一叢大樹 Two Men Tied to a Tree
徑飛入深處，但見一叢大樹，樹底下綁著兩個人，一個正是唐僧。行者見了，心癢難撓，忍不住，現了本相，近前叫聲：「師父。」径飞入深处，但见一丛大树，树底下绑着两个人，一个正是唐僧。行者见了，心痒难挠，忍不住，现了本相，近前叫声：「师父。」
逐句解 Line by line
He flew straight into the depths of it, and there he saw a clump of great trees, and under the trees two men tied up — and one of them was the Tang Monk.
The sentence holds its news to the last four characters, which is deliberate. 綁著, tied up, takes 著 as zhe for a state held in place. And there are TWO men, which the novel mentions and then drops for a page — the second will turn out to matter for the whole last stretch of the chapter.
Pilgrim saw him, and his heart itched past all scratching. Unable to hold back, he showed his true form, went up close and called, "Master."
心癢難撓, an itch in the heart nobody can scratch, is still a live expression for unbearable eagerness — and it is very funny applied to a monkey. He drops the disguise out of sheer feeling, which is exactly the impulsiveness he talked himself out of two passages ago.
The reunion is given four characters. After a battle, a burial, two false heads and a page of weeping, Wukong says one word.
The second man under the tree is the chapter's quietest piece of construction. He is mentioned once here and left alone, and he turns out to be the woodcutter whose mother closes the chapter. The novel plants him and walks away.