現身受詬 The Demon Unmasked
妖精現了本像，坐在當中道：「豬八戒，你有甚麼手段，就敢保唐僧取經？就敢請菩薩降我？你大睜著兩個眼，還不認得我是聖嬰大王哩。如今拿你，吊得三五日，蒸熟了賞賜小妖，權為案酒。」八戒聽言，在裡面罵道：「潑怪物！十分無禮。若論你百計千方，騙了我吃，管教你一個個遭腫頭天瘟。」獃子罵了又罵，嚷了又嚷，不題。妖精现了本像，坐在当中道：「猪八戒，你有甚么手段，就敢保唐僧取经？就敢请菩萨降我？你大睁着两个眼，还不认得我是圣婴大王哩。如今拿你，吊得三五日，蒸熟了赏赐小妖，权为案酒。」八戒听言，在里面骂道：「泼怪物！十分无礼。若论你百计千方，骗了我吃，管教你一个个遭肿头天瘟。」呆子骂了又骂，嚷了又嚷，不题。
逐句解 Line by line
The demon revealed his true form and, sitting in the centre, said: ‘Zhu Eight Rules, what skill have you, that you dare guard the Tang Monk on his scripture-quest?
The disguise drops and he sits down in the middle of his own hall to enjoy this. The first question is contemptuous rather than curious: what makes you think you are qualified to guard anybody?
That you dare to ask the Bodhisattva to subdue me?
And the second, better one: what makes you think you can send for a Bodhisattva against me? 降 is xiáng, to subdue. He is mocking the errand he has just intercepted, which is the sweetest part of it for him.
With both your eyes wide open, you still do not know me for the Sage-Child King.
The taunt that lands hardest. Both eyes wide open and you still did not know me. Then the name, delivered in triumph: 聖嬰大王, the Sage-Child King. He has been called Red Boy by everyone all chapter; this is what he calls himself.
Now that I have caught you, I'll hang you three to five days, then steam you and reward my little imps, to serve for the moment as a wine-snack.’
The sentence, and it is domestic and horrible. Hang him a few days, steam him, and give him to the staff as a 案酒 -- a wine-snack. It is the same word the demon used about Tripitaka twenty passages ago. He is consistent about how he thinks of these people.
Eight Rules, hearing this, cursed from inside: ‘You insolent monster!
From inside the bag, Bajie starts swearing. There is something admirable in it: hung from a beam in a sack, and his first move is abuse.
Utterly without manners.
Four characters of outrage. "Utterly without manners" is a marvellously inadequate complaint to make about someone who has just announced plans to steam you.
If you go by your hundred schemes and thousand tricks, cheating me to eat me, I'll see to it that every one of you catches a swollen-headed plague.’
And the curse, which is pure Bajie: may every one of you catch a swollen-head plague. 天瘟 is a heaven-sent pestilence. He has no power to bring one on and everyone in the room knows it.
The blockhead cursed and cursed, bawled and bawled — of which no more.
罵了又罵, 嚷了又嚷 -- cursed and cursed, bawled and bawled. The doubling makes it sound like it went on for some time. Then the narrator closes the thread and leaves him there.
The demon takes off the disguise and enjoys himself, and the taunt he chooses is the sharpest available: both eyes wide open, and you still could not see me. Then he names himself -- 聖嬰大王, the Sage-Child King -- and sentences Bajie to a few days on the beam and then the steamer, to be served to the imps as a snack with drinks. It is the same fate, in the same words, that he planned for Tripitaka.
Bajie's reply is helpless and entirely undefeated. Hung in a sack, he calls the demon ill-mannered and wishes a swollen-headed plague on the whole household, and keeps shouting long enough that the narrator has to cut away. It is funny, and it is also the only form of resistance left to him.
The position is now as bad as the chapter has made it. The master is captive, one disciple is scorched and cannot fly, the second is in a bag waiting to be cooked, and the errand for help has been intercepted. Only Sha Monk and a horse remain outside, and Wukong has not yet worked out that anything has gone wrong.