第033回 The Demon Kings Capture Tang Sanzang with Their Magic Treasures

第033回Chapter 33

卻說那怪將八戒拿進洞去，道：「哥哥啊，拿將一個來了。」老魔喜道：「拿來我看。」二魔道：「這不是？」老魔道：「兄弟，錯拿了，這個和尚沒用。」八戒就綽經說道：「大王，沒用的和尚，放他出去罷。Now to tell of the fiend who carried Bajie into the cave, saying, "Elder brother, I've brought one back." The Old Fiend said happily, "Bring him here for me to see." The Second Fiend said, "Isn't this him?" The Old Fiend said, "Brother, you've caught the wrong one — this monk is useless." Bajie at once seized the chance to speak up, saying, "Great King, since I'm a useless monk, let me go.不當人子。」二魔道：「哥哥，不要放他。That wouldn't be decent of you." The Second Fiend said, "Elder brother, don't let him go.雖然沒用，也是唐僧一起的，叫做豬八戒。Although he's useless, he's still one of Tang Seng's company — he's called Zhu Bajie.把他且浸在後邊淨水池中，浸退了毛衣，使鹽醃著，晒乾了，等天陰下酒。」八戒聽言道：「蹭蹬啊，撞著個販醃臘的妖怪了。」那小妖把八戒擡進去，拋在水裡不題。Soak him for now in the clear-water pond out back, soak off his bristly coat, salt him down, and dry him in the sun, to have as a relish with wine on an overcast day." Hearing this, Bajie said, "What rotten luck — I've run into a fiend in the salted-meat trade." The little demons carried Bajie inside and tossed him into the water; we'll leave that there for now.

卻說三藏坐在坡前，耳熱眼跳，身體不安，叫聲：「悟空，怎麼悟能這番巡山，去之久而不來？」行者道：「師父還不曉得他的心哩。」三藏道：「他有甚心？」行者道：「師父啊，此山若是有怪，他半步難行，一定虛張聲勢，跑將回來報我。Now to tell of Sanzang, who sat before the slope, his ears burning and his eyes twitching, ill at ease in body, and called out, "Wukong, why has Wuneng been gone so long scouting the mountain this time, without coming back?" The Pilgrim said, "Master, you still don't understand his mind." Sanzang said, "What's on his mind?" The Pilgrim said, "Master, if there really were a monster on this mountain, he wouldn't be able to go half a step further — he'd surely make a great bluster and come running back to report to me.想是無怪，路途平靜，他一直去了。」三藏道：「假若真個去了，卻在那裡相會？I suspect there's no monster, the road is peaceful, and he's simply gone straight on." Sanzang said, "But if he's really gone on ahead, where shall we meet up with him?此間乃是山野空闊之處，比不得那店市城井之間。」行者道：「師父莫慮，且請上馬。This is open wild mountain country, not to be compared with towns and marketplaces." The Pilgrim said, "Master, don't worry, please mount up.那獃子有些懶惰，斷然走的遲慢。That fool is somewhat lazy, and is certain to be walking slowly.你把馬打動些兒，我們定趕上他，一同去罷。」真個唐僧上馬，沙僧挑擔，行者前面引路上山。Urge the horse on a bit, and we'll surely catch up with him, then go on together." Sure enough, Tang Seng mounted the horse, Sha Seng shouldered the pole, and the Pilgrim led the way up the mountain.

卻說那老怪又喚二魔道：「兄弟，你既拿了八戒，斷然就有唐僧。Now to tell of the Old Fiend, who called to the Second Fiend again, saying, "Brother, since you've caught Bajie, Tang Seng must certainly be near as well.再去巡巡山來，切莫錯過他去。」二魔道：「就行，就行。」你看他急點起五十名小妖，上山巡邏。Go patrol the mountain again, and whatever you do don't let him slip past." The Second Fiend said, "At once, at once." Just watch him hastily muster fifty little demons and go up the mountain to patrol.正走處，只見祥雲縹緲，瑞氣盤旋，二魔道：「唐僧來了。」眾妖道：「唐僧在那裡？」二魔道：「好人頭上祥雲照頂，惡人頭上黑氣沖天。Just as they were walking along, they saw auspicious clouds drifting and lucky vapors coiling above, and the Second Fiend said, "Tang Seng is coming." The demons said, "Where is Tang Seng?" The Second Fiend said, "Over a good man's head, auspicious clouds shine down upon his crown; over an evil man's head, black vapors soar to the sky.那唐僧原是金蟬長老臨凡，十世修行的好人，所以有這祥雲縹緲。」眾怪都不看見。That Tang Seng was originally the elder Golden Cicada come down to the mortal world, a good man who has cultivated through ten lifetimes, and that is why these auspicious clouds appear." None of the demons could see them.二魔用手指道：「那不是？」那三藏就在馬上打了一個寒噤；The Second Fiend pointed with his hand and said, "Isn't that him?" and at that very moment Sanzang, on his horse, gave a shiver;又一指，又打個寒噤。he pointed again, and Sanzang shivered again.一連指了三指，他就一連打了三個寒噤。He pointed three times in a row, and Sanzang shivered three times in a row.心神不寧道：「徒弟啊，我怎麼打寒噤麼？」沙僧道：「打寒噤想是傷食病發了。」行者道：「胡說，師父是走著這深山峻嶺，必然小心虛驚。Uneasy in mind and spirit, Sanzang said, "Disciples, why do I keep shivering?" Sha Seng said, "Shivering like that is probably a bout of indigestion coming on." The Pilgrim said, "Nonsense — Master is walking through these deep mountains and lofty ridges, and is naturally on edge and easily startled.莫怕，莫怕，等老孫把棒打一路與你壓壓驚。」Don't be afraid, don't be afraid; let old Monkey clear a path ahead with his staff to settle your nerves."

