沒甚風霧 There Is No Wind or Fog
即時落下雲頭,到三藏前。三藏問道:「悟空,風霧處吉凶何如?」行者道:「這會子明淨了,沒甚風霧。」即时落下云头,到三藏前。三藏问道:「悟空,风雾处吉凶何如?」行者道:「这会子明净了,没甚风雾。」
逐句解 Line by line
He came down off his cloud at once and stood before Tripitaka.
落 is luò, coming down — not the là of leaving a thing behind. 雲頭, the head of the cloud, is the standard way this novel says a flier landed.
Tripitaka asked, "Wukong, how does it stand up there in the wind and fog, lucky or unlucky?"
He asks the question he sent Pilgrim to answer, in the same words he used to send him. 吉凶, lucky-or-unlucky, is again a pair of opposites doing the work of a single question.
Pilgrim said, "It has cleared up by now. There is no wind or fog to speak of."
The lie, in nine characters. 甚 is shén here, the indefinite any rather than the intensifier very — no wind or fog at all. 這會子 is thoroughly colloquial for just now, which helps the answer sound offhand.
He was up there thirty seconds ago looking at a striped fiend and forty imps in ranks. He comes down and reports clear weather.
The novel gives the lie no fanfare at all. No hesitation, no aside, no narrator comment — just a colloquial phrase and a flat denial, dropped into the middle of an ordinary exchange.