駕雲弄風 Riding Cloud And Working Wind
行者引路，徑奔後門，後宰門外也有梆鈴之聲，門上也有封鎖。「卻怎生是好？我這一番，若不為唐僧是個凡體，我三人不管怎的，也駕雲弄風走了。行者引路，径奔后门，后宰门外也有梆铃之声，门上也有封锁。「却怎生是好？我这一番，若不为唐僧是个凡体，我三人不管怎的，也驾云弄风走了。
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim led the way and made straight for the back gate; but outside the Rear-Steward Gate there was the sound of a rattle and bell as well, and the gate too had lock and seal.
後宰門 is the rear gate of a palace complex, where the household stores came in. The repetition of the sentence structure is deliberate: same patrol, same lock, same seal.
"Then what are we to do?
Five characters, and no attribution — the speech simply opens. Wukong is talking to himself in front of everybody.
This time, if it were not that the Tang Monk is a mortal body, the three of us could ride a cloud and work up a wind and be gone, no matter how they guarded it.
凡體, a common body, is the technical term for someone who has not transcended the ordinary flesh. The sentence is a complaint dressed as an explanation, and the three of us is doing a lot of quiet work in it.
Two gates, one sentence apart, described in the same words. The repetition is the point: this is not a puzzle with a clever door, it is a city that has been shut properly.
Then Wukong says the thing out loud, and it is not kind. Without the master we would already be gone. It is true, everyone present knows it is true, and the master is sitting on the horse listening.
The novel has been circling this problem for seventy chapters and it never resolves it, because it cannot. The one person the journey is for is the one person who cannot travel. Every rescue in the book is a workaround for a body that has to be carried.