第五回 · 賺哄真仙 Tricking the true immortal — Journey to the West

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賺哄真仙 Tricking the true immortal

那nà赤chì腳jiǎo大dà仙xiān覿dí面miàn撞zhuàng見jiàn大dà聖shèng，大dà聖shèng低dī頭tóu定dìng計jì，賺zhuàn哄hǒng真zhēn仙xiān，他tā要yào暗àn去qù赴fù會huì，卻què問wèn：「老lǎo道dào何hé往wǎng？」大dà仙xiān道dào：「蒙méng王wáng母mǔ見jiàn招zhāo，去qù赴fù蟠pán桃táo嘉jiā會huì。」大dà聖shèng道dào：「老lǎo道dào不bù知zhī。玉yù帝dì因yīn老lǎo孫sūn觔jīn斗dǒu雲yún疾jí，著zhuó老lǎo孫sūn五wǔ路lù邀yāo請qǐng列liè位wèi，先xiān至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià演yǎn禮lǐ，後hòu方fāng去qù赴fù宴yàn。」大dà仙xiān是shì個gè光guāng明míng正zhèng大dà之zhī人rén，就jiù以yǐ他tā的de誑kuáng語yǔ作zuò真zhēn，道dào：「常cháng年nián就jiù在zài瑤yáo池chí演yǎn禮lǐ謝xiè恩ēn，如rú何hé先xiān去qù通tōng明míng殿diàn演yǎn禮lǐ，方fāng去qù瑤yáo池chí赴fù會huì？」無wú奈nài，只zhǐ得dé撥bō轉zhuǎn祥xiáng雲yún，徑jìng往wǎng通tōng明míng殿diàn去qù了le。那nà赤chì脚jiǎo大dà仙xiān觌dí面miàn撞zhuàng见jiàn大dà圣shèng，大dà圣shèng低dī头tóu定dìng计jì，赚zhuàn哄hǒng真zhēn仙xiān，他tā要yào暗àn去qù赴fù会huì，却què问wèn：「老lǎo道dào何hé往wǎng？」大dà仙xiān道dào：「蒙méng王wáng母mǔ见jiàn招zhāo，去qù赴fù蟠pán桃táo嘉jiā会huì。」大dà圣shèng道dào：「老lǎo道dào不bù知zhī。玉yù帝dì因yīn老lǎo孙sūn觔jīn斗dǒu云yún疾jí，著zhuó老lǎo孙sūn五wǔ路lù邀yāo请qǐng列liè位wèi，先xiān至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià演yǎn礼lǐ，后hòu方fāng去qù赴fù宴yàn。」大dà仙xiān是shì个gè光guāng明míng正zhèng大dà之zhī人rén，就jiù以yǐ他tā的de诳kuáng语yǔ作zuò真zhēn，道dào：「常cháng年nián就jiù在zài瑶yáo池chí演yǎn礼lǐ谢xiè恩ēn，如rú何hé先xiān去qù通tōng明míng殿diàn演yǎn礼lǐ，方fāng去qù瑶yáo池chí赴fù会huì？」无wú奈nài，只zhǐ得dé拨bō转zhuǎn祥xiáng云yún，径jìng往wǎng通tōng明míng殿diàn去qù了le。

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那nà赤chì腳jiǎo大dà仙xiān覿dí面miàn撞zhuàng見jiàn大dà聖shèng，大dà聖shèng低dī頭tóu定dìng計jì，賺zhuàn哄hǒng真zhēn仙xiān，他tā要yào暗àn去qù赴fù會huì，卻què問wèn：「老lǎo道dào何hé往wǎng？」那nà赤chì脚jiǎo大dà仙xiān觌dí面miàn撞zhuàng见jiàn大dà圣shèng，大dà圣shèng低dī头tóu定dìng计jì，赚zhuàn哄hǒng真zhēn仙xiān，他tā要yào暗àn去qù赴fù会huì，却què问wèn：「老lǎo道dào何hé往wǎng？」

The Barefoot Immortal came face to face with the Great Sage. The Great Sage, lowering his head, laid a scheme to gull the true immortal, for he meant to slip in to the feast unseen; and so he asked: 'Where is the venerable one bound?'

