動問地名 Asking the Kingdom's Name
行者道：「我貧道一則年幼，二則是遠方乍來，實是不知。煩二位道長將這裡地名，君王好道愛賢之事，細說一遍，足見同道之情。」道士說：「此城名喚車遲國。寶殿上君王與我們有親。」行者聞言，呵呵笑道：「想是道士做了皇帝？」他道：「不是。行者道：「我贫道一则年幼，二则是远方乍来，实是不知。烦二位道长将这里地名，君王好道爱贤之事，细说一遍，足见同道之情。」道士说：「此城名唤车迟国。宝殿上君王与我们有亲。」行者闻言，呵呵笑道：「想是道士做了皇帝？」他道：「不是。
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said: "This poor Daoist is, for one, young in years, and for another, newly come from a far country — truly I do not know.
He plays the ignorant newcomer to draw the story out, and pleads two excuses for not knowing. 一則 … 二則, "for one thing … for another," takes 一 in its counting sense, full yī. 乍來, newly arrived.
May I trouble you two masters to set out in full this place's name, and the matter of the king's love of the Dao and cherishing of the worthy? It would show the fellowship of those who share the Way."
將 is jiāng, taking hold of the matters named and setting them in front of the verb — "take all this and set it out for me." 長 is zhǎng; 好 is hào; 一 is yí before 遍.
The Daoist said: "This city is called the Cart-Slow Kingdom.
車遲國, Chēchí Guó, the Cart-Slow Kingdom — and the name has already been paid off before it is spoken, by five hundred men dragging carts up a cliff just outside the gate he is standing at.
The sovereign upon the treasure-hall is kin to us."
有親, to be kin — specifically, to have married into each other's families. The word is doing more work than it looks: a throne and an abbey that call each other family are a throne and an abbey with nothing between them.
Pilgrim, hearing this, laughed aloud: "Has a Daoist become emperor, then?"
The mock question is funnier than the Daoist knows. "Has a Daoist become emperor, then?" is exactly what has happened in every way that matters, and the man answers it with a flat "no" and then describes the thing he has just denied.
He said: "No.
不 becomes bú before the falling tone of 是.
Still in his beggar's costume, Wukong plays the newcomer who knows nothing, and the Daoist obligingly hands over the two facts the arc runs on: the kingdom is 車遲國, Cart-Slow, and its king is kin to the Daoists.
His mock question — has a Daoist become emperor, then? — gets a flat denial and then a description of exactly that. A court so far inside the abbey that the two call each other family has no line left between them, which is the scandal the chapter exists to expose.