做徒子徒孫 I Would Be Your Disciples Disciple
三藏道：「你若救得我命，情願與你做徒子、徒孫也。」行者道：「既如此，不必遲疑。」教：「八戒，快和些泥來。」那獃子即使釘鈀築了些土。三藏道：「你若救得我命，情愿与你做徒子、徒孙也。」行者道：「既如此，不必迟疑。」教：「八戒，快和些泥来。」那呆子即使钉钯筑了些土。
逐句解 Line by line
Tripitaka said, "If you can save my life, I am willing to be your disciple and your disciple's disciple."
徒子徒孫 — disciple-son and disciple-grandson, two generations down. Tripitaka does not bargain, hesitate or preserve any part of his standing. He offers the lot in nineteen characters.
Pilgrim said, "In that case, no need to hesitate."
Ten characters, and he does not take the offer up. Wukong never once, in this chapter or elsewhere, holds his master to it.
He called out, "Bajie, hurry and knead up some mud."
和 is huó here — to knead a dry thing with a wet one until it holds together, which is what you do to clay or dough. It is not the hé of harmony or the hàn that means and.
The idiot at once dug up some earth with his muckrake.
釘鐲 dīng pá is Bajie's nine-toothed rake, a genuine celestial weapon forged of divine ice-iron, and he is using it to dig up dirt in a courtyard.
The comedy and the pathos arrive together. Tripitaka offers to be his own disciple's grandson-in-religion, Wukong waves it away, and the great rescue begins with somebody being told to go and dig.
Bajie's rake is the joke that keeps giving. It was made in heaven, it has a name and a weight given in the text of this novel, and its use in this chapter is to turn over a patch of earth so that his brother can make a mask.