Canonical Classics ← 第六十六回
第六十六回
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The Gods Fall Victim to a Vicious Hand · Maitreya Binds the Demon Fiend

待老孫去請
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

待老孫去請 Let Old Monkey Go And Ask

jīnqīnqǐngláishīēnxiāngzhùzhǔnzhuōguàijiùshī。」xíngzhěxīndào:「qiěbǎoshīlìngshāngdàilǎosūnqǐng。」jīnqīnqǐngláishīēnxiāngzhùzhǔnzhuōguàijiùshī。」xíngzhěxīndào:「qiěbǎoshīlìngshāngdàilǎosūnqǐng。」


逐句解 Line by line

jīnqīnqǐngláishīēnxiāngzhùzhǔnzhuōguàijiùshī。」 jīnqīnqǐngláishīēnxiāngzhùzhǔnzhuōguàijiùshī。」

Go yourself now and ask him; if he comes and bestows his help, you may certainly take the fiend and rescue your master."

is xiāng, mutually, in 相助. 親去 — go yourself — matters, because the last borrowing was arranged in person too, and the one before it by written petition.

xíngzhěxīndào:「qiěbǎoshīlìngshāngdàilǎosūnqǐng。」 xíngzhěxīndào:「qiěbǎoshīlìngshāngdàilǎosūnqǐng。」

Pilgrim was glad at heart and said, "Do you go and guard my master, and let no harm come to him, while Old Monkey goes to ask."

心喜, glad at heart, against the weeping of a few segments ago. The scene has moved him from tears to cheerfulness without anything changing except the availability of one more name.


總評 Commentary

The exchange closes by sending each party back to his post: the Merit Star to the invisible guard he was defending himself for keeping, Monkey to another journey of petition. Nothing has been solved and both of them are satisfied.

They will certainly take the fiend and rescue your master — that is the second confident promise in this chapter, and the first was made about troops now lying roped in a cellar. The novel lets the pattern be visible without commenting on it.