好行者，理開棒，在馬前丟幾個解數，上三下四，左五右六，盡按那六韜三略，使起神通。Splendid Pilgrim — he raised his staff and, in front of the horse, ran through several sets of movements, three high and four low, five to the left and six to the right, all in accordance with the Six Secret Teachings and Three Strategies, displaying his divine powers.那長老在馬上觀之，真個是寰中少有，世上全無。The elder, watching from his horse, thought it truly something rarely seen within the world, unmatched anywhere on earth.剖開路一直前行，險些兒不諕倒那怪物。He cleaved the road open and pressed straight ahead, very nearly frightening that monster to death.他在山頂上看見，魂飛魄喪，忽失聲道：「幾年間聞說孫行者，今日才知話不虛傳果是真。」眾怪上前道：「大王，怎麼長他人之志氣，滅自己之威風？Watching from the mountaintop, his soul flew and his spirit scattered, and he suddenly blurted out, "For years I have heard talk of Sun Wukong the Pilgrim — only today do I know the tales were no exaggeration, and it's all true." The demons came forward and said, "Great King, why do you build up another's resolve and destroy your own prestige?你誇誰哩？」二魔道：「孫行者神通廣大，那唐僧吃他不成。」眾怪道：「大王，你沒手段，等我們著幾個去報大大王，教點起本洞大小兵來，擺開陣勢，合力齊心，怕他走了那裡去？」二魔道：「你們不曾見他那條鐵棒，有萬夫不當之勇。Who are you praising?" The Second Fiend said, "Sun Wukong's divine powers are vast — there's no eating that Tang Seng with him around." The demons said, "Great King, if you have no skill for it, let a few of us go report to the Great King, and have him muster all the troops of the cave, great and small, and form battle lines; with everyone's strength joined as one, why should we fear he'll get away?" The Second Fiend said, "You haven't seen that iron staff of his — its might is such that ten thousand men could not withstand it.我洞中不過有四五百兵，怎禁得他那一棒？」眾妖道：「這等說，唐僧吃不成，卻不把豬八戒錯拿了？Our cave has no more than four or five hundred soldiers — how could they withstand a single blow of that staff?" The demons said, "If that's so, and Tang Seng can't be eaten, then wasn't it a mistake to have caught Zhu Bajie?如今送還他罷。」二魔道：「拿便也不曾錯拿，送便也不好輕送。We ought to send him back now." The Second Fiend said, "Catching him wasn't a mistake exactly, but sending him back isn't something to be done lightly either.唐僧終是要吃，只是眼下還尚不能。」眾妖道：「這般說，還過幾年麼？」二魔道：「也不消幾年。Tang Seng is still to be eaten in the end, it's only that it cannot be done just now." The demons said, "If that's so, must we wait several more years?" The Second Fiend said, "It won't even take that long.我看見那唐僧只可善圖，不可惡取。As I see it, that Tang Seng can only be schemed for by gentle means, not seized by force.若要倚勢拿他，聞也不得一聞。If we try to rely on force to catch him, we won't even get so much as a sniff of him.只可以善去感他，賺得他心與我心相合，卻就善中取計，可以圖之。」眾妖道：「大王如定計拿他，可用我等？」二魔道：「你們都各回本寨，但不許報與大王知道；We can only move him with kindness, win him over until his heart is in accord with mine, and then, within that kindness, work out a scheme by which he can be taken." The demons said, "Great King, if you have settled on a plan to catch him, will you have need of us?" The Second Fiend said, "All of you go back to your own posts, but you must not report this to the Great King;若是驚動了他，必然走了風汛，敗了我計策。if it alarms him, word is bound to leak out and ruin my scheme.我自有個神通變化，可以拿他。」眾妖散去。I have powers of transformation of my own with which I can catch him." The demons scattered and left.

他獨跳下山來，在那道路之傍，搖身一變，變做個年老的道者。He alone leapt down the mountain, and there by the roadside shook himself and transformed into an old Daoist priest.真個是怎生打扮？Just what did he look like, dressed up so?但見他：Behold him:

他在那大路傍，妝做個跌折腿的道士，腳上血淋淋，口裡哼哼的，只叫：「救人！There by the highway he disguised himself as a Daoist priest who had broken his leg in a fall, his foot dripping with blood, moaning from his mouth, and crying out only, "Help! Someone save me!救人！」Save me!"

卻說這三藏仗著孫大聖與沙僧，歡喜前來。Now to tell of Sanzang, who, relying on the Great Sage Sun and Sha Seng, was coming along happily.正行處，只聽得叫：「師父救人！」三藏聞得，道：「善哉！Just as they were traveling along, he heard someone calling, "Master, save me!" Hearing this, Sanzang said, "Merciful Buddha!善哉！Merciful Buddha!這曠野山中，四下裡更無村舍，是甚麼人叫？In this open wilderness of mountains, with no village or house anywhere around, who could be calling out?想必是虎豹狼蟲諕倒的。」這長老兜回駿馬，叫道：「那有難者是甚人？It must be someone frightened half to death by a tiger, leopard, wolf, or serpent." The elder reined his fine steed around and called out, "Whoever is in trouble there, who are you?可出來。」這怪從草科裡爬出，對長老馬前，乒乓的只情磕頭。Come on out." The fiend crawled out from among the weeds and, before the elder's horse, kept knocking his head to the ground with loud thuds.三藏在馬上見他是個道者，卻又年紀高大，甚不過意。Seeing from his horse that this was a Daoist priest, and an elderly one at that, Sanzang felt very much moved with pity.連忙下馬攙道：「請起，請起。」那怪道：「疼，疼，疼。」丟了手看處，只見他腳上流血。He hurriedly dismounted and helped him up, saying, "Please rise, please rise." The fiend said, "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts." Letting go of his hand and looking, he saw blood flowing from his foot.三藏驚問道：「先生啊，你從那裡來？Startled, Sanzang asked, "Sir, where have you come from?因甚傷了尊足？」那怪巧語花言，虛情假意道：「師父啊，此山西去，有一座清幽觀宇，我是那觀裡的道士。」三藏道：「你不在本觀中侍奉香火，演習經法，為何在此閑行？」那魔道：「因前日山南里施主家邀道眾禳星散福來晚，我師徒二人一路而行。How did you come to injure your foot?" The fiend, with glib and flowery words, false in feeling and deceitful in intent, said, "Master, west of this mountain there is a secluded Daoist temple, and I am a priest of that temple." Sanzang said, "Why are you not in your temple tending the incense fires and practicing the scriptures and rites, but wandering idly here instead?" The fiend said, "The day before yesterday a patron south of the mountain invited the priests to hold a star-placating rite for blessings, and we stayed late; my disciple and I were traveling back together along the road.行至深衢，忽遇著一隻斑斕猛虎，將我徒弟銜去。As we walked along the deep road, we suddenly encountered a striped fierce tiger, which seized my disciple in its jaws and carried him off.貧道戰兢兢的無奔走，一跤跌在亂石坡上，傷了腿足，不知回路。This poor priest, trembling with fear and unable to run, fell upon a slope of jumbled rocks, injuring my leg and foot, and lost my way back.今日大有天緣，得遇師父。Today, by great good fortune from Heaven, I have had the good luck to meet you, Master.萬望師父大發慈悲，救我一命。I beg you with all my heart, Master, to show great mercy and save my life.若得到觀中，就是典身賣命，一定重謝深恩。」三藏聞言，認為真實，道：「先生啊，你我都是一命之人，我是僧，你是道，衣冠雖別，修行之理則同。If I can only get back to the temple, I would pawn my very body and sell my life in gratitude, and would surely repay this great kindness richly." Hearing this, Sanzang took it to be true and said, "Sir, you and I are both lives under Heaven alike; I am a monk and you a Daoist — though our robes and caps differ, the principle of cultivation is the same.我不救你啊，就不是出家之輩。If I did not save you, I would not be worthy of having left the household life.救便救你，你卻走不得路哩。」那怪道：「立也立不起來，怎生走路？」I will save you, then, but you cannot walk." The fiend said, "I cannot even stand up, so how could I possibly walk?"

三藏道：「也罷，也罷，我還走得路，將馬讓與你騎一程，到你上宮，還我馬去罷。」那怪道：「師父，感蒙厚情，只是腿胯跌傷，不能騎馬。」三藏道：「正是。」叫沙和尚：「你把行李捎在我馬上，你馱他一程罷。」沙僧道：「我馱他。」那怪急回頭，抹了他一眼，道：「師父啊，我被那猛虎諕怕了，見這晦氣色臉的師父，愈加驚怕，不敢要他馱。」三藏叫道：「悟空，你馱罷。」行者連聲答應道：「我馱，我馱。」那妖就認定了行者，順順的要他馱，再不言語。Sanzang said, "Very well, very well — I can still walk myself; let me lend you my horse to ride for a stretch, and when we reach your temple, you can return the horse to me." The fiend said, "Master, I am deeply grateful for your kindness, but my leg and hip are injured from the fall, and I cannot ride a horse." Sanzang said, "True indeed." He called to Brother Sha, "Strap the luggage onto my horse, and you carry him on your back for a stretch." Sha Seng said, "I'll carry him." The fiend hastily turned his head, shot him a glance, and said, "Master, I was so frightened by that fierce tiger that seeing this master with the unlucky-looking dark face only frightens me all the more — I dare not have him carry me." Sanzang called out, "Wukong, you carry him then." The Pilgrim answered at once, again and again, "I'll carry him, I'll carry him." The demon then fixed his attention on the Pilgrim, compliantly wanting him to be the one to carry him, and said nothing more.沙僧笑道：「這個沒眼色的老道。Sha Seng laughed and said, "This old Daoist has no sense at all.我馱著不好，顛倒要他馱。He won't have me carry him, but insists on being carried by him instead.他若看不見師父時，三尖石上，把觔都摜斷了你的哩。」If he can't see straight, Master, on some sharp three-cornered rock he'll get every sinew in his body smashed to bits."

