且休巧舌 Spare Me Your Glib Tongue
牛王喝道：「且休巧舌。我聞你鬧了天宮，被佛祖降壓在五行山下，近解脫天災，保護唐僧西天見佛求經，怎麼在號山枯松澗火雲洞把我小兒牛聖嬰害了？正在這裡惱你，你卻怎麼又來尋我？」大聖作禮道：「長兄勿得誤怪小弟。牛王喝道：「且休巧舌。我闻你闹了天宫，被佛祖降压在五行山下，近解脱天灾，保护唐僧西天见佛求经，怎么在号山枯松涧火云洞把我小儿牛圣婴害了？正在这里恼你，你却怎么又来寻我？」大圣作礼道：「长兄勿得误怪小弟。
逐句解 Line by line
The Bull King shouted, "Spare me your glib tongue. I hear that you made havoc in Heaven and were pressed down by the Buddha beneath the Mountain of Five Phases; that of late you were loosed from that celestial calamity, and now guard the Tang Monk westward to see the Buddha and seek scriptures. How is it, then, that at the Fire-Cloud Cave by the Withered Pine Ravine on Mount Hao you destroyed my little son, the Bull Sage Boy?"
喝 is hè, to shout. 佛 appears twice in this sentence and is held at fó at both — a house ruling worth stating, because dictionaries will offer fú for the second. 降 is jiàng, sent down from above, not xiáng, to subdue. 小兒 takes ér, the meaning-bearing syllable.
"I am at this moment nursing my anger against you here. How is it that you come seeking me into the bargain?"
正在這裡惱你 places the grievance in the present tense and in this spot: it is not an old score but a live one, and the Great Sage has walked straight into it.
The Great Sage made his bow and said, "Elder brother, do not blame your younger brother wrongly."
勿得 is the literary "do not," and its 得 is dé. 誤怪 is to blame in error, and the choice of word frames the defence as a correction of fact rather than a plea for mercy.
The Bull King's charge is laid out as a biography, and the sequence matters. Havoc in Heaven; five hundred years under the mountain; release; the escort of the Tang Monk westward — and then, at the end of that whole recital, the one item that touches his own house. The structure says plainly that he has been following the Great Sage's career and waiting for the part that concerns him.
It is the first time in the novel that the Red Boy affair has been put to the Great Sage by the boy's father. The episode ended with the child subdued by Guanyin and taken into her service, and the narrative treated that as a deliverance. Here the same events are described in one word — 害, destroyed — and we are obliged to hold both accounts in mind at once.
The Great Sage's reply concedes nothing at all and asks only that the blame be filed against the right party. 誤怪 — blamed in error — is a lawyer's word, and the two passages that follow are the case it announces.