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第七十三回
情qíng因yīn舊jiù恨hèn生shēng災zāi毒dú
心xīn主zhǔ遭zāo魔mó幸xìng破pò光guāng

Passion from an Old Grudge Breeds a Venomous Calamity · The Mind-Lord Meets a Demon and Is Saved by the Breaking Light

丟開解數
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

丟開解數 He Let Loose His Moves

他tā兩liǎng個gè廝sī罵mà廝sī打dǎ,早zǎo驚jīng動dòng那nà裡lǐ邊biān的de女nǚ怪guài。他tā七qī個gè一yì擁yōng出chū來lái,叫jiào道dào:「師shī兄xiōng且qiě莫mò勞láo心xīn,待dài小xiǎo妹mèi子zi拿ná他tā。」行xíng者zhě見jiàn了le,越yuè生shēng嗔chēn怒nù,雙shuāng手shǒu掄lūn鐵tiě棒bàng,丟diū開kāi解xiè數shù,滾gǔn將jiāng進jìn去qù亂luàn打dǎ。他tā两liǎng个gè厮sī骂mà厮sī打dǎ,早zǎo惊jīng动dòng那nà里lǐ边biān的de女nǚ怪guài。他tā七qī个gè一yì拥yōng出chū来lái,叫jiào道dào:「师shī兄xiōng且qiě莫mò劳láo心xīn,待dài小xiǎo妹mèi子zi拿ná他tā。」行xíng者zhě见jiàn了le,越yuè生shēng嗔chēn怒nù,双shuāng手shǒu抡lūn铁tiě棒bàng,丢diū开kāi解xiè数shù,滚gǔn将jiāng进jìn去qù乱luàn打dǎ。


逐句解 Line by line

他tā兩liǎng個gè廝sī罵mà廝sī打dǎ,早zǎo驚jīng動dòng那nà裡lǐ邊biān的de女nǚ怪guài。 他tā两liǎng个gè厮sī骂mà厮sī打dǎ,早zǎo惊jīng动dòng那nà里lǐ边biān的de女nǚ怪guài。

The two of them cursed and struck at each other, and the noise soon roused the women-monsters inside.

廝 is a reciprocal prefix — 廝罵 is cursing each other, 廝打 is fighting each other — and it survives today in 廝殺, to fight it out. This is the second time in the chapter that a noise at the front of the house has brought the back of the house running; the first was two boys washing teacups.

他tā七qī個gè一yì擁yōng出chū來lái,叫jiào道dào:「師shī兄xiōng且qiě莫mò勞láo心xīn,待dài小xiǎo妹mèi子zi拿ná他tā。」 他tā七qī个gè一yì拥yōng出chū来lái,叫jiào道dào:「师shī兄xiōng且qiě莫mò劳láo心xīn,待dài小xiǎo妹mèi子zi拿ná他tā。」

The seven of them came swarming out. "Elder brother, don't trouble yourself," they called. "Let your little sisters take him."

一擁 is to surge forward all at once, in a crowd — the 擁 of 擁擠, crowded. 莫勞心, don't tax your mind, is a polite formula for don't put yourself out. They are still observing the seniority in the middle of a brawl.

行xíng者zhě見jiàn了le,越yuè生shēng嗔chēn怒nù,雙shuāng手shǒu掄lūn鐵tiě棒bàng,丟diū開kāi解xiè數shù,滾gǔn將jiāng進jìn去qù亂luàn打dǎ。 行xíng者zhě见jiàn了le,越yuè生shēng嗔chēn怒nù,双shuāng手shǒu抡lūn铁tiě棒bàng,丢diū开kāi解xiè数shù,滚gǔn将jiāng进jìn去qù乱luàn打dǎ。

Pilgrim, seeing this, grew angrier still. He swung the iron cudgel in both hands, let loose his whole repertoire, and went rolling in among them, laying about him.

解數 is the term of art here: the set of moves and stances a martial artist has been taught, his whole repertoire. It survives in 渾身解數, everything one has got. The reading is xiè, not the jiě of untying — 現漢 files the compound as xièshù, and both 康熙 and 中原音韻 record two bands for the character. 掄 is to swing a heavy thing in a wide arc, and 滾將進去 is literally rolling in.


總評 Commentary

The chapter's genre change completes here. Twenty passages ago this was a story about tea; now it is a brawl in a courtyard with seven women pouring out of a back room shouting that they will handle it. The vocabulary has changed with it — 廝打, 一擁, 掄, 亂打 — all of it physical, none of it polite.

The women's line is the funny one. 師兄且莫勞心 — don't trouble yourself, elder brother — is exactly what you say when an older relative starts to get up from his chair to do something you would rather do yourself. They are offering to take over a murder as a courtesy.

And Pilgrim goes in rolling. 解數 is the giveaway that the book is now writing in its combat register: this is the vocabulary of the martial-arts storyteller, and a Ming audience would have recognised the switch instantly, the way a modern reader knows when a thriller stops describing and starts choreographing.