行者聽了，口中笑道：「你這個潑魔，怎麼敢來惹我？Hearing this, the Pilgrim laughed and said, "You wretched fiend, how dare you come and provoke me?你也問問老孫是幾年的人兒？Why don't you go ask around how many years old old Monkey is?你這般鬼話兒，只好瞞唐僧，又好來瞞我？This ghost-talk of yours might fool Tang Seng, but do you think it can fool me too?我認得你是這山中的怪物，想是要吃我師父哩。I recognize you for the monster of this mountain — you must mean to eat my master.我師父又非是等閑之輩，是你吃的？My master is no ordinary person — do you think he's something for you to eat?你要吃他，也須是分多一半與老孫是。」那魔聞得行者口中念誦，道：「師父，我是好人家兒孫，做了道士。If you want to eat him, you'll have to share more than half with old Monkey." Hearing the Pilgrim muttering all this, the fiend said, "Master, I am the son of a good family who became a Daoist priest.今日不幸，遇著虎狼之厄，我不是妖怪。」行者道：「你既怕虎狼，怎麼不念北斗經？」三藏正然上馬，聞得此言，罵道：「這個潑猴！『救人一命，勝造七級浮屠。』你馱他馱兒便罷了，且講甚麼『北斗經』、『南斗經』。」行者聞言道：「這廝造化哩，我那師父是個慈悲好善之人，又有些外好裡枒槎。Today I had the misfortune to run into disaster from a tiger — I am not a monster." The Pilgrim said, "If you were so afraid of tigers and wolves, why didn't you recite the Northern Dipper Sutra?" Sanzang, who was just then mounting his horse, heard this and scolded, "You wretched ape! 'To save one life is better than building a seven-tiered pagoda.' Just carry him and be done with it — why go on about the 'Northern Dipper Sutra' and 'Southern Dipper Sutra'?" Hearing this, the Pilgrim said to himself, "This fellow is in luck. My master is a compassionate, kindly man, though outwardly gentle he is a bit rough and thorny underneath.我待不馱你，他就怪我。If I refuse to carry you, he'll blame me for it.馱便馱，須要與你講開：若是大小便，先和我說；Carry you I will then, but let's get things clear beforehand: if you need to relieve yourself, tell me first;若在脊梁上淋下來，臊氣不堪，且污了我的衣服，沒人漿洗。」那怪道：「我這般一把子年紀，豈不知你的話說？」行者才拉將起來，背在身上，同長老、沙僧，奔大路西行。if it drips down my back, the stink would be unbearable, and it would foul my clothes besides, with no one to wash them." The fiend said, "At my age, how could I not understand what you mean?" Only then did the Pilgrim haul him up and hoist him onto his back, and together with the elder and Sha Seng he set off west along the main road.那山上高低不平之處，行者留心慢走，讓唐僧前去。On the uneven, hilly parts of the mountain, the Pilgrim walked slowly and carefully, letting Tang Seng go on ahead.

行不上三五里路，師父與沙僧下了山凹之中，行者卻望不見，心中埋怨道：「師父偌大年紀，再不曉得事體。They had not gone more than three or five li when Master and Sha Seng descended into a hollow of the mountain and passed out of the Pilgrim's sight; in his heart he grumbled, "Master is getting on in years, and still doesn't understand how things work.這等遠路，就是空身子也還嫌手重，恨不得捽了，卻又教我馱著這個妖怪。On such a long road, even carrying nothing at all would already feel burdensome enough that I'd rather fling it down, and yet he has me carry this monster on top of it.莫說他是妖怪，就是好人，這們年紀，也死得著了。Never mind that he's a monster — even if he were a good man, at his age he'd be about ready to die anyway.摜殺他罷，馱他怎的？」這大聖正算計要摜，原來那怪就知道了，且會遣山。Let me just smash him to death — why bother carrying him?" Just as the Great Sage was scheming to dash him down, it turned out the fiend already knew his intent, and moreover he knew how to summon mountains.就使一個「移山倒海」的法術，就在行者背上捻訣，念動真言，把一座須彌山遣在空中，劈頭來壓行者。He at once employed the magic of "Moving Mountains and Overturning Seas," and right there on the Pilgrim's back formed a magic sign with his fingers and recited a true spell, summoning Mount Sumeru into the air to come crashing down on the Pilgrim's head.這大聖慌得把頭偏一偏，壓在左肩臂上，笑道：「我的兒，你使甚麼重身法來壓老孫哩？In alarm the Great Sage tilted his head aside, so that it landed pressing on his left shoulder and arm, and laughed, saying, "My child, what body-weighting trick are you using to press down on old Monkey?這個倒也不怕，只是正擔好挑，偏擔兒難挨。」那魔道：「一座山壓他不住。」卻又念咒語，把一座峨嵋山遣在空中來壓。This one I'm not even afraid of — it's only that a load carried straight is easy to bear, but a load carried lopsided is hard to endure." The fiend thought, "One mountain isn't enough to hold him down," and so recited another spell, summoning Mount Emei into the air to press down on him as well.行者又把頭偏一偏，壓在右肩臂上。The Pilgrim again tilted his head aside, so that it landed pressing on his right shoulder and arm.看他挑著兩座大山，飛星來趕師父。See him now, shouldering two great mountains, dashing along like a shooting star to catch up with his master.那魔頭看見，就嚇得渾身是汗，遍體生津道：「他卻會擔山。」又整性情，把真言念動，將一座泰山遣在空中，劈頭壓住行者。Seeing this, the demon chief was so alarmed that sweat broke out all over his body, and he thought, "So he really can carry mountains." He steeled himself again, recited the true spell, and summoned Mount Tai into the air, bringing it down squarely on the Pilgrim's head to pin him down.那大聖力軟觔麻，遭逢他這泰山下頂之法，只壓得三尸神咋，七竅噴紅。The Great Sage's strength went slack and his sinews went numb; caught by this technique of Mount Tai pressing down on the crown, he was pressed until the Three Corpse spirits within him cried out and blood spurted from his seven orifices.

