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屈認償命
A Mock Concession
行者道：「他說我昨日到城外打殺他兩個徒弟，是誰知證？我等且屈認了，著兩個和尚償命，還放兩個去取經。他又說我捽碎車輛，放了囚僧，此事亦無見證，料不該死，再著一個和尚領罪罷了。行者道：「他说我昨日到城外打杀他两个徒弟，是谁知证？我等且屈认了，着两个和尚偿命，还放两个去取经。他又说我捽碎车辆，放了囚僧，此事亦无见证，料不该死，再着一个和尚领罪罢了。
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行者道：「他說我昨日到城外打殺他兩個徒弟，是誰知證？
行者道：「他说我昨日到城外打杀他两个徒弟，是谁知证？
Pilgrim said, “He says that yesterday I went outside the city and beat two of his disciples to death — who is the witness to it?
行者: 行 = xíng. 知證 “a witness, one who knows and can attest.”
我等且屈認了，著兩個和尚償命，還放兩個去取經。
我等且屈认了，着两个和尚偿命，还放两个去取经。
Still, let us grant the charge under duress: have two of the monks pay with their lives, and let the other two go on to fetch the scriptures.
屈認 “to confess under compulsion.” Causative 著兩個和尚償命: 著 = zhuó, “have (them)…” 還放: 還 = hái, “still, and yet.”
他又說我捽碎車輛，放了囚僧，此事亦無見證，料不該死，再著一個和尚領罪罷了。
他又说我捽碎车辆，放了囚僧，此事亦无见证，料不该死，再着一个和尚领罪罢了。
He further says I smashed the carts and released the imprisoned monks — for this too there is no witness; I reckon it does not merit death, so let one more monk be made to bear the guilt, and there's an end of it.
Causative 再著一個: 著 = zhuó. 料不該死: 不 = bù. 領罪罷了: 罷 = bà (罷了 = bà le, “and that is that”), distinct from the hortative ba of 也罷.
總評 Commentary
Wukong's “concession” is a mockery of the whole proceeding: he offers to have his brothers executed one by one for crimes he demands witnesses for, exposing the charges as unproved by the very act of pretending to accept them. The tone is deadpan-absurd — haggling over how many monks to put to death — and sets up the sharper argument of the frame-up defence that follows.