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大聖錯怪 Great Sage You Blame Us Wrongly
二神慌了道：「大聖錯怪了我耶。妖精不在小神山上，不伏小神管轄。但只夜間風響處，小神略知一二。」二神慌了道：「大圣错怪了我耶。妖精不在小神山上，不伏小神管辖。但只夜间风响处，小神略知一二。」
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二神慌了道：「大聖錯怪了我耶。
二神慌了道：「大圣错怪了我耶。
The two gods were flustered and said, "Great Sage, you blame us wrongly.
They correct him at once, which takes some nerve from two minor officials facing a three-headed monkey with three cudgels.
妖精不在小神山上，不伏小神管轄。
妖精不在小神山上，不伏小神管辖。
The fiend is not on your humble gods' mountain, and is not under our jurisdiction.
管轄 is an administrative word — jurisdiction, the area an officer is answerable for. Their first line of defence is the org chart.
但只夜間風響處，小神略知一二。」
但只夜间风响处，小神略知一二。」
But of where the wind sounded in the night, your humble gods do know a little."
略知一二, to know one or two of a thing, is the standing modest formula for having some information. They are bargaining.
The gods defend themselves on jurisdiction, which is the most bureaucratic possible answer and exactly right for what they are. Not our mountain, not our remit.
Then they offer what they do have, and they offer it carefully — a little, about the wind in the night. Two frightened clerks who know that information is the only currency they hold.
It is also confirmation of something the reader saw and Pilgrim did not. The wind that came at the second watch was tracked by the local spirits, who have been watching all along.