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都是假意 All Of It Pretence
你卻將他吞在肚裡，他便弄起法來，教你受苦，怎麼敢與他比較？才自說送唐僧，都是假意，實為兄長性命要緊，所以哄他出來，決不送他。」你却将他吞在肚里，他便弄起法来，教你受苦，怎么敢与他比较？才自说送唐僧，都是假意，实为兄长性命要紧，所以哄他出来，决不送他。」
逐句解 Line by line
你卻將他吞在肚裡，他便弄起法來，教你受苦，怎麼敢與他比較？
你却将他吞在肚里，他便弄起法来，教你受苦，怎么敢与他比较？
Instead you swallowed him into your belly, where he could work his arts and make you suffer. How could you dare match yourself against him then?
將 reads jiāng, putting the object before the verb. 教 is jiào in the causative sense, to make someone undergo something.
才自說送唐僧，都是假意，實為兄長性命要緊，所以哄他出來，決不送他。」
才自说送唐僧，都是假意，实为兄长性命要紧，所以哄他出来，决不送他。」
What was said just now about sending the Tang monk on was all of it pretence. What really mattered was my elder brother's life, so we coaxed him out. We shall certainly not send the monk."
為 reads wèi, for the sake of. 兄長 takes zhǎng for the senior kinsman.
Here the novel does something it has not done so far in this chapter: it lets the reader hear the demons alone. Every promise made to Wukong is now confirmed as a lie, and confirmed casually, as a matter already understood among them. The scene exists to remove any doubt the reader might have had about the sedan chair.
The reasoning offered is almost sympathetic. The elder brother's life was at stake, so they said whatever ended the crisis. Anyone would. It is the ordinary logic of a hostage negotiation, and the novel gives it to the monsters without irony, which makes them more interesting than the usual obstacle.
It also settles what kind of chapter this is. Wukong examined the promise and judged it honest; the reader now knows he was wrong. From here on the pilgrims are walking toward an ambush that only we can see, and that gap is what generates the suspense of everything that follows.