分東西散火 Dividing The Baggage Already
行者暗暗嗟嘆道：「不消講了，這定是八戒對師父說我被妖精吃了，師父捨不得我，痛哭；那獃子卻分東西散火哩。咦！不知可是此意？且等我叫他一聲看。」行者暗暗嗟叹道：「不消讲了，这定是八戒对师父说我被妖精吃了，师父舍不得我，痛哭；那呆子却分东西散火哩。咦！不知可是此意？且等我叫他一声看。」
逐句解 Line by line
Wukong sighed quietly to himself: "No need to spell it out. Bajie has surely told the master that the monster ate me, and the master, who cannot bear to lose me, is weeping.
捨不得 takes the light de: the character links the verb to its outcome rather than meaning to obtain.
And that fool is splitting up the goods and breaking the party up.
散火 — to scatter the fire, meaning to disband a company. The metaphor is a cooking fire that everyone had been sitting round.
Well! Can that be what is happening?
咦 stands alone as an exclamation and carries its own punctuation, so it is folded forward onto the question it introduces.
Let me call out to him once and see."
看 at the end of a clause reads kàn and means to try it and find out.
The phrase for breaking up the party is a homely one: scattering the fire. Travellers and work gangs sat round a shared fire, and when the fire was scattered the group no longer existed. It is roughly the force of saying they were clearing out their desks.
Wukong's response to all this is worth noting for what it is not. He is not heartbroken and he is not enraged; he is amused, and slightly curious. The single exclamation in the middle of his thought does most of the work — a man stopping short at something he half expected and still cannot quite believe.
His plan is a test rather than an entrance. Rather than appear, he will call out and watch what happens, which is the same instinct that made him push the cudgel out before his head. Wukong finds out what a situation is by poking it first.