第六十回 · 大呼小叫 Crying Aloud in the Cave — Journey to the West

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大呼小叫 Crying Aloud in the Cave

遂suì而ér分fēn開kāi水shuǐ路lù，跳tiào出chū潭tán底dǐ，駕jià黃huáng雲yún，徑jìng至zhì翠cuì雲yún山shān芭bā蕉jiāo洞dòng。只zhǐ聽tīng得dé羅luó剎chà女nǚ跌diē腳jiǎo搥chuí胸xiōng，大dà呼hū小xiǎo叫jiào。推tuī開kāi門mén，又yòu見jiàn辟bì水shuǐ金jīn睛jīng獸shòu拴shuān在zài下xià邊biān。牛niú王wáng高gāo叫jiào：「夫fū人rén，孫sūn悟wù空kōng那nǎ廂xiāng去qù了le？」眾zhòng女nǚ童tóng看kàn見jiàn牛niú魔mó，一yì齊qí跪guì下xià道dào：「爺yé爺ye來lái了le？」遂suì而ér分fēn开kāi水shuǐ路lù，跳tiào出chū潭tán底dǐ，驾jià黄huáng云yún，径jìng至zhì翠cuì云yún山shān芭bā蕉jiāo洞dòng。只zhǐ听tīng得dé罗luó刹chà女nǚ跌diē脚jiǎo搥chuí胸xiōng，大dà呼hū小xiǎo叫jiào。推tuī开kāi门mén，又yòu见jiàn辟bì水shuǐ金jīn睛jīng兽shòu拴shuān在zài下xià边biān。牛niú王wáng高gāo叫jiào：「夫fū人rén，孙sūn悟wù空kōng那nǎ厢xiāng去qù了le？」众zhòng女nǚ童tóng看kàn见jiàn牛niú魔mó，一yì齐qí跪guì下xià道dào：「爷yé爷ye来lái了le？」

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遂suì而ér分fēn開kāi水shuǐ路lù，跳tiào出chū潭tán底dǐ，駕jià黃huáng雲yún，徑jìng至zhì翠cuì雲yún山shān芭bā蕉jiāo洞dòng。遂suì而ér分fēn开kāi水shuǐ路lù，跳tiào出chū潭tán底dǐ，驾jià黄huáng云yún，径jìng至zhì翠cuì云yún山shān芭bā蕉jiāo洞dòng。

So he parted the water-road, sprang out of the pool bottom, mounted a yellow cloud and went straight to the Banana-Leaf Cave on Kingfisher Cloud Mountain.

分 is fēn. He goes to the first wife's house rather than the second, where he has been living, because he has already worked out where the fan was taken from.

只zhǐ聽tīng得dé羅luó剎chà女nǚ跌diē腳jiǎo搥chuí胸xiōng，大dà呼hū小xiǎo叫jiào。只zhǐ听tīng得dé罗luó刹chà女nǚ跌diē脚jiǎo搥chuí胸xiōng，大dà呼hū小xiǎo叫jiào。

He heard only the Rākṣasī stamping her feet and beating her breast, crying aloud and calling out.

只聽得 takes dé. 剎 is chà. He arrives to a sound before a sight, which is exactly how the Great Sage arrived at this same door in the previous chapter.

推tuī開kāi門mén，又yòu見jiàn辟bì水shuǐ金jīn睛jīng獸shòu拴shuān在zài下xià邊biān。推tuī开kāi门mén，又yòu见jiàn辟bì水shuǐ金jīn睛jīng兽shòu拴shuān在zài下xià边biān。

He pushed the door open, and saw besides the water-averting golden-eyed beast tethered below.

辟 is bì, warding off. The beast is back where it belongs, tethered under the Bull King's own roof, and that single fact tells him the theft is finished and the thief has already gone.

牛niú王wáng高gāo叫jiào：「夫fū人rén，孫sūn悟wù空kōng那nǎ廂xiāng去qù了le？」牛niú王wáng高gāo叫jiào：「夫fū人rén，孙sūn悟wù空kōng那nǎ厢xiāng去qù了le？」

The Bull King called loudly, "Madam, which way has Sun Wukong gone?"

那廂 is a question — which way — so 那 is nǎ and not the pointing reading. He does not ask what happened. He already knows.

眾zhòng女nǚ童tóng看kàn見jiàn牛niú魔mó，一yì齊qí跪guì下xià道dào：「爺yé爺ye來lái了le？」众zhòng女nǚ童tóng看kàn见jiàn牛niú魔mó，一yì齐qí跪guì下xià道dào：「爷yé爷ye来lái了le？」

The serving-maids, seeing the Bull Demon, knelt down together and said, "Has our master come?"

The maids ask, where at the false Bull King's arrival they announced. The question mark is the source's own, and it is the household's first flicker of doubt in the whole chapter.

總評 Commentary

The homecoming is staged as a deliberate echo of the false one earlier in the chapter, and inverted at every point. Then the maids heard a voice and ran in to announce that the master was home; now they see him and ask whether he is. Then the Rākṣasī hurried to set her hair straight and came out to receive him; now he pushes the door open himself and finds her beating her breast.

The detail that does the work is the tethered beast. The Great Sage rode it here and left it, which means the theft is complete and the thief is gone, and the Bull King reads that off the archway before anybody tells him anything. His question is not what has happened but which way the man went.