第五十二回 · 盜兵縱火 Stealing the Weapons, Loosing the Fire — Journey to the West

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盜兵縱火 Stealing the Weapons, Loosing the Fire

行xíng者zhě見jiàn他tā關guān防fáng得de緊jǐn，寶bǎo貝bèi又yòu隨suí身shēn，不bù肯kěn除chú下xià，料liào偷tōu他tā的de不bù得de。跳tiào下xià床chuáng來lái，還hái變biàn做zuò促cù織zhī兒er，出chū了le房fáng門mén，徑jìng至zhì後hòu面miàn，又yòu聽tīng得dé龍lóng吟yín馬mǎ嘶sī。原yuán來lái那nà層céng門mén緊jǐn鎖suǒ，火huǒ龍lóng、火huǒ馬mǎ都dōu吊diào在zài裡lǐ面miàn。行xíng者zhě現xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，走zǒu近jìn門mén前qián，使shǐ個gè解jiě鎖suǒ法fǎ，念niàn動dòng咒zhòu語yǔ，用yòng手shǒu一yì抹mǒ，扢gǔ扠chā一yì聲shēng，那nà鎖suǒ雙shuāng鐄huáng俱jù就jiù脫tuō落luò。推tuī開kāi門mén，闖chuǎng將jiāng進jìn去qù觀guān看kàn，原yuán來lái那nà裡lǐ面miàn被bèi火huǒ器qì照zhào得de明míng晃huǎng晃huǎng的de，如rú白bái日rì一yì般bān。忽hū見jiàn東dōng西xī兩liǎng邊biān斜xié靠kào著zhe幾jǐ件jiàn兵bīng器qì，都dōu是shì太tài子zǐ的de砍kǎn妖yāo刀dāo等děng物wù，並bìng那nà火huǒ德dé的de火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn等děng物wù。行xíng者zhě映yìng火huǒ光guāng，週zhōu圍wéi看kàn了le一yí遍biàn，又yòu見jiàn那nà門mén背bèi後hòu一yì張zhāng石shí桌zhuō子zi上shàng有yǒu一yí個gè篾miè絲sī盤pán兒er，放fàng著zhe一yì把bǎ毫háo毛máo。大dà聖shèng滿mǎn心xīn歡huān喜xǐ，將jiāng毫háo毛máo拿ná起qǐ來lái，啊ā了le兩liǎng口kǒu熱rè氣qì，叫jiào聲shēng：「變biàn！」即jí變biàn作zuò三sān五wǔ十shí個gè小xiǎo猴hóu。教jiào他tā都dōu拿ná了le刀dāo、劍jiàn、杵chǔ、索suǒ、裘qiú輪lún及jí弓gōng、箭jiàn、槍qiāng、車chē、葫hú蘆lú、火huǒ鴉yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ馬mǎ，一yí應yìng套tào去qù之zhī物wù，𩣔kuà了le火huǒ龍lóng，縱zòng起qǐ火huǒ勢shì，從cóng裡lǐ邊biān往wǎng外wài燒shāo來lái。只zhǐ聽tīng得dé烘hōng烘hōng𤊨huò𤊨huò，撲pū撲pū乒pīng乒pīng，好hǎo便biàn似sì咋zǎ雷léi連lián炮pào之zhī聲shēng。慌huāng得de那nà些xiē大dà小xiǎo妖yāo精jīng夢mèng夢mèng查zhā查zhā的de，披pī著zhe被bèi，朦méng著zhe頭tóu，喊hǎn的de喊hǎn，哭kū的de哭kū，一yí個gè個gè走zǒu頭tóu無wú路lù，被bèi這zhè火huǒ燒shāo死sǐ大dà半bàn。