好妖魔，使神通壓倒行者，卻疾駕長風，去趕唐三藏，就於雲端裡伸下手來，馬上撾人。The wicked fiend, having used his powers to press the Pilgrim down, swiftly rode a long gust of wind to chase after Tang Sanzang, and from amid the clouds reached down a hand to snatch him right off the horse.慌得個沙僧丟了行李，掣出降妖棒，當頭擋住。In alarm Sha Seng dropped the luggage, drew out his demon-quelling staff, and blocked the attack head-on.那妖魔舉一口七星劍，對面來迎。The fiend raised a seven-star sword and came at him face to face.這一場好殺：What a fine battle this was:

那魔十分兇猛，使口寶劍，流星的解數滾來，把個沙僧戰得軟弱難搪，回頭要走。The fiend was fierce beyond measure, wielding his precious sword with moves swift as shooting stars, and he battered Sha Seng until his strength gave way and he could no longer hold out, so that he turned to flee.早被他逼住寶杖，掄開大手，撾住沙僧，挾在左脅下；But he was already pinned down, his precious staff pressed back, and the fiend swung his great hand round, seized Sha Seng, and tucked him under his left arm;將右手去馬上拿了三藏，腳尖兒鉤著行李，張開口咬著馬鬃；with his right hand he snatched Sanzang off the horse, hooked the luggage with the tip of his toe, and opened his mouth to bite hold of the horse's mane;使起攝法，把他們一陣風，都拿到蓮花洞裡，厲聲高叫道：「哥哥！then, using a spell of capture, he swept all of them away in a single gust of wind, carrying them all to the Lotus Cave, and called out loudly in a stern voice, "Brother!這和尚都拿來了。」I've brought all the monks!"

老魔聞言，大喜道：「拿來我看。」二魔道：「這不是？」老魔道：「賢弟呀，又錯拿來了也。」二魔道：「你說拿唐僧的。」老魔道：「是便就是唐僧，只是還不曾拿住那有手段的孫行者。Hearing this, the Old Fiend was overjoyed and said, "Bring them here for me to see." The Second Fiend said, "Isn't this them?" The Old Fiend said, "Good brother, you've caught the wrong ones again." The Second Fiend said, "You told me to catch Tang Seng." The Old Fiend said, "Tang Seng it is indeed, but you still haven't caught that Sun Wukong with all his skill.須是要拿住他，才好吃唐僧哩；He must be caught before it will be safe to eat Tang Seng;若不曾拿得他，切莫動他的人。if he hasn't yet been caught, we must on no account touch his master.那猴王神通廣大，變化多般，我們若吃了他師父，他肯甘心？That Monkey King has vast divine powers and many transformations — if we were to eat his master, would he ever accept that quietly?來那門前吵鬧，莫想能得安生。」二魔笑道：「哥啊，你也忒會擡舉人。He'd come make a ruckus right at our gate, and we'd never know a moment's peace again." The Second Fiend laughed and said, "Brother, you really do know how to build others up.若依你誇獎他，天上少有，地下全無；To hear you praise him, he's something rare even in Heaven and unmatched anywhere on earth;自我觀之，也只如此，沒甚手段。」老魔道：「你拿住了？」二魔道：「他已被我遣三座大山壓在山下，寸步不能舉移。but as I see it, he's nothing so special after all, no great skill to speak of." The Old Fiend said, "Have you caught him, then?" The Second Fiend said, "I have already summoned three great mountains to press him down beneath them — he cannot budge so much as an inch.所以才把唐僧、沙和尚連馬、行李，都攝將來也。」那老魔聞言，滿心歡喜道：「造化，造化。That's why I was able to snatch Tang Seng and Brother Sha, along with the horse and the luggage, and bring them all here." Hearing this, the Old Fiend was filled with joy and said, "What luck, what luck.拿住這廝，唐僧才是我們口裡的食哩。」叫小妖：「快安排酒來，且與你二大王奉一個得功的杯兒。」二魔道：「哥哥，且不要吃酒，叫小的們把豬八戒撈上水來吊起。」遂把八戒吊在東廊，沙僧吊在西邊，唐僧吊在中間，白馬送在槽上，行李收將進去。Once that fellow is caught, then Tang Seng will truly be food in our mouths." He called to the little demons, "Quickly prepare wine, and offer the Second Great King a cup in honor of his achievement." The Second Fiend said, "Brother, let's not drink wine yet — have the little ones fish Zhu Bajie up out of the water and string him up." So they hung Bajie up in the east corridor, hung Sha Seng in the west, hung Tang Seng in the middle, sent the white horse to the trough, and took the luggage inside.

老魔笑道：「賢弟好手段，兩次捉了三個和尚。The Old Fiend laughed and said, "Good brother, what fine skill — in two turns you've caught three monks.但孫行者雖是有山壓住，也須要作個法，怎麼拿他來湊蒸，才好哩。」二魔道：「兄長請坐。But although Sun Wukong is pinned down under a mountain, we still need to work some scheme to bring him in to complete the set for steaming, before it will really do." The Second Fiend said, "Elder brother, please sit.若要拿孫行者，不消我們動身，只教兩個小妖，拿兩件寶貝，把他裝將來罷。」老魔道：「拿甚麼寶貝去？」二魔道：「拿我的紫金紅葫蘆，你的羊脂玉淨瓶。」老魔將寶貝取出道：「差那兩個去？」二魔道：「差精細鬼、伶俐蟲二人去。」吩咐道：「你兩個拿著這寶貝，徑至高山絕頂，將底兒朝天，口兒朝地，叫一聲：『孫行者。』他若應了，就已裝在裡面，隨即貼上『太上老君急急如律令奉敕』的帖兒，他就一時三刻化為膿了。」二小妖叩頭，將寶貝領出去拿行者不題。If we want to catch Sun Wukong, there's no need for us to go ourselves — just send two little demons with two treasures, and they can bag him and bring him in." The Old Fiend said, "What treasures shall they take?" The Second Fiend said, "Take my Purple-Gold Red Gourd, and your Mutton-Fat Jade Vase." The Old Fiend brought out the treasures and said, "Which two shall be sent?" The Second Fiend said, "Send Sharp-Eyed Ghost and Clever Bug." He instructed them, "The two of you take these treasures straight to the very summit of the highest peak, turn the bottom toward the sky and the mouth toward the ground, and call out once, 'Sun Wukong!' If he answers, he will already be sealed inside; then at once paste on the slip that reads 'By command of the Most High Lord Lao, in accordance with the statutes, at once, at once,' and within an hour or two he will melt into pus." The two little demons kowtowed, took the treasures, and went out to catch the Pilgrim; we need not tell of that further here.

卻說那大聖被魔使法壓住在山根之下，遇苦思三藏，逢災念聖僧。Now to tell of the Great Sage, pinned down at the foot of the mountain by the fiend's magic — in his suffering he thought of Sanzang, and in his misfortune he called to mind the holy monk.厲聲叫道：「師父啊，想當時你到兩界山，揭了壓帖，老孫脫了大難，秉教沙門。He cried out in a piercing voice, "Master! To think that when you came to Liangjie Mountain and tore off the seal, old Monkey escaped that great calamity and took up the teachings of the Buddhist faith.感菩薩賜與法旨，我和你同住同修，同緣同相，同見同知。Grateful for the Bodhisattva's bestowal of her sacred decree, you and I have dwelt together and cultivated together, shared the same karmic bond and the same outward form, the same views and the same understanding.乍想到了此處，遭逢魔障，又被他遣山壓了。Yet who would have thought that on reaching this place, I would run into a demon's obstruction and be pinned down again beneath a mountain he summoned.可憐，可憐！How pitiful, how pitiful!你死該當，只難為沙僧、八戒與那小龍化馬一場。If you should die it would only be your due, but it would be hard on Sha Seng and Bajie, and on that little dragon who transformed himself into a horse, all for nothing.這正是：樹大招風風撼樹，人為名高名喪人。」嘆罷，那珠淚如雨。This is truly a case of: a big tree invites the wind, and the wind shakes the tree; a man rises to fame, and fame brings a man down." Having sighed this out, his tears fell like rain.

