管鮑分金 Learn From Guan And Bao
兄啊，這行囊、馬匹，誰與看顧？寧學管鮑分金，休仿孫龐鬥智。自古道：『打虎還得親兄弟，上陣須教父子兵。』兄啊，这行囊、马匹，谁与看顾？宁学管鲍分金，休仿孙庞斗智。自古道：『打虎还得亲兄弟，上阵须教父子兵。』
逐句解 Line by line
"Brother, this baggage and this horse — who is to look after them?
The practical question, and it is unanswerable. Somebody has to mind the luggage.
Better to learn from Guan and Bao dividing the gold than to copy Sun and Pang matching wits.
Two famous pairs, one of each kind: Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya divided profits generously and stayed friends for life; Sun Bin and Pang Juan studied together and Pang crippled Sun out of envy. Friendship against treachery, in eight characters.
As the old saying goes, 'To beat a tiger you still want your own brothers; to go into battle you must have fathers and sons for troops.'"
還 is hái, still, and 得 is dé, must have. 子 takes the literary zǐ in the compound for fathers and sons, and 教 is jiào. The proverb is still current.
Sha Monk quotes four separate pieces of traditional wisdom in three lines, and every one of them says the same thing: you need your own people.
The paired examples are the cleverest of them. Guan and Bao are the standard model of friends who trusted each other about money; Sun and Pang are the standard warning about two students of the same master, one of whom maimed the other. Pick which pair you want to be.
The tiger proverb is the one that would land hardest on Pilgrim, because it is about family. He has spent the chapter telling his master that disciples are sons. Sha Monk is pointing out that the arrangement runs both ways.