美měi猴hóu王wáng得dé勝shèng回huí來lái，只zhǐ好hǎo有yǒu三sān更gēng時shí候hòu。行xíng者zhě见jiàn他tā关guān防fáng得de紧jǐn，宝bǎo贝bèi又yòu随suí身shēn，不bù肯kěn除chú下xià，料liào偷tōu他tā的de不bù得de。跳tiào下xià床chuáng来lái，还hái变biàn做zuò促cù织zhī儿er，出chū了le房fáng门mén，径jìng至zhì后hòu面miàn，又yòu听tīng得dé龙lóng吟yín马mǎ嘶sī。原yuán来lái那nà层céng门mén紧jǐn锁suǒ，火huǒ龙lóng、火huǒ马mǎ都dōu吊diào在zài里lǐ面miàn。行xíng者zhě现xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，走zǒu近jìn门mén前qián，使shǐ个gè解jiě锁suǒ法fǎ，念niàn动dòng咒zhòu语yǔ，用yòng手shǒu一yì抹mǒ，扢gǔ扠chā一yì声shēng，那nà锁suǒ双shuāng鐄huáng俱jù就jiù脱tuō落luò。推tuī开kāi门mén，闯chuǎng将jiāng进jìn去qù观guān看kàn，原yuán来lái那nà里lǐ面miàn被bèi火huǒ器qì照zhào得de明míng晃huǎng晃huǎng的de，如rú白bái日rì一yì般bān。忽hū见jiàn东dōng西xī两liǎng边biān斜xié靠kào着zhe几jǐ件jiàn兵bīng器qì，都dōu是shì太tài子zǐ的de砍kǎn妖yāo刀dāo等děng物wù，并bìng那nà火huǒ德dé的de火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn等děng物wù。行xíng者zhě映yìng火huǒ光guāng，周zhōu围wéi看kàn了le一yí遍biàn，又yòu见jiàn那nà门mén背bèi后hòu一yì张zhāng石shí桌zhuō子zi上shàng有yǒu一yí个gè篾miè丝sī盘pán儿er，放fàng着zhe一yì把bǎ毫háo毛máo。大dà圣shèng满mǎn心xīn欢huān喜xǐ，将jiāng毫háo毛máo拿ná起qǐ来lái，啊ā了le两liǎng口kǒu热rè气qì，叫jiào声shēng：「变biàn！」即jí变biàn作zuò三sān五wǔ十shí个gè小xiǎo猴hóu。教jiào他tā都dōu拿ná了le刀dāo、剑jiàn、杵chǔ、索suǒ、裘qiú轮lún及jí弓gōng、箭jiàn、枪qiāng、车chē、葫hú芦lú、火huǒ鸦yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ马mǎ，一yí应yìng套tào去qù之zhī物wù，𩣔kuà了le火huǒ龙lóng，纵zòng起qǐ火huǒ势shì，从cóng里lǐ边biān往wǎng外wài烧shāo来lái。只zhǐ听tīng得dé烘hōng烘hōng𤊨huò𤊨huò，扑pū扑pū乒pīng乒pīng，好hǎo便biàn似sì咋zǎ雷léi连lián炮pào之zhī声shēng。慌huāng得de那nà些xiē大dà小xiǎo妖yāo精jīng梦mèng梦mèng查zhā查zhā的de，披pī着zhe被bèi，朦méng着zhe头tóu，喊hǎn的de喊hǎn，哭kū的de哭kū，一yí个gè个gè走zǒu头tóu无wú路lù，被bèi这zhè火huǒ烧shāo死sǐ大dà半bàn。美měi猴hóu王wáng得dé胜shèng回huí来lái，只zhǐ好hǎo有yǒu三sān更gēng时shí候hòu。

