極好射獵 The Prince Who Loved To Hunt
行者聞言，急欠身道：「菩薩反說了，他在這裡欺君騙后，敗俗傷風，與那國王生災，卻說是消災，何也？」菩薩道：「你不知之。當時朱紫國先王在位之時，這個王還做東宮太子，未曾登基。他年幼間，極好射獵。行者闻言，急欠身道：「菩萨反说了，他在这里欺君骗后，败俗伤风，与那国王生灾，却说是消灾，何也？」菩萨道：「你不知之。当时朱紫国先王在位之时，这个王还做东宫太子，未曾登基。他年幼间，极好射猎。
逐句解 Line by line
Hearing this, Pilgrim straightened up quickly and said, "The Bodhisattva has it backwards.
反說 is to say the opposite — he is telling a Bodhisattva to her face that she has the case inverted. 欠身 is to rise part-way from a bow, which is what a man does when he is about to disagree.
"Here he has cheated a sovereign and swindled a consort, corrupted morals and injured decency,
Four four-character charges in a row, and every one belongs to the language of a formal indictment. 后 is hòu, a queen consort.
"bringing calamity down on that king — and you call it dispelling calamity. How so?"
The whole objection turns on two characters that differ by one: 生災, to breed a disaster, against 消災, to dissolve one. He has taken her word and given it back with the verb reversed.
The Bodhisattva said, "You do not know the whole of it.
Seven characters, and no defence — she simply says he lacks the information. 不 keeps bù before the level tone of 知.
"In the days when the former king of Purpuria was on the throne, the present king was still crown prince in the Eastern Palace and had not yet come to the throne. In his youth he was very fond of hunting.
子 is zǐ here, a full syllable — 太子 is the crown prince, the second in this chapter after Nezha. 東宮 is the Eastern Palace, where the heir lived, and it stands for the office. 還 is hái, still.
生災 against 消災 is the argument of the chapter reduced to one character. Wukong takes the Bodhisattva's word for what the fiend has been doing — dispelling a calamity — and hands it back with the verb reversed: he has been breeding one. The two phrases differ by a single character and mean opposite things.
His indictment is drawn up in proper form. 欺君騙后，敗俗傷風 — four four-character charges, each of a kind that would appear in a real memorial to a throne: deceiving the sovereign, defrauding the consort, corrupting custom, injuring decency. He is not shouting. He is reading out a charge sheet.
Her reply is the flattest thing in the chapter: 你不知之, you do not know. No counter-argument, no defence of the fiend, just a statement that he is missing facts — and then she starts, of all places, with a hunting trip taken by a prince who had not yet become king.