我自有手段 I Have My Own Means
八戒滴淚道：「哥啊，仔細著，莫連你也撈去了，我們不好哭得：哭一聲師父，哭一聲師兄，就要哭得亂了。」行者道：「沒事，我自有手段。」八戒滴泪道：「哥啊，仔细着，莫连你也捞去了，我们不好哭得：哭一声师父，哭一声师兄，就要哭得乱了。」行者道：「没事，我自有手段。」
逐句解 Line by line
Bajie said through his tears, "Brother, take care. Do not let them scoop you up as well — we should be no good at the weeping then: one wail for the master, one wail for the elder brother, and it would all get into a muddle."
仔細著, take care, ends with 著 as zhe in its command sense — mind how you go. 撈, to scoop out of water, is the same verb Wukong used of the master being fished out of the middle of them. Both places 得 appears here it is de, hanging a consequence off the weeping.
Pilgrim said, "Never mind. I have means of my own."
Ten characters of flat confidence, and they are the first cheerful thing said in this stretch. 手段 is what you have in hand — skills, methods, tricks — and it is the same word the fiend demanded of him before the recital of the autobiography.
Bajie's worry is genuine and his reason for it is absurd. He is not afraid of losing his brother; he is afraid of the scheduling problem it would create at the graveside. The novel lets him be tender and ridiculous in the same sentence.
It is also the only joke in a very bleak passage, and it works because it comes out of real grief. Bajie has been weeping for a page and a half, and what he has learned from it is that mourning two people at once would be confusing.