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行xíng者zhě見jiàn他tā關guān防fáng得de緊jǐn，寶bǎo貝bèi又yòu隨suí身shēn，不bù肯kěn除chú下xià，料liào偷tōu他tā的de不bù得de。行xíng者zhě见jiàn他tā关guān防fáng得de紧jǐn，宝bǎo贝bèi又yòu随suí身shēn，不bù肯kěn除chú下xià，料liào偷tōu他tā的de不bù得de。

Pilgrim saw how close a guard he kept, that the treasure went about with his person and that he would not take it off, and reckoned it could not be stolen from him.

關防得緊 and 偷他的不得: both 得 = de, the complement marker, specified positionally. The sentence is the hinge of the chapter — the theft is abandoned before it is attempted, and everything that follows is second-best.

跳tiào下xià床chuáng來lái，還hái變biàn做zuò促cù織zhī兒er，出chū了le房fáng門mén，徑jìng至zhì後hòu面miàn，又yòu聽tīng得dé龍lóng吟yín馬mǎ嘶sī。跳tiào下xià床chuáng来lái，还hái变biàn做zuò促cù织zhī儿er，出chū了le房fáng门mén，径jìng至zhì后hòu面miàn，又yòu听tīng得dé龙lóng吟yín马mǎ嘶sī。

He jumped down from the bed, turned back into a cricket, went out at the chamber door, made straight for the rear, and heard again the dragon's cry and the neighing of horses.

還變做: 還 = hái ("again, back"), not huán. 促織兒: suffix 兒 = er; 出了: 了 = le; 聽得: 得 = dé.

原yuán來lái那nà層céng門mén緊jǐn鎖suǒ，火huǒ龍lóng、火huǒ馬mǎ都dōu吊diào在zài裡lǐ面miàn。原yuán来lái那nà层céng门mén紧jǐn锁suǒ，火huǒ龙lóng、火huǒ马mǎ都dōu吊diào在zài里lǐ面miàn。

It turned out that the inner door was fast locked, and the fire-dragons and fire-horses were all tethered inside.

Deictic 那層門: 那 = nà; 都 = dōu. 層 here is "the next door in," the second of a series.

行xíng者zhě現xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，走zǒu近jìn門mén前qián，使shǐ個gè解jiě鎖suǒ法fǎ，念niàn動dòng咒zhòu語yǔ，用yòng手shǒu一yì抹mǒ，扢gǔ扠chā一yì聲shēng，那nà鎖suǒ雙shuāng鐄huáng俱jù就jiù脫tuō落luò。行xíng者zhě现xiàn了le原yuán身shēn，走zǒu近jìn门mén前qián，使shǐ个gè解jiě锁suǒ法fǎ，念niàn动dòng咒zhòu语yǔ，用yòng手shǒu一yì抹mǒ，扢gǔ扠chā一yì声shēng，那nà锁suǒ双shuāng鐄huáng俱jù就jiù脱tuō落luò。

Pilgrim resumed his own form, went up to the door, worked a lock-loosing spell, recited the words, passed his hand across it — and with a snap the double bolt of that lock fell away.

現了: 了 = le; 解鎖法: 解 = jiě; deictic 那鎖: 那 = nà. 扢扠 is mimetic of the bolt giving way. 鐄 (U+9404, huáng) is the bolt or catch of a lock; it is the one graph in this chapter that OpenCC maps into the astral plane under t2s, and it is held in T2S_KEEP so that the simplified image stays legible.

推tuī開kāi門mén，闖chuǎng將jiāng進jìn去qù觀guān看kàn，原yuán來lái那nà裡lǐ面miàn被bèi火huǒ器qì照zhào得de明míng晃huǎng晃huǎng的de，如rú白bái日rì一yì般bān。推tuī开kāi门mén，闯chuǎng将jiāng进jìn去qù观guān看kàn，原yuán来lái那nà里lǐ面miàn被bèi火huǒ器qì照zhào得de明míng晃huǎng晃huǎng的de，如rú白bái日rì一yì般bān。

He pushed the door open, charged in and looked about: the place within was lit by the fire-weapons to a dazzling brightness, like broad day.

闖將進去: 將 = jiāng, directional. 觀看: 觀 = guān, 看 = kàn. Deictic 那裡面: 那 = nà; 照得: 得 = de, complement.

忽hū見jiàn東dōng西xī兩liǎng邊biān斜xié靠kào著zhe幾jǐ件jiàn兵bīng器qì，都dōu是shì太tài子zǐ的de砍kǎn妖yāo刀dāo等děng物wù，並bìng那nà火huǒ德dé的de火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn等děng物wù。忽hū见jiàn东dōng西xī两liǎng边biān斜xié靠kào着zhe几jǐ件jiàn兵bīng器qì，都dōu是shì太tài子zǐ的de砍kǎn妖yāo刀dāo等děng物wù，并bìng那nà火huǒ德dé的de火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn等děng物wù。

All at once he saw, propped at a slant on the east and west sides, several weapons — all of them the Prince's, the fiend-cleaving sabre and the rest, and with them the Fire Virtue's fire-bow and fire-arrows and the rest.

