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第七十八回
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In Bhikshu He Pities the Children and Sends Out the Shade-Spirits · In the Golden Hall He Knows the Fiend and Discourses on the Way and Its Power

是個妖邪
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是個妖邪 This Royal Father Is A Fiend

cáixià殿diànwǎngwàizhèngzǒuxíngzhěfēixiàmàodǐngérláizàiěrbiānjiàodào:「shīzhèguózhàngshìyāoxiéguówángshòuleyāoxiānzhōngděngzhāidàilǎosūnzàizhètīngxiāo。」sānzàngzhīhuìlechūcháoméncáixià殿diànwǎngwàizhèngzǒuxíngzhěfēixiàmàodǐngérláizàiěrbiānjiàodào:「shīzhèguózhàngshìyāoxiéguówángshòuleyāoxiān驿zhōngděngzhāidàilǎosūnzàizhètīngxiāo。」sānzàngzhīhuìlechūcháomén


逐句解 Line by line

cáixià殿diànwǎngwàizhèngzǒuxíngzhěfēixiàmàodǐngérláizàiěrbiānjiàodào:「shīzhèguózhàngshìyāoxiéguówángshòuleyāo cáixià殿diànwǎngwàizhèngzǒuxíngzhěfēixiàmàodǐngérláizàiěrbiānjiàodào:「shīzhèguózhàngshìyāoxiéguówángshòuleyāo

He had just come down from the hall and was walking out when Pilgrim flew down from the top of his hat, came to his ear and said, "Master, this Royal Father-in-Law is a fiend, and the king has taken in the fiend's influence."

The confirmation, and it comes from the one witness in the room who could see. in 頂兒 is a suffix rather than the word for a child, and takes ér like all the rest. 受了妖氣 — he has taken in the fiend's breath — is a medical rather than a moral judgement, and Wukong offers it as one: the king is not wicked, he is infected.

xiānzhōngděngzhāidàilǎosūnzàizhètīngxiāo。」 xiān驿zhōngděngzhāidàilǎosūnzàizhètīngxiāo。」

"Go on ahead to the posting house and wait for the meal there. Let old Monkey stay here and listen for news of him."

The instruction that puts Tripitaka in the posting house alone and Wukong in the throne room invisible. Everything in the next block turns on this division.

sānzàngzhīhuìlechūcháomén sānzàngzhīhuìlechūcháomén

Tripitaka understood, and went out of the palace gate by himself — of which no more.

不題 — no more of this — is the storyteller's formula for dropping one thread and picking up another. The novel is telling the reader to keep their eye on the gnat.


總評 Commentary

Wukong has now seen what Sha Monk guessed at in the post house, and the chapter has taken nine hundred characters to get from the guess to the confirmation. It arrives in a whisper into an ear, in a corridor, from an insect.

The way he puts it about the king is the important thing. Not that the king is evil — that he has taken in the fiend's breath. It keeps the plan from the post house intact: catch the demon, show it to the king, and the man may still be curable. Wukong has been consistent about this from the first night.