cuò吾wú锐ruì气qì，推tuī出chū斩zhǎn之zhī！」

Heavenly King Lǐ flew into a rage: "This wretch has blunted my army's spirit — drag him out and behead him!"

剉吾銳氣, "blunted my army's edge" — 剉 (cuò) is to file something down. The Heavenly King's reflex on hearing the report is to execute the officer who brought it.

傍páng邊biān閃shǎn出chū哪né吒zhā太tài子zǐ拜bài告gào：「父fù王wáng息xī怒nù，且qiě恕shù巨jù靈líng之zhī罪zuì。待dài孩hái兒ér出chū師shī一yì遭zāo，便biàn知zhī深shēn淺qiǎn。」傍páng边biān闪shǎn出chū哪né咤zhā太tài子zǐ拜bài告gào：「父fù王wáng息xī怒nù，且qiě恕shù巨jù灵líng之zhī罪zuì。待dài孩hái儿ér出chū师shī一yì遭zāo，便biàn知zhī深shēn浅qiǎn。」

From the side stepped Prince Nezha, who bowed and pleaded, "Father, calm your anger and pardon Mighty-Spirit's fault for now. Wait till your child goes out to battle once, and we'll know the measure of him."

哪吒太子, Prince Nezha, steps in to spare Mighty-Spirit and volunteer himself — filial deference and ambition in the same bow. 一遭 takes yì before the level tone of 遭; 傍邊 is a variant writing of 旁邊.

天tiān王wáng聽tīng諫jiàn，且qiě教jiào回huí營yíng待dài罪zuì管guǎn事shì。天tiān王wáng听tīng谏jiàn，且qiě教jiào回huí营yíng待dài罪zuì管guǎn事shì。

The Heavenly King heeded the remonstrance and ordered Mighty-Spirit back to camp, on probation, to make himself useful.

且教回營待罪管事: Mighty-Spirit is put on probation and told to make himself useful rather than beheaded. 教 is causative jiào.

這zhè哪né吒zhā太tài子zǐ甲jiǎ冑zhòu齊qí整zhěng，跳tiào出chū營yíng盤pán，撞zhuàng至zhì水shuǐ簾lián洞dòng外wài。这zhè哪né咤zhā太tài子zǐ甲jiǎ胄zhòu齐qí整zhěng，跳tiào出chū营yíng盘pán，撞zhuàng至zhì水shuǐ帘lián洞dòng外wài。

Prince Nezha, his armor and helm trim and complete, leapt out of the camp and charged up to the Water-Curtain Cave.

甲冑齊整, "armour and helmet trim and complete" — 冑 (zhòu) is a helmet. The boy-general is dressed to the last strap.

那nà悟wù空kōng正zhèng來lái收shōu兵bīng，見jiàn哪né吒zhā來lái的de勇yǒng猛měng。那nà悟wù空kōng正zhèng来lái收shōu兵bīng，见jiàn哪né咤zhā来lái的de勇yǒng猛měng。

Wukong, just then coming to call in his troops, saw Nezha approaching, bold and fierce —

Nezha seen through his enemy's eyes, "bold and fierce." The novel keeps doing this.

好hǎo太tài子zǐ：好hǎo太tài子zǐ：

a fine prince:

好太子, "a fine prince" — the same cue phrase that opened Wukong's own portrait, now pointed at the other side.

總評 Commentary

The duel finishes exactly as the poem promised: abruptly. 巨靈's axe-handle snaps with a written-out crack, 扢扠, and Heaven's famous vanguard runs for his life with nothing chasing him but the word "milksop." Wukong's restraint is worth noticing. He spares the general precisely so that word gets back — he is treating the fight as a message, not a slaughter. His quarrel is still about recognition, not blood.

Heaven's own response is harsher than Wukong's. 李天王's first instinct on hearing the report is to behead his beaten officer for having blunted the army's edge — a flash of how brittle the celestial bureaucracy turns under failure, and how fast it punishes its own. Nezha's intervention, sparing 巨靈 and volunteering in his place, is both proper filial conduct and the standard move of the dynastic war-romance, where the young prince steps forward as the veteran falls.

The passage closes by framing Nezha through Wukong's eyes, "bold and fierce," and handing off to a portrait poem. The echo of the Mighty-Spirit episode is deliberate: another challenger, another approach to the cave, another 好… cue phrase. The novel is building a ladder of opponents, each more legitimate than the last, against an antagonist whose only credential is being strong enough to break them. The 心猿 cannot be talked down or outranked. It can only be met — and so far nobody in Heaven's array has met it and stayed standing.