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供獻俱空 The Offerings All Gone
虎力大仙道：「沒有歹人，如何把供獻都吃了？」鹿力大仙道：「卻像人吃的勾當，有皮的都剝了皮，有核的都吐出核，卻怎麼不見人形？」虎力大仙道：「没有歹人，如何把供献都吃了？」鹿力大仙道：「却像人吃的勾当，有皮的都剥了皮，有核的都吐出核，却怎么不见人形？」
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虎力大仙道：「沒有歹人，如何把供獻都吃了？」
虎力大仙道：「没有歹人，如何把供献都吃了？」
Tiger-Power the Immortal said, “There are no rogues about — how is it the offerings have all been eaten up?”
沒有: 沒 = méi. 供獻: 供 = gòng, “the offerings laid out.” 都 = dōu, “all.”
鹿力大仙道：「卻像人吃的勾當，有皮的都剝了皮，有核的都吐出核，卻怎麼不見人形？」
鹿力大仙道：「却像人吃的勾当，有皮的都剥了皮，有核的都吐出核，却怎么不见人形？」
Deer-Power the Immortal said, “It looks like the doing of men who eat: whatever had skin has been peeled of its skin, whatever had a pit has had the pit spat out — yet why is there no human shape to be seen?”
勾當: 當 = dàng, “affair, business, doings” (with a faint pejorative cast). 都 = dōu (×2), “in every case.” The tell-tale rinds and spat pits betray that living mouths, not gods, consumed the fruit.
The three immortals reason forensically over the ruined altar. Deer-Power's inference — peeled skins, spat pits, no human form — is sound detective work undone only by Wukong's disguise. The exchange sets up the immortals' fatal misreading in the next passage: unable to imagine impostors, they leap to the flattering conclusion that the gods themselves have dined.