知疼著熱 She Who Knew His Pain
國王遂命玉聖宮取出。取出即遞與國王。國王見了,叫了幾聲「知疼著熱的娘娘」,遂遞與行者。行者接了,套在肐膊上。国王遂命玉圣宫取出。取出即递与国王。国王见了,叫了几声「知疼着热的娘娘」,遂递与行者。行者接了,套在肐膊上。
逐句解 Line by line
The king thereupon ordered the Jade Sage Palace Lady to fetch them out.
玉聖宮 appears here and nowhere else in the chapter, and she is given no introduction at all — the establishment has more consorts in it than the story has been mentioning, and one of them is sent to fetch the lost woman's jewellery.
She fetched them out and handed them straight to the king.
Seven characters, and 取出 is repeated from the sentence before it so that the fetching is told twice — ordered, then done — with nothing in between. She does not speak.
The king looked at them and cried out several times, "My lady, who knew my aches and felt my fevers!" — and then handed them to Pilgrim.
著 is zháo in 知疼著熱, a state come into rather than one held — the same reading as 著惱 and 著忙. The phrase is a set one for somebody who attends to another person's body when it hurts, and the king uses it as a form of address.
Pilgrim took them and slipped them onto his own arm.
套 is to slip a ring-shaped thing over something. Nine characters, no comment, and the bracelets are now on the arm of the person who intends to use them.
The handover takes four sentences and three pairs of hands: a consort fetches them, the king holds them, Wukong puts them on. Nobody but the king says anything, and what he says is addressed to none of the people in the room.
The form of address he cries out carries the weight of the scene. Not queen, not consort — she who knew my aches and felt my fevers, which is the language of nursing rather than of rank. The chapter has told us he is ill and never told us for how long; the phrase is describing a marriage rather than a court.
And the passage ends with no acknowledgement at all. The bracelets go onto Wukong's arm in nine characters, the king is left standing, and the chapter moves on. It is the same shape as the wine cup: the king produces something at real cost and it is simply taken.