快去快來 Go Quickly and Come Back
幸如今風霧明淨,你們且略坐坐,等我去尋些嫩草兒,先喂喂馬,然後再往那家子化齋去罷。」唐僧歡喜道:「好啊,你今日卻怎肯這等勤謹?快去快來。」幸如今风雾明净,你们且略坐坐,等我去寻些嫩草儿,先喂喂马,然后再往那家子化斋去罢。」唐僧欢喜道:「好啊,你今日却怎肯这等勤谨?快去快来。」
逐句解 Line by line
Luckily the wind and fog have cleared now. Sit down a while, the rest of you, and let me go and find some tender grass to feed the horse first. After that I can go to that household and beg a meal."
罷 is ba, the soft particle that turns a proposal into a suggestion — not the bà that means to have done with a thing. He cites the clear weather as his good fortune, which is his brother's lie coming back round as evidence for his own.
The Tang Monk said with pleasure, "Good, good. What has made you so diligent today? Go quickly and come back quickly."
勤謹 is diligent and careful — the last word anyone has ever applied to Bajie, and his master says it with delight. The question is meant fondly and is the only sharp thing in the passage: what indeed has come over him.
Tripitaka is pleased. He has been lied to twice in twenty lines, by both disciples in turn, and what he takes from it is that Bajie is showing initiative about the horse.
His parting words are the ordinary thing anyone says. Go quickly and come back quickly. Bajie will come back, hours later, covered in his own slobber and unable to prove a word of what happened.