靠著: durative 著 = zhe; 都 = dōu. 太子: 子 = zǐ, the noun-morpheme. Deictic 那火德: 那 = nà. The six weapons are Nezha's, swallowed in Chapter 51.

行xíng者zhě映yìng火huǒ光guāng，週zhōu圍wéi看kàn了le一yí遍biàn，又yòu見jiàn那nà門mén背bèi後hòu一yì張zhāng石shí桌zhuō子zi上shàng有yǒu一yí個gè篾miè絲sī盤pán兒er，放fàng著zhe一yì把bǎ毫háo毛máo。行xíng者zhě映yìng火huǒ光guāng，周zhōu围wéi看kàn了le一yí遍biàn，又yòu见jiàn那nà门mén背bèi后hòu一yì张zhāng石shí桌zhuō子zi上shàng有yǒu一yí个gè篾miè丝sī盘pán儿er，放fàng着zhe一yì把bǎ毫háo毛máo。

Pilgrim, in the glare of the firelight, looked once round the whole circuit, and saw besides that on a stone table behind the door there stood a woven bamboo tray, and in it a handful of hairs.

看了一遍: 看 = kàn, 了 = le. 門背後: 背 = bèi; 石桌子: 石 = shí, suffix 子 = zi; 篾絲盤兒: 篾 = miè (split bamboo), suffix 兒 = er; 放著: 著 = zhe.

大dà聖shèng滿mǎn心xīn歡huān喜xǐ，將jiāng毫háo毛máo拿ná起qǐ來lái，啊ā了le兩liǎng口kǒu熱rè氣qì，叫jiào聲shēng：「變biàn！」即jí變biàn作zuò三sān五wǔ十shí個gè小xiǎo猴hóu。大dà圣shèng满mǎn心xīn欢huān喜xǐ，将jiāng毫háo毛máo拿ná起qǐ来lái，啊ā了le两liǎng口kǒu热rè气qì，叫jiào声shēng：「变biàn！」即jí变biàn作zuò三sān五wǔ十shí个gè小xiǎo猴hóu。

The Great Sage's heart filled with delight. He took up the hairs, breathed two mouthfuls of warm breath on them, and cried: "Change!" — whereupon they became thirty or fifty little monkeys.

將毫毛: 將 = jiāng, disposal; 啊了: 啊 = ā (the verb of breathing out; pypinyin gives the neutral particle), 了 = le. These are the hairs the ring took from him, kept as spoils — the one piece of plunder in the cave that is still his to use.

教jiào他tā都dōu拿ná了le刀dāo、劍jiàn、杵chǔ、索suǒ、裘qiú輪lún及jí弓gōng、箭jiàn、槍qiāng、車chē、葫hú蘆lú、火huǒ鴉yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ馬mǎ，一yí應yìng套tào去qù之zhī物wù，𩣔kuà了le火huǒ龍lóng，縱zòng起qǐ火huǒ勢shì，從cóng裡lǐ邊biān往wǎng外wài燒shāo來lái。教jiào他tā都dōu拿ná了le刀dāo、剑jiàn、杵chǔ、索suǒ、裘qiú轮lún及jí弓gōng、箭jiàn、枪qiāng、车chē、葫hú芦lú、火huǒ鸦yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ马mǎ，一yí应yìng套tào去qù之zhī物wù，𩣔kuà了le火huǒ龙lóng，纵zòng起qǐ火huǒ势shì，从cóng里lǐ边biān往wǎng外wài烧shāo来lái。

He set them all to taking up the sabre, the sword, the mace, the rope, the fur-wheel, and the bow, arrows, spear, cart, gourd, fire-crows, fire-rats and fire-horses — the whole stock of things the ring had carried off; then he mounted the fire-dragon, roused the fire, and came burning outward from within.

