闖出禍來 Trouble Has Come to the Gate
守門的小妖急急跑入報道：「大王，闖出禍來了。」老怪道：「有甚禍？」小妖道：「門前有人把門打破，嚷道要師父哩！」老怪大驚道：「不知是那個尋將來也？」守门的小妖急急跑入报道：「大王，闯出祸来了。」老怪道：「有甚祸？」小妖道：「门前有人把门打破，嚷道要师父哩！」老怪大惊道：「不知是那个寻将来也？」
逐句解 Line by line
The little fiend on gate duty came running in at top speed to report: "Great King, trouble has come charging in on us."
The novel switches to the other side of the door, and the first thing we learn is that the fiends have a gatekeeper, a chain of command and a reporting procedure. 闖 is a horse bursting out of a gateway, which is exactly what has happened.
The old fiend said, "What trouble?"
Six characters. 甚 is shén, the questioning what, even with no partner character after it — the interrogative sense keeps that reading whether or not the usual second character turns up, which is a ruling this chapter needs five separate times.
The little fiend said, "There is somebody out front who has smashed the door in, hollering that he wants his master back."
嚷道 is to bawl something out, and the character 嚷 is rǎng throughout this novel. 哩 at the end is a mouth-noise flourish rather than a word — the Ming ancestor of the modern sentence-final tag, adding a shrug of immediacy that English mostly has to carry with word order.
The old fiend was greatly alarmed and said, "Who is it that has come looking for us?"
那 is nǎ again, the questioning which-one, and 尋將來 carries the same hollow 將 between verb and direction that Wukong's arrival took in the opening line. It is the chapter's most common verb shape and it means nothing more than come-looking.
The change of viewpoint is the best joke in the chapter so far. We have spent seven passages inside a tragedy, and we now discover that on the other side of the wall it is an office, and somebody is being sent to tell the boss about a complaint at reception.
The fiends of this novel are almost always organised. They have ranks, they hold meetings, they have a vanguard who proposes strategy and a king who worries about it. Making the monsters bureaucratic is one of the book's steadiest sources of comedy, and it also makes them beatable — an organisation can be tricked in ways a beast cannot.