潑夯豕彘 Rascally And Clumsy Swine
那九頭蟲將公主安藏在內,急取月牙鏟,趕至前宮,喝道:「潑夯豕彘!怎敢欺心驚吾眷族?」那九头虫将公主安藏在内,急取月牙铲,赶至前宫,喝道:「泼夯豕彘!怎敢欺心惊吾眷族?」
逐句解 Line by line
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!
藏 at 安藏 is cáng, to stow away, not the zàng of the scripture-baskets. 將 is the disposal marker jiāng and 喝道 keeps 喝 at hè. 豕彘 doubles two literary words for pig where the vernacular would have said 豬 once, which is what makes it an insult rather than a description.
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. 吾 is the literary pronoun; 眷族 is the household by blood. No graph in this segment stands in any guard roster.
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.