剝皮剉骨 He Swears to Flay Him
羅剎搥著胸膛罵道：「那潑猴賺了我的寶貝，現出原身走了。氣殺我也！」牛王道：「夫人保重，勿得心焦。等我趕上猢猻，奪了寶貝，剝了他皮，剉碎他骨，擺出他的心肝，與你出氣。」罗刹搥着胸膛骂道：「那泼猴赚了我的宝贝，现出原身走了。气杀我也！」牛王道：「夫人保重，勿得心焦。等我赶上猢狲，夺了宝贝，剥了他皮，剉碎他骨，摆出他的心肝，与你出气。」
逐句解 Line by line
The Rākṣasī beat her breast and railed, "That foul monkey has swindled me out of my treasure and gone off in his own shape again. I am vexed to death!"
搥著 takes the continuous zhe. This is the third and last time 氣殺我也 is said in the chapter, and all three belong to her — twice at the unmasking, once here.
The Bull King said, "Take care of yourself, madam, and do not fret your heart."
重 is zhòng in 保重, take care of yourself. 勿得 takes dé. It is the only kind word he speaks in the chapter, and he speaks it to the wife he abandoned.
"Let me overtake the ape, take back the treasure, strip off his hide, hack his bones to pieces, set out his heart and liver, and give you your revenge."
Five verbs of dismemberment in a row. The household's rhetoric of vengeance has been escalating all chapter — the Great Sage promised the Jade-Faced Princess a beating, the false husband promised the Rākṣasī ten thousand pieces — and this is where it arrives.
His comfort and his threat sit in the same speech, and the second is very much longer than the first. Take care of yourself, do not fret your heart, runs to eight characters; the flaying, the hacking, the heart and liver set out for her to look at, runs to twenty-eight. The proportion is the characterisation.
It is also the first time in the chapter that the Bull King has committed himself to anything on this wife's behalf. He defended her respectability to the Jade-Faced Princess, and apologised to the Jade-Faced Princess, and armed himself over the Jade-Faced Princess's honour. Here he arms himself for the Rākṣasī — and it is worth noticing that what has finally moved him is a theft.