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正好拿住 I Did Not Know of the Disciples
不期他今日到我山裡，正好拿住他蒸吃，不知他手下有這等徒弟。」不期他今日到我山里，正好拿住他蒸吃，不知他手下有这等徒弟。」
逐句解 Line by line
不期他今日到我山裡，正好拿住他蒸吃，不知他手下有這等徒弟。」
不期他今日到我山里，正好拿住他蒸吃，不知他手下有这等徒弟。」
I never expected him to come into my mountain today. It would have been just the chance to seize him and steam him — but I did not know he had disciples like that."
The whole strategic position in twenty-six characters: the prize is here, the opportunity is now, and the obstacle is larger than expected. 正好 is exactly the right moment, and 不知, I did not know, is what turns it into a complaint.
He is not raging. He is reviewing an operation that went wrong and naming the factor he failed to account for, which is a disciple with a rake.
Everything in the cave from here on follows from this sentence. He has the target, he has the motive, and he now has a staffing problem — and one of his imps is about to solve it.