教 = jiào (causative); 都 = dōu; both 了 = le, positional. 一應: 應 = yìng ("the whole set of"), which lifts the graph from a first-tone default to a fourth and moves 一 from the mechanical yì to yí — a §2(a) override. The verb before 了火龍 is U+298D4, an astral graph with no reading in any standard source; it is composed of the horse radical with 夸 as phonetic, and the sense is "to mount, to bestride" — read here as kuà, on the model of 跨. 裘輪 is transcribed as the Sìdétáng text has it; the item has no standing elsewhere as a weapon-name.

只zhǐ聽tīng得dé烘hōng烘hōng𤊨huò𤊨huò，撲pū撲pū乒pīng乒pīng，好hǎo便biàn似sì咋zǎ雷léi連lián炮pào之zhī聲shēng。只zhǐ听tīng得dé烘hōng烘hōng𤊨huò𤊨huò，扑pū扑pū乒pīng乒pīng，好hǎo便biàn似sì咋zǎ雷léi连lián炮pào之zhī声shēng。

There was nothing to be heard but a roaring and a crackling, a popping and a clattering, for all the world like the noise of splitting thunder and strings of crackers.

聽得: 得 = dé. The four mimetic syllables pair 烘烘 with the reduplicated astral U+242A8, read huò on its phonetic 或 — no Mandarin reading for the graph is recorded in pinyin.txt, kMandarin_8105, kXHC1983, kHanyuPinyin, kTGHZ2013 or zdic, so the reading is provisional; the received modern text substitutes 烈 here. 連炮: 炮 = pào (cannon, firecracker), not the páo of drug-roasting.

慌huāng得de那nà些xiē大dà小xiǎo妖yāo精jīng夢mèng夢mèng查zhā查zhā的de，披pī著zhe被bèi，朦méng著zhe頭tóu，喊hǎn的de喊hǎn，哭kū的de哭kū，一yí個gè個gè走zǒu頭tóu無wú路lù，被bèi這zhè火huǒ燒shāo死sǐ大dà半bàn。慌huāng得de那nà些xiē大dà小xiǎo妖yāo精jīng梦mèng梦mèng查zhā查zhā的de，披pī着zhe被bèi，朦méng着zhe头tóu，喊hǎn的de喊hǎn，哭kū的de哭kū，一yí个gè个gè走zǒu头tóu无wú路lù，被bèi这zhè火huǒ烧shāo死sǐ大dà半bàn。

It threw the imps, great and small, into such a fright that they went about dazed and muddled, one with the quilt still round him, another with his head still covered, some shouting, some weeping, every one of them with nowhere to run — and the fire burned the greater part of them to death.

慌得: 得 = de, complement. Deictic 那些: 那 = nà. Both 著 (披著, 朦著) = zhe, positional. 夢夢查查 is a vernacular binome for a dazed, half-woken state.

美měi猴hóu王wáng得dé勝shèng回huí來lái，只zhǐ好hǎo有yǒu三sān更gēng時shí候hòu。美měi猴hóu王wáng得dé胜shèng回huí来lái，只zhǐ好hǎo有yǒu三sān更gēng时shí候hòu。

The Handsome Monkey King came back victorious at just about the hour of the third watch.

得勝: 得 = dé. 三更: 更 = gēng, the night-watch — the third of five, roughly midnight; two watches have passed since he went in.

總評 Commentary

The burglary is abandoned in the first sentence, and the whole passage is what Wukong does instead. The reasoning is set out plainly — the guard is close, the treasure goes about on his person, he will not take it off, therefore it cannot be stolen — and it is the only piece of clean deduction anyone performs in the chapter. Everything after it is a raid on the storeroom: the lock spell, the inner door, the arsenal lit like day by the fire-weapons themselves.

The detail that repays attention is the tray of hairs. The ring has taken Wukong's cudgel, Nezha's six weapons and the entire fire-armoury, and the demon has stored the plunder tidily — the hairs plucked from Wukong's own body sit in a bamboo tray on a stone table behind the door. He breathes on them, makes fifty monkeys, and uses his own stolen property as the labour force to carry the rest of the stolen property out. It is the one moment in the arc where the ring's indiscriminate appetite works against its owner: everything it swallows is kept, and what is kept can be found.