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領兵返河 岸上候師
Leading Troops Back to the River; Waiting on the Bank
那老龍苦留不住，又見龍女捧茶來獻。行者立飲他一盞香茶，別了老龍，隨與摩昂領兵，離了西海，早到黑水河中。行者道：「賢太子，好生捉怪，我上岸去也。」摩昂道：「大聖寬心，小龍子將他拿上來先見了大聖，懲治了他罪名，把師父送上來，才敢帶回海內，見我家父。」行者欣然相別，捏了避水訣，跳出波津，徑到了東邊崖上。沙僧與那河神迎著道：「師兄，你去時從空而去，怎麼回來卻自河內而回？」行者把那打死魚精，得簡帖，怪龍王，與太子同領兵來之事，備陳了一遍。沙僧十分歡喜，都立在岸邊，候接師父不題。那老龙苦留不住，又见龙女捧茶来献。行者立饮他一盏香茶，别了老龙，随与摩昂领兵，离了西海，早到黑水河中。行者道：「贤太子，好生捉怪，我上岸去也。」摩昂道：「大圣宽心，小龙子将他拿上来先见了大圣，惩治了他罪名，把师父送上来，才敢带回海内，见我家父。」行者欣然相别，捏了避水诀，跳出波津，径到了东边崖上。沙僧与那河神迎着道：「师兄，你去时从空而去，怎么回来却自河内而回？」行者把那打死鱼精，得简帖，怪龙王，与太子同领兵来之事，备陈了一遍。沙僧十分欢喜，都立在岸边，候接师父不题。
逐句解 Line by line
那老龍苦留不住，又見龍女捧茶來獻。
那老龙苦留不住，又见龙女捧茶来献。
The old dragon pressed him hard to stay, in vain; and now the dragon-daughter brought tea to offer.
The 龍女, the dragon-daughter, appears for exactly one clause to carry in the tea and is never mentioned again.
行者立飲他一盞香茶，別了老龍，隨與摩昂領兵，離了西海，早到黑水河中。
行者立饮他一盏香茶，别了老龙，随与摩昂领兵，离了西海，早到黑水河中。
Pilgrim drank a single cup of fragrant tea standing, took leave of the old dragon, and led forth troops with Moang, quitting the Western Sea and soon reaching the Black-Water River.
立飲, to drink standing up. He takes the cup without sitting down - refusing the hospitality while accepting the courtesy, which is a precise piece of manners and entirely deliberate.
行者道：「賢太子，好生捉怪，我上岸去也。」
行者道：「贤太子，好生捉怪，我上岸去也。」
Pilgrim said, "Worthy prince, take good care to catch the fiend; I shall go up onto the bank."
And then he hands the fight to somebody else and goes ashore. For Pilgrim this is remarkable restraint; he does not throw a punch anywhere in this chapter.
摩昂道：「大聖寬心，小龍子將他拿上來先見了大聖，懲治了他罪名，把師父送上來，才敢帶回海內，見我家父。」
摩昂道：「大圣宽心，小龙子将他拿上来先见了大圣，惩治了他罪名，把师父送上来，才敢带回海内，见我家父。」
Moang said, "Set your mind at ease, Great Sage. Your little dragon will take him and bring him up to see you first, punish him for his crime, and send your master up before I dare carry him back to the sea to face my father."
小龍子 - "your little dragon" - is Moang copying his father's humble self-reference. He also sets out the order of business before starting: capture, present, punish, release the master, and only then take the prisoner home.
行者欣然相別，捏了避水訣，跳出波津，徑到了東邊崖上。
行者欣然相别，捏了避水诀，跳出波津，径到了东边崖上。
Pilgrim gladly parted from him, made the water-repelling sign, leapt out through the waves, and came straight to the eastern shore.
波津 pairs the waves with the crossing-place, a compound for the water's surface. The same hand sign that let him in lets him out.
沙僧與那河神迎著道：「師兄，你去時從空而去，怎麼回來卻自河內而回？」
沙僧与那河神迎着道：「师兄，你去时从空而去，怎么回来却自河内而回？」
Sha Monk and the river-god came to meet him: "Brother, you went off through the air — how is it you have come back out of the river instead?"
Sha Monk notices the change of element - you left through the air and came back out of the river - and the question exists so that the summary can follow.
行者把那打死魚精，得簡帖，怪龍王，與太子同領兵來之事，備陳了一遍。
行者把那打死鱼精，得简帖，怪龙王，与太子同领兵来之事，备陈了一遍。
Pilgrim recounted in full the matter of killing the fish-spirit, getting the note, calling the Dragon-King to account, and coming with the prince and his troops.
The third and last of Pilgrim's full recountings. All three are his, and each one closes off a stretch of action that he alone was present for.
沙僧十分歡喜，都立在岸邊，候接師父不題。
沙僧十分欢喜，都立在岸边，候接师父不题。
Sha Monk was overjoyed, and they all stood on the bank to await the master.
不題, "of this we say no more" - the storyteller putting the bank aside to follow the fight underwater. It answers the 且不題 near the opening of the chapter.
總評 Commentary
Pilgrim drinks one cup standing, declines the banquet, and comes back with the prince and five hundred troops. The small gesture of drinking without sitting down is doing real work: he accepts the courtesy and refuses the hospitality, which keeps the pardon a favour rather than a bargain.
What follows is more unusual than it looks. Pilgrim hands the fighting to Moang and climbs out onto the bank to wait. In a book where he normally insists on doing everything himself, he spends this entire chapter as a prosecutor rather than a combatant - and he is content to let the family discipline its own.