早驚了山神、土地與五方揭諦神眾，會金頭揭諦道：「這山是誰的？」土地道：「是我們的。」「你山下壓的是誰？」土地道：「不知是誰。」揭諦道：「你等原來不知。This soon alarmed the Mountain God, the Local Deity, and the Guardians of the Five Directions, who gathered together; the Golden-Headed Guardian said, "Whose mountain is this?" The Local Deity said, "It is ours." "Then who is it that lies pinned beneath your mountain?" The Local Deity said, "We don't know who it is." The Guardian said, "So you really don't know.這壓的是五百年前大鬧天宮的齊天大聖孫悟空行者。The one pinned here is Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the Pilgrim who threw Heaven into a great uproar five hundred years ago.如今皈依正果，跟唐僧做了徒弟。Now he has taken refuge and is bound for the fruits of righteousness, having become a disciple following Tang Seng.你怎麼把山借與妖魔壓他？How could you lend your mountain to a fiend for pinning him down?你們是死了，他若有一日脫身出來，他肯饒你？You are as good as dead — if he ever gets free one day, do you think he'll spare you?就是從輕，土地也問個擺站，山神也問個充軍，我們也領個大不應是。」那山神、土地才怕道：「委實不知，不知。Even if judged leniently, the Local Deity would be sentenced to relay-station duty, and the Mountain God banished to the army, and we ourselves would be charged with grave negligence." Only then did the Mountain God and the Local Deity grow afraid and say, "We truly did not know, did not know.只聽得那魔頭念起遣山咒法，我們就把山移將來了。We only heard the demon chief recite the mountain-summoning spell, and so we moved the mountain here.誰曉得是孫大聖？」揭諦道：「你且休怕。Who could have known it was the Great Sage Sun?" The Guardian said, "Well, don't be afraid for now.律上有云：『不知者不坐罪。』我與你計較，放他出來，不要教他動手打我們。」土地道：「就沒理了，既放出來又打？」揭諦道：「你不知。The statutes say, 'One who did not know commits no crime.' Let me work something out with you — we'll release him, but see that he doesn't lay hands on us and beat us." The Local Deity said, "That wouldn't make sense — release him and still get beaten?" The Guardian said, "You don't understand.他有一條如意金箍棒，十分利害：打著的就死，挽著的就傷；He has a gold-banded rod that answers his every wish, and it is fearsome indeed: whatever it strikes dies, whatever it grazes is injured;磕一磕兒觔斷，擦一擦兒皮塌哩。」one knock and the sinews snap, one scrape and the skin caves in."

那土地、山神心中恐懼，與五方揭諦商議了，卻來到三山門外叫道：「大聖，山神、土地、五方揭諦來見。」好行者，他虎瘦雄心還在，自然的氣象昂昂，聲音朗朗道：「見我怎的？」土地道：「告大聖得知：遣開山，請大聖出來，赦小神不恭之罪。」行者道：「遣開山，不打你。」喝聲：「起去！」就如官府發放一般，那眾神念動真言咒語，把山仍遣歸本位，放起行者。The Local Deity and Mountain God, hearts full of dread, took counsel with the Guardians of the Five Directions, and then came before the gate of the three mountains and called out, "Great Sage, the Mountain God, the Local Deity, and the Guardians of the Five Directions have come to see you." Splendid Pilgrim — though the tiger was thin, his heroic spirit remained, and his bearing was naturally lofty, his voice ringing out clear as he said, "What do you want, seeing me?" The Local Deity said, "We report to the Great Sage: we will send the mountain away and beg the Great Sage to come forth, and pardon us lesser spirits our offense of disrespect." The Pilgrim said, "Send the mountain away, and I won't beat you." He gave a shout, "Rise!" — just like a magistrate handing down a ruling — and the assembled spirits recited their true spell, sending the mountain back to its original place, and freeing the Pilgrim.行者跳將起來，抖抖土，束束裙，耳後掣出棒來，叫山神、土地：「都伸過孤拐來，每人先打兩下，與老孫散散悶。」眾神大驚道：「剛才大聖已吩咐，恕我等之罪，怎麼出來就變了言語要打？」行者道：「好土地，好山神，你道不怕老孫，卻怕妖怪？」土地道：「那魔神通廣大，法術高強，念動真言咒語，拘喚我等在他洞裡，一日一個輪流當值哩。」Xingzhe jumped up, shook the dust off himself, tightened his skirt, and pulled his staff out from behind his ear, calling to the mountain god and the local deity: "Stretch your ankles over here — let me strike each of you twice first, just to relieve old Monkey's boredom." The gods were greatly alarmed: "Just now the Great Sage already pardoned our offense — why is it that the moment you come out, your words change and you want to beat us?" Xingzhe said: "Good local deity, good mountain god — you say you're not afraid of old Monkey, but you're afraid of the demon instead?" The local deity said: "That demon has vast magic power and superior sorcery; he recites true spells and incantations to summon us into his cave, one of us taking turns on duty each day."

行者聽見「當值」二字，卻也心驚。Hearing the words "on duty," Xingzhe too felt a stir of alarm in his heart.仰面朝天，高聲大叫道：「蒼天，蒼天！Facing upward toward the sky, he cried out loudly: "Heaven, Heaven!自那混沌初分，天開地闢，花果山生了我，我也曾遍訪明師，傳授長生秘訣。Ever since chaos first divided and heaven and earth opened apart, Flower-Fruit Mountain gave birth to me; I too once visited enlightened masters far and wide, who transmitted to me the secret of eternal life.想我那隨風變化，伏虎降龍，大鬧天宮，名稱大聖，更不曾把山神、土地欺心使喚。Think how I, following the wind in transformation, subduing tigers and dragons, greatly disturbing the Palace of Heaven, was named the Great Sage — never once did I use my power to make servants of mountain gods or local deities.今日這個妖魔無狀，怎敢把山神、土地喚為奴僕，替他輪流當值？Today this outrageous demon — how dare he call mountain god and local deity his slaves, making them take turns on duty for him?天啊！Heaven!既生老孫，怎麼又生此輩？」Since old Monkey was born, why must such a creature as this also be born?"

那大聖正感嘆間，又見那山凹裡霞光焰焰而來。Just as the Great Sage was sighing in this manner, he saw radiant light blazing forth from within the mountain hollow.行者道：「山神、土地，你既在這洞中當值，那放光的是甚物件？」土地道：「那是妖魔的寶貝放光，想是有妖精拿寶貝來降你。」行者道：「這個卻好耍子兒啊。Xingzhe said: "Mountain god, local deity — since you're on duty in this cave, what is that object giving off light?" The local deity said: "That's the glow from the demon's treasure; it must be that some spirit is bringing a treasure to try to subdue you." Xingzhe said: "Now this will be good sport.我且問你，他這洞中有甚人與他相往？」土地道：「他愛的是燒丹煉藥，喜的是全真道人。」行者道：「怪道他變個老道士，把我師父騙去了。Let me ask you — who comes and goes with him in this cave?" The local deity said: "What he loves is refining cinnabar and concocting elixirs; what delights him are Complete-Perfection Daoist priests." Xingzhe said: "No wonder he transformed into an old Daoist priest and tricked my master away.既這等，你都且記打，回去罷。Since that's how things stand, you still owe me your beating — go on back now.等老孫自家拿他。」那眾神俱騰空而散。Let old Monkey capture him himself." With that, all the gods soared into the sky and scattered.

