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劈面相迎 Do Not Run Taste My Cudgel
我把你這誑上欺君之怪，不要走，吃外公一棒。」那妖慌了手腳，即閃身躲過，使宣花斧劈面相迎。我把你这诳上欺君之怪，不要走，吃外公一棒。」那妖慌了手脚，即闪身躲过，使宣花斧劈面相迎。
逐句解 Line by line
我把你這誑上欺君之怪，不要走，吃外公一棒。」
我把你这诳上欺君之怪，不要走，吃外公一棒。」
"You fiend who deceives his superiors and cheats his lord — do not run. Take a taste of Grandfather's cudgel."
吃…一棒 is to eat a blow, the standard vernacular threat. He signs off with 外公 one more time. 一 takes yí before the falling tone of 棒.
那妖慌了手腳，即閃身躲過，
那妖慌了手脚，即闪身躲过，
The fiend lost his head and his hands, dodged aside,
慌了手腳 is the same set phrase Wukong used of himself when the bells went off in his hands — hands and feet thrown into confusion. Now it is the fiend's turn.
使宣花斧劈面相迎。
使宣花斧劈面相迎。
and met him face to face with the flowered axe.
相 is xiāng, mutually — 相迎 is to meet each other. 劈面 is straight in the face, head-on.
The argument ends the way arguments in this novel end. 不要走，吃外公一棒 — do not run, take a taste of Grandfather's cudgel — and the insult he invented at the gate is still doing service in the last four characters before the fighting starts.
慌了手腳 is a small piece of symmetry. Wukong used exactly this phrase about himself when the bells went off and he dropped them, and here it lands on the fiend at the first swing. The novel is fond of handing a character's own vocabulary to his opponent.
Then thirty-seven characters after the shouting begins, the axe comes up. Everything in this chapter so far has been achieved by disguise, wine, insects and conversation; this is the first blow struck in the open.