Canonical Classics ← 第七十九回
第七十九回
尋xún洞dòng擒qín妖yāo逢féng老lǎo壽shòu
當dāng朝cháo正zhèng主zhǔ救jiù嬰yīng兒ér

Seeking the Cave to Seize the Fiend He Meets the Old Man of Longevity · At Court the True Sovereign Rescues the Infants

兩件事未完
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兩件事未完 Two Things Not Finished

壽shòu星xīng謝xiè了le行xíng者zhě,就jiù跨kuà鹿lù而ér行xíng。被bèi行xíng者zhě一yì把bǎ扯chě住zhù道dào:「老lǎo弟dì,且qiě慢màn走zǒu,還hái有yǒu兩liǎng件jiàn事shì未wèi完wán哩li。」壽shòu星xīng道dào:「還hái有yǒu甚shén麼me未wèi完wán之zhī事shì?」寿shòu星xīng谢xiè了le行xíng者zhě,就jiù跨kuà鹿lù而ér行xíng。被bèi行xíng者zhě一yì把bǎ扯chě住zhù道dào:「老lǎo弟dì,且qiě慢màn走zǒu,还hái有yǒu两liǎng件jiàn事shì未wèi完wán哩li。」寿shòu星xīng道dào:「还hái有yǒu甚shén么me未wèi完wán之zhī事shì?」


逐句解 Line by line

壽shòu星xīng謝xiè了le行xíng者zhě,就jiù跨kuà鹿lù而ér行xíng。 寿shòu星xīng谢xiè了le行xíng者zhě,就jiù跨kuà鹿lù而ér行xíng。

The Longevity Star thanked Pilgrim and made to mount the deer and go.

He is leaving. Property recovered, thanks given, and the god of longevity is getting on his animal and going home. The kingdom he has not visited, the children he has not seen and the king he has not spoken to do not enter into it.

被bèi行xíng者zhě一yì把bǎ扯chě住zhù道dào:「老lǎo弟dì,且qiě慢màn走zǒu,還hái有yǒu兩liǎng件jiàn事shì未wèi完wán哩li。」 被bèi行xíng者zhě一yì把bǎ扯chě住zhù道dào:「老lǎo弟dì,且qiě慢màn走zǒu,还hái有yǒu两liǎng件jiàn事shì未wèi完wán哩li。」

Pilgrim caught hold of him and said, "Not so fast, brother. There are two things not finished yet."

一把扯住 — grabbed him by the sleeve. Wukong physically stops a senior god from leaving, and the novel reports it in five characters as though it were the most natural thing in the world.

壽shòu星xīng道dào:「還hái有yǒu甚shén麼me未wèi完wán之zhī事shì?」 寿shòu星xīng道dào:「还hái有yǒu甚shén么me未wèi完wán之zhī事shì?」

The Longevity Star said, "What things are still unfinished?"

The question is honest and that is what makes it damning. He genuinely does not know what is left to do, because from where he stands the matter is closed.


總評 Commentary

This is the hinge of the chapter's moral argument and it is played as comedy. A god tries to leave; a monkey grabs his sleeve; the god asks, with real puzzlement, what is left.

What is left is everything that happened to the people below. Wukong is about to list it, and the list is short and specific: there is still a monster loose, and there is still a king who needs to be shown the truth. Neither is the Longevity Star's property, which is exactly why he had not counted them.