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攢了些私房 A Hidden Nest Egg
我前日曾聞得沙僧說，他攢了些私房，不知可有否？等我且嚇他一嚇看。」我前日曾闻得沙僧说，他攒了些私房，不知可有否？等我且吓他一吓看。」
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我前日曾聞得沙僧說，他攢了些私房，不知可有否？
我前日曾闻得沙僧说，他攒了些私房，不知可有否？
The other day I heard Sha Wujing say he has put a little by in private. I wonder whether it is so.
得 keeps dé in 聞得, after a verb of perceiving. 攢 reads zǎn here — to put by, to hoard — not the cuán of gathering things together. 私房 is money kept back from the household.
等我且嚇他一嚇看。」
等我且吓他一吓看。」
Let me give him a fright and see."
嚇他一嚇 puts the verb either side of the counter, the vernacular way of saying just the once, briefly.
Private money is a real institution and the word for it is exact: funds a member of a household keeps back from the common purse. Wives kept it, sons kept it, and monks were certainly not supposed to. For Bajie to have a hoard is a small violation of his vows and a large violation of the pilgrimage's arrangements.
Notice where the information came from. Sha Wujing mentioned it, in passing, some time ago, and Wukong filed it. He has been carrying this piece of leverage around waiting for an occasion, and a brother tied up in a pond is the occasion.
The plan he settles on is a fright rather than a rescue, and it should be read alongside the promise he made his master some four hundred characters earlier. Wukong is going to get Bajie out. First he is going to run an experiment.