磕頭撞腦 She Beats Her Head Against Him
羅剎女扯住牛王，磕頭撞腦，口裡罵道：「潑老天殺的！怎樣這般不謹慎，著那猢猻偷了金睛獸，變作你的模樣，到此騙我？」牛王切齒道：「猢猻那廂去了？」罗刹女扯住牛王，磕头撞脑，口里骂道：「泼老天杀的！怎样这般不谨慎，着那猢狲偷了金睛兽，变作你的模样，到此骗我？」牛王切齿道：「猢狲那厢去了？」
逐句解 Line by line
The Rākṣasī seized hold of the Bull King, knocked her head and struck her brow against him, and railed at him, "You foul old heaven-slain thing!"
剎 is chà. 磕頭撞腦 looks like the language of kowtowing and is not: it is a vernacular phrase for battering yourself about in a frenzy. 天殺的 — heaven-slain — is about as coarse as this novel's abuse gets.
"How could you be so careless as to let that ape steal the golden-eyed beast, turn himself into your likeness, and come here and cheat me?"
著 is the causative zhuó here — you let him do it — not the continuous reading. 模樣 takes mú. She blames her husband for a deception practised on her, which is unjust and psychologically exact.
The Bull King said through his teeth, "Which way has the ape gone?"
切 is qiè in 切齒, to gnash the teeth. 那廂 is a question again, so 那 is nǎ. He asks the same thing for the second time and gets no answer for the second time.
Her fury is aimed at the wrong person and the novel lets it stand. It was not the Bull King who stole the beast or wore his face; his offence is to have been impersonable in the first place, and to have left the household to itself for two years while he lived elsewhere. 怎樣這般不謹慎 — how could you be so careless — is unfair as an accusation and exact as a description.
What she does not say is more telling than what she does. She does not mention the wine, the caressing, the endearments, or the fact that she handed the fan over herself after explaining how to work it. The account she gives her husband is that the ape stole his beast and came and cheated her, and every word of it is true.