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第六十九回
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The Mind-Lord by Night Compounds the Medicines · The Sovereign at the Banquet Discourses on the Demon

搖席破坐
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搖席破坐 Breaking Up A Good Banquet

zhūjièdào:「gezhèbānjiǔchīyáozuòdeqiěkànshénmeli?」guówángwénshuōqíngzhījièshìwèizuǐmìngdāngjiàguāntáiliǎngzhāngzhuōmiànkànjiǔzàiyāolóuwàihòudāiziquècáirǎngtóngshīshāsēngxiàodào:「fān。」zhūjièdào:「gezhèbānjiǔchīyáozuòdeqiěkànshénmeli?」guówángwénshuōqíngzhījièshìwèizuǐmìngdāngjiàguāntáiliǎngzhāngzhuōmiànkànjiǔzàiyāolóuwàihòudāiziquècáirǎngtóngshīshāsēngxiàodào:「fān。」


逐句解 Line by line

zhūjièdào:「ge zhūjièdào:「ge

Pig Eight Rules said, "Brother, you have no manners.

達禮 is understanding what propriety requires — and it is Eight Rules raising the point, two passages after he laughed out loud at a kneeling emperor. 哥哥 takes the light second syllable.

zhèbānjiǔchīyáozuòdeqiěkànshénmeli?」 zhèbānjiǔchīyáozuòdeqiěkànshénmeli?」

"Leaving royal wine like this undrunk, breaking up the table and upsetting the seating — and going off to look at what?"

搖席破坐 — shaking the mat and breaking up the seating — is precisely the offence against a banquet that he has just accused his brother of not understanding. is shén, the question word, and the light de.

guówángwénshuōqíngzhījièshìwèizuǐmìngdāngjiàguāntáiliǎngzhāngzhuōmiànkànjiǔzàiyāolóuwàihòu guówángwénshuōqíngzhījièshìwèizuǐmìngdāngjiàguāntáiliǎngzhāngzhuōmiànkànjiǔzàiyāolóuwàihòu

Hearing him, the king understood at once that Eight Rules was speaking for his stomach. He ordered the officer of the day to carry two vegetarian tables of display wine out and set them waiting beside the Demon-Avoiding Tower.

情知 — knowing perfectly well — grants the king a shrewdness the chapter has not shown him before. He does not answer the objection; he sends the tables after them. keeps wèi, on account of, and 當駕官 takes dāng, the officer on duty.

dāiziquècáirǎngtóngshīshāsēngxiàodào:「fān。」 dāiziquècáirǎngtóngshīshāsēngxiàodào:「fān。」

Only then did the idiot stop making a noise, and he said to his master and Sha the monk with a laugh, "We are moving the feast."

翻席 is to shift a banquet somewhere else, and he says it with evident satisfaction — a diplomatic crisis reclassified as a change of venue. stays rǎng.


總評 Commentary

Eight Rules objects, and — of all people — he objects on grounds of manners. Royal wine left undrunk, the mat shaken, the seating broken up, and all to go and look at something. This is the same character who laughed out loud at a kneeling emperor a few minutes ago.

The king reads him instantly. Knowing perfectly well that he was speaking for his stomach is the shrewdest line anybody gives this king in the chapter, and he acts on it instead of answering it: two tables are carried out to wait beside the tower.

The objection is withdrawn the moment the tables follow. "We are moving the feast" is Eight Rules reclassifying a diplomatic crisis as a change of venue.