這大聖搖身一變，變做個老真人。The Great Sage shook himself and transformed into an old Perfected Immortal.你道他怎生打扮：Do you wish to know how he was dressed?

不多時，那兩個小妖到了。Before long, the two little demons arrived.行者將金箍棒伸開，那妖不曾防備，絆著腳，撲的一跌。Xingzhe stretched out his gold-banded staff; the demon, not expecting it, tripped over his foot and fell flat with a thud.爬起來，才看見行者，口裡嚷道：「憊懶，憊懶！Climbing back up, he finally saw it was Xingzhe and shouted: "How careless, how careless!若不是我大王敬重你這行人，就和你比較起來。」行者陪笑道：「比較甚麼？If it weren't that our Great King holds you traveling clergy in respect, I'd settle accounts with you." Xingzhe said with a fawning smile: "Settle what?道人見道人，都是一家人。」那怪道：「你怎麼睡在這裡絆我一跌？」行者道：「小道童見我這老道人，要跌一跌兒做見面錢。」那妖道：「我大王見面錢只要幾兩銀子，你怎麼跌一跌兒做見面錢？When one Daoist meets another, we're all one family." The demon said: "Then why were you lying here to trip me up?" Xingzhe said: "Little Daoist lad, seeing you, this old Daoist wanted to take a tumble as a first-meeting gift." The demon said: "Our Great King's first-meeting gift is only a few taels of silver — why would you take a tumble as a first-meeting gift?你別是一鄉風，決不是我這裡道士。」行者道：「我當真不是，我是蓬萊山來的。」那妖道：「蓬萊山是海島神仙境界。」行者道：「我不是神仙，誰是神仙？」那妖卻回嗔作喜，上前道：「老神仙，老神仙，我等肉眼凡胎，不能識認，言語衝撞，莫怪，莫怪。」行者道：「我不怪你。You must be some stray wind from elsewhere — you're surely no Daoist priest from around here." Xingzhe said: "Indeed I'm not; I come from Penglai Mountain." The demon said: "Penglai Mountain is the realm of immortals on the sea isles." Xingzhe said: "If I'm not an immortal, then who is?" The demon turned his anger to delight, stepped forward and said: "Old Immortal, Old Immortal — we with our mortal eyes and common flesh failed to recognize you; our words gave offense, please don't take it amiss, don't take it amiss." Xingzhe said: "I take no offense.常言道：『仙體不踏凡地。』你怎知之？As the saying goes: 'An immortal's body never sets foot on mortal ground.' How would you know of it?我今日到你山上，要度一個成仙了道的好人。Today I've come to your mountain because I wish to lead a fine person across into immortality and the attainment of the Way.那個肯跟我去？」精細鬼道：「師父，我跟你去。」伶俐蟲道：「師父，我跟你去。」Which of you is willing to follow me?" Jingxi Gui said: "Master, I'll follow you." Lingli Chong said: "Master, I'll follow you."

行者明知故問道：「你二位從那裡來的？」那怪道：「自蓮花洞來的。」「要往那裡去？」那怪道：「奉我大王教命，拿孫行者去的。」行者道：「拿那個？」那怪又道：「拿孫行者。」孫行者道：「可是跟唐僧取經的那個孫行者麼？」那妖道：「正是，正是。Xingzhe, knowing full well, asked anyway: "Where have you two come from?" The demon said: "From Lotus-Flower Cave." "Where are you bound?" The demon said: "By order of our Great King, to capture Sun Xingzhe." Xingzhe said: "Capture whom?" The demon said again: "Capture Sun Xingzhe." Sun Xingzhe said: "Could that be the Sun Xingzhe who escorts Tang Seng to fetch the scriptures?" The demon said: "Exactly, exactly.你也認得他？」行者道：「那猴子有些無禮。Do you know him too?" Xingzhe said: "That monkey is rather ill-mannered.我認得他，我也有些惱他。I know him, and I bear him something of a grudge myself.我與你同拿他去，就當與你助功。」那怪道：「師父，不須你助功。Let me go along with you to catch him — it will count as lending you help." The demon said: "Master, there's no need for your help.我二大王有些法術，遣了三座大山，把他壓在山下，寸步難移，教我兩個拿寶貝來裝他的。」行者道：「是甚寶貝？」精細鬼道：「我的是紅葫蘆，他的是玉淨瓶。」行者道：「怎麼樣裝他？」小妖道：「把這寶貝的底兒朝天，口兒朝地，叫他一聲，他若應了，就裝在裡面；Our Second Great King has some sorcery; he sent three mountains down to press him underneath so he can't move an inch, and sent the two of us to bring treasures to bag him." Xingzhe said: "What treasures are they?" Jingxi Gui said: "Mine is the red gourd; his is the jade vase." Xingzhe said: "How do you bag him with them?" The little demon said: "You turn the bottom of the treasure up toward the sky and the mouth down toward the ground, call his name once, and if he answers, he's bagged inside;貼上一張『太上老君急急如律令奉敕』的帖子，他就一時三刻，化為膿了。」行者見說，心中暗驚道：「利害，利害！then you paste on a slip that reads 'By Decree of Taishang Laojun, Urgent as Law,' and within the space of an hour and a half he'll dissolve into pus." Hearing this, Xingzhe was secretly startled at heart: "Formidable, formidable!當時日值功曹報信，說有五件寶貝，這是兩件了。Earlier the Day-Duty Officer reported that there were five treasures — these make two of them.不知那三件又是甚麼東西？」行者笑道：「二位，你把寶貝借我看看。」那小妖那知甚麼訣竅，就於袖中取出兩件寶貝，雙手遞與行者。I wonder what the other three might be?" Xingzhe said with a smile: "You two, lend me your treasures for a look." The little demons, having no notion of the trick behind it, drew the two treasures from their sleeves and handed them to Xingzhe with both hands.行者見了，心中暗喜道：「好東西，好東西。Seeing them, Xingzhe secretly rejoiced: "Fine things, fine things.我若把尾子一抉，颼的跳起走了，只當是送老孫。」忽又思道：「不好，不好。If I just gave my tail a flick and darted off in a whoosh, it would be as good as their giving these to old Monkey." But then he thought again: "No good, no good.搶便搶去，只是壞了老孫的名頭。Snatching them would be easy enough, but it would ruin old Monkey's good name.這叫做白日搶奪了。」復遞與他去道：「你還不曾見我的寶貝哩。」那怪道：「師父有甚寶貝？This would be called broad-daylight robbery." So he handed them back, saying: "You still haven't seen my treasure yet." The demon said: "Master, what treasure do you have?也借與我凡人看看壓災。」Lend it to us mortals too, so we may look it over and ward off calamity."

