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如重傷風
A Voice Like A Head Cold
沙僧急縱前迎著，高聲叫道：「師父說：那怪果送師父過山，教不要傷他命哩。」那怪聞說，連忙跪下，口裡嗚嗚的答應。原來被行者揪著鼻子，捏儾了，就如重傷風一般。沙僧急纵前迎着，高声叫道：「师父说：那怪果送师父过山，教不要伤他命哩。」那怪闻说，连忙跪下，口里呜呜的答应。原来被行者揪着鼻子，捏儾了，就如重伤风一般。
逐句解 Line by line
沙僧急縱前迎著，高聲叫道：「師父說：那怪果送師父過山，教不要傷他命哩。」
沙僧急纵前迎着，高声叫道：「师父说：那怪果送师父过山，教不要伤他命哩。」
Sha Wujing sprang forward to meet them and called out: "The master says that if the creature will truly send him over the mountain, we are not to hurt him."
著 reads zhe, the meeting under way. 教 is jiào, causative — he bids us not to.
那怪聞說，連忙跪下，口裡嗚嗚的答應。
那怪闻说，连忙跪下，口里呜呜的答应。
The creature heard, knelt down at once, and made a mumbling noise in its mouth by way of answer.
應 reads yìng in 答應, to answer — the sealed chapters have it this way at every site.
原來被行者揪著鼻子，捏儾了，就如重傷風一般。
原来被行者揪着鼻子，捏儾了，就如重伤风一般。
The reason was that Wukong had it by the nose and had pinched it shut, so that it sounded exactly like a bad head cold.
著 is zhe again. 儾 reads nàng — to speak through a blocked nose. 重 takes zhòng, heavy.
總評 Commentary
The demon is trying to surrender and cannot make the words. Wukong has its nose pinched, so what comes out is a mumble, and the narrator stops the scene to explain exactly why: it sounds like a man with a bad cold.
That explanation is doing real work. Without it the mumbling reads as sullenness, and the demon might be thought to be refusing. The novel wants the reader to understand that the surrender is genuine and that the only thing preventing a clear answer is the grip on the nose — which nobody is proposing to loosen.
It is also the fourth nose in this chapter to settle something. Wukong left the first fiend through one; the second carried Bajie off with one; Wukong got free of that same trunk by jabbing it; and now a peace is being negotiated by holding one shut. The novel found an idea and has worked it thoroughly.