聒噪，聒噪 Sorry to Have Troubled You
行者稱謝。遂教沙僧取出關文遞上。國王看了，即用了印，押了花字，又取黃金十錠、白金二十錠，聊達親禮。八戒原來財色心重，即去接了。行者朝上唱個喏道：「聒噪，聒噪。」便轉身要走。慌得個三藏一轂轆爬起，扯住行者，咬響牙根道：「你們都不顧我就去了？」行者称谢。遂教沙僧取出关文递上。国王看了，即用了印，押了花字，又取黄金十锭、白金二十锭，聊达亲礼。八戒原来财色心重，即去接了。行者朝上唱个喏道：「聒噪，聒噪。」便转身要走。慌得个三藏一毂辘爬起，扯住行者，咬响牙根道：「你们都不顾我就去了？」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim gave his thanks, and then had Sha Monk take out the travel rescript and hand it up. The king looked at it, applied the seal at once and set down his mark, and further took out ten ingots of gold and twenty of white metal as a small gesture of the family courtesy.
It is done in one sentence, which is the right speed for paperwork. 錠 is an ingot, the boat-shaped cast lump Chinese silver and gold were handled in; ten of gold and twenty of silver is a serious sum and the king calls it a small gesture. 親禮 is the courtesy owed between the two families of a marriage. He is paying it to the groom's brothers, which is correct, and it is severance money.
Eight Rules, being at bottom heavy-hearted for wealth and beauty, went straight up and took it. Pilgrim made his bow up towards the throne and said, "Sorry to have troubled you, sorry to have troubled you."
財色心重 — a heart heavy for money and for women — is the standing charge against Eight Rules and the reason he was thrown out of heaven in the first place. The narrator drops it in as a plain fact and moves on. 聒噪 is the phrase to enjoy. It means literally a clamour, and in Song and Ming speech it had become what you said on leaving somebody's house: sorry for the noise, sorry to have been a nuisance. Pilgrim is thanking a king for a bag of gold with the polite formula for having made a racket.
He was just turning to go when Tripitaka scrambled up in a fluster like a rolling wheel, caught hold of Pilgrim and said through gritted teeth, "You are all going off without a thought for me?"
The one moment in the chapter when Tripitaka's composure goes entirely. 一轂轆 is the hub of a cartwheel, and using it as a verb makes him come up off the stool the way a wheel comes off the ground — all at once and without dignity. 咬響牙根, grinding his teeth so they sound, is not rage here but the effort of saying something urgent in a room full of people who must not hear it.
The scene everybody in the hall reads one way and the reader reads another. To the court it is a groom's brothers being paid off and leaving, and one of them making an embarrassing fuss at the door.
The comedy is doing serious work. Eight Rules grabs the money, Pilgrim thanks the king with the phrase you use when you have been noisy, and Tripitaka comes off his seat like a wheel — three responses to the same moment, and only one of the three understands what is happening.
It is the last time in this chapter that the four of them are in a room together and able to speak. Everything after this is done through a hand squeeze, a wink, and a bee.