你得何罪 What Crime Is That Of Yours
行者道：「你吃他的茶，受他的私，賣放犯人，輕慢聖旨，你得何罪？」金星道：「不吃茶，不吃茶。連我也賴將起來了。李天王，快走，快走。」行者道：「你吃他的茶，受他的私，卖放犯人，轻慢圣旨，你得何罪？」金星道：「不吃茶，不吃茶。连我也赖将起来了。李天王，快走，快走。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said, "You drink his tea, take his private favours, let a prisoner off for money, treat the imperial edict lightly — what crime is that of yours?"
賣放犯人 is to release a prisoner for a bribe, and it was a named offence in the code, not a figure of speech. 輕慢聖旨 is to treat an imperial order with contempt, another one. Pilgrim has spent the chapter learning the vocabulary of the courts and is now using it on the man who saved him. 得 is dé, to incur or receive — what penalty do you draw?
The Gold Star said, "No tea, no tea.
Six characters, and the mediator folds instantly. The repetition is panic, not politeness.
You will have me up on a charge as well.
賴 is the character behind 賴皮, the shameless rogue everyone in heaven has been calling him — used here as a verb, to fasten something on somebody by sheer persistence. 將 is the marker jiāng that attaches to a verb of motion and pushes it along.
Li the Heavenly King — quick, quick, let us go."
Venus abandons the tea and starts hurrying his colleague out of the room, which is exactly what Pilgrim asked for a passage ago and could not get by asking.
The joke is that Pilgrim is now the one citing statutes. Four offences in a single breath, all real, all aimed at the person who has done nothing but help him.
It also works. Venus wanted a cup of tea and a pause; he gets neither, and the party moves because the shameless rogue has learned to be shameless in legal Chinese.