第五十九回 · 紅磚壁下 Back To The Red Brick Wall — Journey to the West

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紅磚壁下 Back To The Red Brick Wall

這zhè大dà聖shèng撥bō轉zhuǎn雲yún頭tóu，徑jìng回huí東dōng路lù，霎shà時shí按àn落luò雲yún頭tóu，立lì在zài紅hóng磚zhuān壁bì下xià。八bā戒jiè見jiàn了le，歡huān喜xǐ道dào：「師shī父fù，師shī兄xiōng來lái了le，來lái了le。」三sān藏zàng即jí與yǔ本běn莊zhuāng老lǎo者zhě同tóng沙shā僧sēng出chū門mén接jiē著zhe，同tóng至zhì舍shè內nèi。这zhè大dà圣shèng拨bō转zhuǎn云yún头tóu，径jìng回huí东dōng路lù，霎shà时shí按àn落luò云yún头tóu，立lì在zài红hóng砖zhuān壁bì下xià。八bā戒jiè见jiàn了le，欢huān喜xǐ道dào：「师shī父fù，师shī兄xiōng来lái了le，来lái了le。」三sān藏zàng即jí与yǔ本běn庄zhuāng老lǎo者zhě同tóng沙shā僧sēng出chū门mén接jiē着zhe，同tóng至zhì舍shè内nèi。

逐句解 Line by line

這zhè大dà聖shèng撥bō轉zhuǎn雲yún頭tóu，徑jìng回huí東dōng路lù，霎shà時shí按àn落luò雲yún頭tóu，立lì在zài紅hóng磚zhuān壁bì下xià。这zhè大dà圣shèng拨bō转zhuǎn云yún头tóu，径jìng回huí东dōng路lù，霎shà时shí按àn落luò云yún头tóu，立lì在zài红hóng砖zhuān壁bì下xià。

This Great Sage turned his cloud about and went straight back along the eastward road. In a moment he set his cloud down and stood beneath the red brick wall.

紅磚壁 — the red brick of the farmstead, first described in those five clauses that every one of them contained 紅. The chapter brings him back to the same wall and names it by the same colour.

八bā戒jiè見jiàn了le，歡huān喜xǐ道dào：「師shī父fù，師shī兄xiōng來lái了le，來lái了le。」八bā戒jiè见jiàn了le，欢huān喜xǐ道dào：「师shī父fù，师shī兄xiōng来lái了le，来lái了le。」

Eight Rules saw him and said with delight, 'Master! Elder brother is back, he's back!'

來了，來了, doubled, in the pattern the chapter has been using for 渴了 and 有扇. Eight Rules gets the welcome, as he generally does when there is nothing difficult to be done.

三sān藏zàng即jí與yǔ本běn莊zhuāng老lǎo者zhě同tóng沙shā僧sēng出chū門mén接jiē著zhe，同tóng至zhì舍shè內nèi。三sān藏zàng即jí与yǔ本běn庄zhuāng老lǎo者zhě同tóng沙shā僧sēng出chū门mén接jiē着zhe，同tóng至zhì舍shè内nèi。

Tripitaka went out at once with the old man of the household and Sha Monk to meet him, and they came together into the house.

舍 is shè, a dwelling. 接著 marks the action as ongoing, zhe. The whole household turns out, which measures how much was riding on the errand.

總評 Commentary

The return is handled in three sentences and the geography does the work. He turns the cloud, goes back along the eastward road, sets down beneath the 紅磚壁 — the red brick wall of the farmstead, named by the same colour that saturated its first description.

Eight Rules gets the announcement, doubled in the chapter's habitual cadence: 來了，來了. He has done nothing since complaining about the heat, and the novel keeps handing him the welcomes.

Then the whole household comes out — Tripitaka, the old man, Sha Monk together. The turnout measures what was riding on the errand: eight hundred lǐ of fire, an impassable road, and a village whose harvests depend on the same object.