好行者，伸下手，把尾上毫毛拔了一根，捻一捻，叫：「變！」即變做一個一尺七寸長的大紫金紅葫蘆，自腰裡拿將出來道：「你看我的葫蘆麼？」那伶俐蟲接在手，看了道：「師父，你這葫蘆長大，有樣範，好看，卻只是不中用。」行者道：「怎的不中用？」那怪道：「我這兩件寶貝，每一個可裝千人哩。」行者道：「你這裝人的，何足稀罕？Good Xingzhe reached down, plucked a hair from his tail, twirled it, and shouted "Change!" — it at once became a large purple-gold red gourd a foot and seven inches long; he drew it out from his waist and said: "Do you see my gourd?" Lingli Chong took it in hand, examined it, and said: "Master, this gourd of yours is big and long and cuts a fine figure, but it's simply not much use." Xingzhe said: "How is it not useful?" The demon said: "These two treasures of ours can each hold a thousand people." Xingzhe said: "What's so remarkable about holding people?我這葫蘆，連天都裝在裡面哩。」那怪道：「就可以裝天？」行者道：「當真的裝天。」那怪道：「只怕是謊，就裝與我們看看才信；My gourd can hold even Heaven itself inside it." The demon said: "It can even hold Heaven?" Xingzhe said: "Truly, it can hold Heaven." The demon said: "I fear that's a lie — only if you truly bag Heaven for us to see will we believe it;不然，決不信你。」行者道：「天若惱著我，一月之間，常裝他七八遭，不惱著我，就半年也不裝他一次。」伶俐蟲道：「哥啊，裝天的寶貝，與他換了罷。」精細鬼道：「他裝天的，怎肯與我裝人的相換？」伶俐蟲道：「若不肯啊，貼他這個淨瓶也罷。」行者心中暗喜道：「葫蘆換葫蘆，餘外貼淨瓶：一件換兩件，其實甚相應。」即上前扯住那伶俐蟲道：「裝天可換麼？」那怪道：「但裝天就換，不換我是你的兒子。」行者道：「也罷，也罷，我裝與你們看看。」otherwise, we won't believe you at all." Xingzhe said: "If Heaven angers me, within a single month I often bag it seven or eight times over; if it doesn't anger me, then even in half a year I won't bag it once." Lingli Chong said: "Brother, a treasure that bags Heaven — let's trade him for it." Jingxi Gui said: "He can bag Heaven — why would he want to trade for one that only bags people?" Lingli Chong said: "If he won't agree, then let's throw in this vase as well." Xingzhe secretly rejoiced at heart: "Gourd for gourd, and a vase thrown in besides — one item traded for two, that's quite a fair bargain indeed." He stepped forward at once and took hold of Lingli Chong: "Will you trade for the one that bags Heaven?" The demon said: "As long as it truly bags Heaven, we'll trade — if we don't, may I be your son." Xingzhe said: "Very well, very well, I'll bag it for you to see."

好大聖，低頭捻訣，念個咒語，叫那日遊神、夜遊神、五方揭諦神：「即去與我奏上玉帝，說老孫皈依正果，保唐僧去西天取經，路阻高山，師逢苦厄。Good Great Sage — he bowed his head, formed a mudra, and recited a spell, summoning the Day-Patrol God, the Night-Patrol God, and the Five-Direction Revealing-Truth Gods: "Go at once and memorialize the Jade Emperor on my behalf, saying that old Monkey has taken refuge in the true fruit of enlightenment and is escorting Tang Seng to the Western Heaven to fetch scriptures; the road is barred by a high mountain, and my master has met with bitter hardship.妖魔那寶，吾欲誘他換之。The demon has a treasure, and I wish to lure him into trading it away.萬千拜上，將天借與老孫裝閉半個時辰，以助成功，若道半聲不肯，即上靈霄殿，動起刀兵。」With ten thousand bows I beg: lend Heaven to old Monkey to bag and shut away for half an hour, to help bring this to success — and if there is even half a syllable of refusal, I will go straight to the Hall of Miraculous Mist and take up arms."

那日遊神徑至南天門裡，靈霄殿下，啟奏玉帝，備言前事。The Day-Patrol God went straight to the South Heavenly Gate, down to the Hall of Miraculous Mist, and memorialized the Jade Emperor, relating the whole matter in full.玉帝道：「這潑猴頭，出言無狀。The Jade Emperor said: "That reckless monkey, speaking such outrageous words.前者觀音來說放了他，保護唐僧，朕這裡又差五方揭諦、四值功曹，輪流護持。Earlier Guanyin came and asked that he be released to protect Tang Seng, and I dispatched the Five-Direction Revealing-Truth Gods and the Four Duty Officers here to take turns guarding him.如今又借天裝，天可裝乎？」才說裝不得，那班中閃出哪吒三太子，奏道：「萬歲，天也裝得。」玉帝道：「天怎樣裝？」哪吒道：「自混沌初分，以輕清為天，重濁為地。Now he wants to borrow Heaven itself to bag — can Heaven be bagged?" Just as he was saying it could not be done, out from the ranks stepped Third Prince Nezha, who memorialized: "Your Majesty, Heaven can indeed be bagged." The Jade Emperor said: "How can Heaven be bagged?" Nezha said: "Since chaos first divided, the light and pure became Heaven, and the heavy and turbid became Earth.天是一團清氣而扶托瑤天宮闕，以理論之，其實難裝；Heaven is a mass of pure vapor upholding the halls of the Jasper Palace; by rights, it is truly hard to bag;但只孫行者保唐僧西去取經，誠所謂泰山之福緣，海深之善慶，今日當助他成功。」玉帝道：「卿有何助？」哪吒道：「請降旨意，往北天門問真武借皂雕旗，在南天門上一展，把那日月星辰閉了。but since Sun Xingzhe is escorting Tang Seng west to fetch scriptures — truly what is called good fortune as deep as Mount Tai, blessings as vast as the sea — today we ought to help him succeed." The Jade Emperor said: "What help do you propose, Worthy Minister?" Nezha said: "Grant your decree that I go to the North Heavenly Gate and borrow the Black Eagle Banner from Zhenwu, and unfurl it above the South Heavenly Gate, to shut away the sun, moon, and stars.對面不見人，捉白不見黑，哄那怪道，只說裝了天，以助行者成功。」玉帝聞言：「依卿所奏。」那太子奉旨，前來北天門，見真武，備言前事。With no one able to see another face to face, and white indistinguishable from black, we shall deceive that demon into believing Heaven has truly been bagged, and so help Xingzhe to succeed." Hearing this, the Jade Emperor said: "Let it be done as the Worthy Minister has memorialized." The prince, receiving the decree, went to the North Heavenly Gate, saw Zhenwu, and related the whole matter in full.那祖師隨將旗付太子。That Patriarch at once handed the banner over to the prince.

