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Two Monks Quell a Fiend and Make Havoc in the Dragon Palace · A Host of Sages Puts Down the Evil and Recovers the Treasure

潑夯豕彘
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

潑夯豕彘 Rascally And Clumsy Swine

jiǔtóuchóngjiānggōngzhǔāncángzàinèiyuèchǎngǎnzhìqiángōngdào:「hāngshǐzhìzěngǎnxīnjīngjuàn?」jiǔtóuchóngjiānggōngzhǔāncángzàinèiyuèchǎngǎnzhìqiángōngdào:「hāngshǐzhìzěngǎnxīnjīngjuàn?」


逐句解 Line by line

jiǔtóuchóngjiānggōngzhǔāncángzàinèiyuèchǎngǎnzhìqiángōngdào:「hāngshǐzhì jiǔtóuchóngjiānggōngzhǔāncángzàinèiyuèchǎngǎnzhìqiángōngdào:「hāngshǐzhì

The Nine-Headed Worm stowed the princess safely away within, snatched up his crescent-moon spade, hurried to the front hall and shouted, "You rascally, clumsy swine!

at 安藏 is cáng, to stow away, not the zàng of the scripture-baskets. is the disposal marker jiāng and 喝道 keeps at . 豕彘 doubles two literary words for pig where the vernacular would have said once, which is what makes it an insult rather than a description.

zěngǎnxīnjīngjuàn?」 zěngǎnxīnjīngjuàn?」

How dare you so far forget yourself as to terrify my household?"

A quote-closing tail at exactly eight graphs, and the threshold for joining one backwards is UNDER eight — the third time this chapter has landed on that boundary and been declined. 欺心 is to act against one's own conscience. is the literary pronoun; 眷族 is the household by blood. No graph in this segment stands in any guard roster.


總評 Commentary

The first thing the Nine-Headed Worm does is put the princess somewhere safe, and only then reach for his weapon. It is a small piece of characterisation the novel does not comment on: the creature that has been described as a monster twice over behaves, at the moment of attack, like the head of a family.

The insult is literary and the grievance is domestic. 豕彘 stacks two book-words for pig; 眷族 is the word for one's own kin. He is not accusing Eight Rules of theft or trespass but of frightening his relations, which is, on the facts, exactly what has happened.