供養誘人 Tempted by the Offerings
行者道:「這城裡果有一座三清觀,觀裡道士們修蘸,三清殿上有許多供養:饅頭足有斗大,燒果有五六十斤一個,襯飯無數,果品新鮮。和你受用去來。」那豬八戒睡夢裡聽見說吃好東西,就醒了,道:「哥哥,就不帶挈我些兒?」行者道:「兄弟,你要吃東西,不要大呼小叫,驚醒了師父,都跟我去。」行者道:「这城里果有一座三清观,观里道士们修蘸,三清殿上有许多供养:馒头足有斗大,烧果有五六十斤一个,衬饭无数,果品新鲜。和你受用去来。」那猪八戒睡梦里听见说吃好东西,就醒了,道:「哥哥,就不带挈我些儿?」行者道:「兄弟,你要吃东西,不要大呼小叫,惊醒了师父,都跟我去。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said: "In this city there is indeed a Three-Pure Abbey, where the Daoists are at their jiao-rite, and on the Three-Pure altar are many offerings: steamed buns a full dǒu across, roast pastries fifty or sixty catties apiece, side-dishes beyond count, and fruits fresh and new.
The inventory is aimed squarely at a pig, and it is all size. A 斗 is a grain measure of roughly ten liters, so a bun "a full dǒu across" is the size of a bucket; the 燒果, baked pastries, run to fifty or sixty catties apiece, a catty being about six hundred grams. A 蘸 — more usually written 醮 — is a Daoist offering-rite, the kind now in progress. 觀 is guàn twice, the abbey; 供 in 供養 is gòng, offerings laid before a god, not the gōng of supplying goods; 數 is shù; 一 is yí before 座 and 個.
Come treat yourself with me."
受用去來, come and enjoy yourself — the invitation repeated, because it worked.
That Zhu Bajie, hearing in his sleep of eating good things, woke at once: "Brother — won't you take me along too?"
He slept through his own name and woke at the word "eat." 帶挈, to take someone along with you and cut them in. 那 is nà; 兒 is the light er; 不 is bú before 帶.
Pilgrim said: "Little brother, if you want to eat, don't shout and yell and wake the master — all of you follow me."
One condition only, and it marks the whole expedition as a boys' escapade: do not wake the master. 大呼小叫, hollering and yelling, is still exactly what a Chinese parent says to a noisy child. 不 is bú before 要; 都 is dōu.
The bait is aimed and it lands exactly where aimed. Bajie sleeps through Sha Monk being woken and comes round instantly at "good things to eat," and his first words are a plea not to be left out.
Wukong's inventory is all scale — buns the size of a bucket, pastries by the fifty catties, side-dishes past counting — and his one condition marks the whole thing as a schoolboy raid: do not wake the master. The three set off, and the chapter's closing sequence begins.