早有遊神急降大聖耳邊道：「哪吒太子來助功了。」行者仰面觀之，只見祥雲繚繞，果是有神。Already a patrol god had hastened down to the Great Sage's ear and said: "Prince Nezha has come to help you succeed." Xingzhe looked up to see auspicious clouds coiling and swirling about — sure enough, there were gods present.卻回頭對小妖道：「裝天罷。」小妖道：「要裝就裝，只管阿綿花屎怎的？」行者道：「我方才運神念咒來。」那小妖都睜著眼，看他怎麼樣裝天。He then turned back to the little demons and said: "Let's bag Heaven now." The little demon said: "If you're going to bag it, just bag it — why all this shilly-shallying?" Xingzhe said: "I was just now channeling my spirit and reciting the incantation." The little demons both stared wide-eyed, watching to see how he would go about bagging Heaven.這行者將一個假葫蘆兒拋將上去。Xingzhe then tossed a fake gourd up into the air.你想，這是一根毫毛變的，能有多重？Just think — this was made from a single hair; how much could it possibly weigh?被那山頂上風吹去，飄飄蕩蕩，足有半個時辰，方才落下。It was blown away by the wind atop the mountain peak, drifting and floating for a full half hour before it finally came down.只見那南天門上，哪吒太子把皂旗撥喇喇展開，把日月星辰俱遮閉了。Just then, above the South Heavenly Gate, Prince Nezha snapped open the black banner with a flutter, and covered the sun, moon, and stars entirely.真是乾坤墨染就，宇宙靛裝成。It was truly as if heaven and earth had been steeped in ink, and the whole universe dyed in indigo.二小妖大驚道：「才說話時，只好向午，卻怎麼就黃昏了？」行者道：「天既裝了，不辨時候，怎不黃昏？」「如何又這等樣黑？」行者道：「日月星辰都裝在裡面，外卻無光，怎麼不黑？」小妖道：「師父，你在那廂說話哩？」行者道：「我在你面前不是？」小妖伸手摸著道：「只見說話，更不見面目。The two little demons were greatly startled: "Just now when we were speaking, it was still about noon — how has it turned to dusk already?" Xingzhe said: "Now that Heaven's been bagged, there's no telling the time — how could it not be dusk?" "Then why is it so dark as this?" Xingzhe said: "The sun, moon, and stars are all bagged away inside; outside there's no light left — how could it not be dark?" The little demon said: "Master, where are you speaking from?" Xingzhe said: "Am I not right in front of you?" The little demon reached out and felt around, saying: "I can only hear your voice, I can't see your face at all.師父，此間是甚麼去處？」行者又哄他道：「不要動腳，此間乃是渤海岸上，若塌了腳，落下去啊，七八日還不得到底哩。」小妖大驚道：「罷罷罷，放了天罷，我們曉得是這樣裝了。Master, what place is this?" Xingzhe went on deceiving him: "Don't move your feet — this is the shore of the Bohai Sea; if you lose your footing and fall, it would take seven or eight days before you reached bottom." The little demon was greatly alarmed: "Enough, enough, enough — release Heaven, we understand now how it's bagged.若弄一會子，落下海去，不得歸家。」If we fool around any longer, we'll fall into the sea and never get home."

好行者，見他認了真實，又念咒語，驚動太子，把旗捲起，卻早見日光正午。Good Xingzhe — seeing that they truly believed it now, he recited the spell once more, signaling the prince, who rolled up the banner, and at once the sunlight stood again at high noon.小妖笑道：「妙啊！The little demon laughed: "Marvelous!妙啊！Marvelous!這樣好寶貝，若不換啊，誠為不是養家的兒子。」那精細鬼交了葫蘆，伶俐蟲拿出淨瓶，一齊兒遞與行者。Such a fine treasure as this — if we don't trade for it, we'd truly be unworthy sons, no good at providing for our house." Then Jingxi Gui handed over the gourd, and Lingli Chong took out the vase, and together they passed them to Xingzhe.行者卻將假葫蘆兒遞與小妖換了。Xingzhe in turn handed the fake gourd to the little demons in exchange.既換了寶貝，卻又幹事找絕：臍下拔一根毫毛，吹口仙氣，變作一個銅錢。Having completed the trade for the treasures, he went one step further to seal the matter thoroughly: he plucked a hair from below his navel, blew a breath of immortal breath on it, and turned it into a copper coin.叫道：「小童，你拿這個錢去買張紙來。」小妖道：「何用？」行者道：「我與你寫個合同文書。He called out: "Little lad, take this coin and go buy a sheet of paper." The little demon said: "What for?" Xingzhe said: "I'll draw up a contract with you.你將這兩件裝人的寶貝換了我一件裝天的寶貝，恐人心不平，向後去日久年深，有甚反悔不便，故寫此各執為照。」小妖道：「此間又無筆墨，寫甚文書？You've traded these two treasures that bag people for this one treasure of mine that bags Heaven — I fear that hearts may not stay content, and that as the days and years pass there might be some regret and inconvenience, so I'll write this up, each of us keeping a copy as proof." The little demon said: "There's no brush or ink here — what document could we write?我與你賭個咒罷。」行者道：「怎麼樣賭？」小妖道：「我兩件裝人之寶，貼換你一件裝天之寶，若有反悔，一年四季遭瘟。」行者笑道：「我是決不反悔；Let's just swear an oath instead." Xingzhe said: "How shall we swear it?" The little demon said: "We've traded our two treasures that bag people for your one treasure that bags Heaven — if either side goes back on it, may we suffer plague all four seasons of the year." Xingzhe laughed: "I will certainly never go back on it;如有反悔，也照你四季遭瘟。」and if I do, let the same plague fall on me all four seasons, just as on you."

說了誓，將身一縱，把尾子趬了一趬，跳在南天門前，謝了哪吒太子麾旗相助之功。Having sworn the oath, he sprang up with a leap of his body, gave his tail a flick, and jumped down before the South Heavenly Gate, where he thanked Prince Nezha for the merit of waving the banner to help him.太子回宮繳旨，將旗送還真武不題。The prince returned to the palace to report the completion of his mission, and returned the banner to Zhenwu — no more need be said of that.這行者佇立霄漢之間，觀看那個小妖。Xingzhe stood still there amid the clouds of the heavens, watching those two little demons.

畢竟不知怎生區處，且聽下回分解。What arrangements he finally made is not yet known — listen to the explanation given in the next chapter.

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Silver Horn, the younger demon king, disguises himself as an injured Daoist to trick the tender-hearted Tripitaka into carrying him, then crushes the monk under his own weight and calls three mountains, Sumeru, Mount Tai and Emei, down onto Wukong's shoulders to pin him while the pilgrims are seized. For once the Great Sage is genuinely trapped, staggering under a weight that would flatten an ordinary immortal.

Wukong summons the local mountain gods to bear the peaks in his place and slips free, then learns that the demons own five treasures, among them a gourd and a jade vase that suck a person in and dissolve him the moment he answers to his own name. He begins to plot, waylaying the demons' errand-messengers and stealing their gear by trickery rather than meeting the treasures head-on.

When it was written 背景

This 回 is the heart of the Level-Top Mountain arc and one of the novel's best contests of wits, because Wukong's raw strength is useless against a gourd that beats him by getting him to speak. The three-mountains ordeal and the name-calling treasures are the images to hold. Learners should watch the shift from force to cunning, and note the demons' one weakness, their own magic works by names, which is the loose thread Wukong will keep pulling to the arc's end.

Words in this chapter 生词

僧sēng僧sēng — (bound form) Buddhist monk (abbr. for 僧伽 (sēng qié))
妖yāo妖yāo — goblin · witch · devil · bewitching · enchanting · monster · phantom · demon
馱duòHSK 7-9馱duò — load carried by a pack animal (HSK 7-9)
諦dì諦dì — to examine · truth (Buddhism)
孫sūn孫sūn — grandson · descendant
葫hú葫hú — used in 葫蘆 (hú lu)
遣qiǎn遣qiǎn — (bound form) to dispatch; to send · (bound form) to drive away; to dispel
吒zhā吒zhā — used for the sound "zha" in the names of certain legendary figures (e.g. 哪吒 (Né zhā)) · Taiwan pr. (zhà)
摜guàn摜guàn — to fling · to fall · to wear
諕háo諕háo — to intimidate
啊āHSK 2啊ā — interjection of surprise · Ah! · Oh! (HSK 2)
裡lǐHSK 1裡lǐ — lining · interior · inside · internal · also written 裏 (lǐ) (HSK 1)