嘴不尖啊 My Snout Is Not Pointed
行者暗想道：「這個嘴好的變尖了些了。」即低頭，把手侮著嘴揉一揉道：「我的嘴不尖啊。」真個就不尖了。行者暗想道：「这个嘴好的变尖了些了。」即低头，把手侮着嘴揉一揉道：「我的嘴不尖啊。」真个就不尖了。
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim thought to himself, "This snout of mine has come out a little too pointed."
變尖了些了 is came out a bit too pointed — a craftsman's complaint about his own work. He is not alarmed; he is dissatisfied with the finish.
Lowering his head at once, he cupped his hand over his snout and gave it a rub. "My snout is not pointed."
侮著嘴 has 著 as zhe, the hand held over the mouth throughout. 揉一揉 is one rub, the numeral inside the doubled verb. And then a flat denial of a thing everybody can see.
And it really was not pointed any more.
Six characters from the narrator, deadpan, confirming that the denial has been made true retrospectively. 真個 is truly, really — the storyteller vouching, as he did for the mountain grazing the stars.
This is the best joke in the chapter. Told his snout is too pointed, Pilgrim rubs it, says it is not pointed, and the narrator confirms that it is now not pointed.
The sequence matters. He does not fix his face and then deny it; he denies it and the face complies. The lie comes first and reality is brought into line afterwards.
And the narrator's six flat characters are what make it funny rather than merely magical. No description of the change, no spell — just a hand over the mouth, a contradiction, and a note from the management that the contradiction is now accurate.