大dà仙xiān道dào：「蒙méng王wáng母mǔ見jiàn招zhāo，去qù赴fù蟠pán桃táo嘉jiā會huì。」大dà仙xiān道dào：「蒙méng王wáng母mǔ见jiàn招zhāo，去qù赴fù蟠pán桃táo嘉jiā会huì。」

The Immortal said: 'By the Queen Mother's gracious summons, I go to attend the fair Peach Feast.'

大dà聖shèng道dào：「老lǎo道dào不bù知zhī。玉yù帝dì因yīn老lǎo孫sūn觔jīn斗dǒu雲yún疾jí，著zhuó老lǎo孫sūn五wǔ路lù邀yāo請qǐng列liè位wèi，先xiān至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià演yǎn禮lǐ，後hòu方fāng去qù赴fù宴yàn。」大dà圣shèng道dào：「老lǎo道dào不bù知zhī。玉yù帝dì因yīn老lǎo孙sūn觔jīn斗dǒu云yún疾jí，著zhuó老lǎo孙sūn五wǔ路lù邀yāo请qǐng列liè位wèi，先xiān至zhì通tōng明míng殿diàn下xià演yǎn礼lǐ，后hòu方fāng去qù赴fù宴yàn。」

The Great Sage said: 'The venerable one has not heard. Because old Sun's somersault-cloud is swift, the Jade Emperor has ordered old Sun to ride all five roads and invite the assembled lords first to the Hall of Penetrating Brightness to rehearse the ceremony, and only afterward go to the banquet.'

觔斗雲 (jīn dǒu yún): the somersault-cloud — 斗 here is dǒu. 著 here is zhuó, causative "ordered."

大dà仙xiān是shì個gè光guāng明míng正zhèng大dà之zhī人rén，就jiù以yǐ他tā的de誑kuáng語yǔ作zuò真zhēn，道dào：「常cháng年nián就jiù在zài瑤yáo池chí演yǎn禮lǐ謝xiè恩ēn，如rú何hé先xiān去qù通tōng明míng殿diàn演yǎn禮lǐ，方fāng去qù瑤yáo池chí赴fù會huì？」大dà仙xiān是shì个gè光guāng明míng正zhèng大dà之zhī人rén，就jiù以yǐ他tā的de诳kuáng语yǔ作zuò真zhēn，道dào：「常cháng年nián就jiù在zài瑶yáo池chí演yǎn礼lǐ谢xiè恩ēn，如rú何hé先xiān去qù通tōng明míng殿diàn演yǎn礼lǐ，方fāng去qù瑶yáo池chí赴fù会huì？」

The Immortal, being an open and upright man, took his lying words for truth and said: 'In ordinary years we rehearse the rite and give thanks at the Jade Pool itself — how is it that now we first go to the Hall of Penetrating Brightness to rehearse, and only then to the Jade Pool for the feast?'

無wú奈nài，只zhǐ得dé撥bō轉zhuǎn祥xiáng雲yún，徑jìng往wǎng通tōng明míng殿diàn去qù了le。无wú奈nài，只zhǐ得dé拨bō转zhuǎn祥xiáng云yún，径jìng往wǎng通tōng明míng殿diàn去qù了le。

Having no choice, he could only turn his auspicious cloud about and head straight for the Hall of Penetrating Brightness.

總評 Commentary

The mind that could not win a seat by right now takes the assembly by fraud. The 心猿’s first weapon is not the cudgel but the lie — 賺哄真仙, "to gull the true immortal" — and it works precisely because of the Barefoot Immortal’s virtue: 大仙是個光明正大之人，就以他的誑語作真 ("being an open and upright man, he took the lying words for truth"). Integrity is defenceless against a deceit it cannot imagine.

The detail is a small parable of how disorder enters an ordered cosmos. The true immortal even reasons about the anomaly — 常年就在瑤池…如何先去通明殿 — his mind notes that the protocol has changed; yet he defers to the supposed decree rather than to his own sound sense. With one invented order the 心猿 redirects the whole traffic of heaven, and the Jade Pool is left empty for the taking. In the inner-alchemical register this is the unstilled mind’s particular gift: it cannot create, but it can divert — sending the genuine powers off on a false errand while it helps itself to the elixir.