欺心戲我 Are You Mocking Me
行者聽言，眼中流淚。那女子見了，作怒道：「你甚無知，我為丈夫煩惱生悲，你怎麼淚眼愁眉，欺心戲我？」行者听言，眼中流泪。那女子见了，作怒道：「你甚无知，我为丈夫烦恼生悲，你怎么泪眼愁眉，欺心戏我？」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim heard this, and the tears came into his eyes.
Eight characters, no adverb, no comment. 中 is zhōng, inside — the tears in his eyes rather than on his face. The last time the text said this of him was 221 characters earlier, coming out of the ground.
The woman saw it and rounded on him angrily. "How ignorant you are! I am grieving in sorrow for my husband — what do you mean by these wet eyes and this long face, playing false and mocking me?"
⚠ 甚 is shèn here, meaning very — and this is the second and last of only two in the chapter that are the adverb. The other, 是甚人 a moment ago, is the interrogative shén. Two readings of one character, in one conversation, a dozen characters apart, and nothing in the writing tells them apart. 為 is wèi, on account of. 欺心 is to act against your own conscience — literally to cheat your heart.
She accuses him of putting on grief to mock her, and from where she stands it is the obvious reading. A stranger stops a widow on the road, asks who she is crying for, and then produces tears of his own. Anyone would take that as mimicry.
欺心 is the sharp word. It does not mean lying to somebody else; it means cheating your own heart — performing a feeling you do not have. It is the exact charge to level at someone whose sympathy looks theatrical, and it happens to be the one thing Pilgrim is not doing here.
The irony runs both ways and the chapter is enjoying it. She is accusing him of faking grief while faking grief. He is being sincere for once in his life and being called a liar for it. And neither of them yet knows what the other is.