星官醫治 The Star Officer Heals Them
大聖聞言，即同出東天門，直至西梁國，望見毒敵山不遠，行者指道：「此山便是。」星官按下雲頭，同行者至石屏前山坡之下。沙僧見了道：「二哥起來，大哥請得星官來了。」那獃子還侮著嘴道：「恕罪，恕罪。有病在身，不能行禮。」星官道：「你是個修行之人，何病之有？」八戒道：「早間與那妖精交戰，被他著我唇上扎了一下，至今還疼哩。」星官道：「你上來，我與你醫治醫治。」獃子才放了手，口裡哼哼唧唧道：「千萬治治，待好了謝你。」大圣闻言，即同出东天门，直至西梁国，望见毒敌山不远，行者指道：「此山便是。」星官按下云头，同行者至石屏前山坡之下。沙僧见了道：「二哥起来，大哥请得星官来了。」那呆子还侮着嘴道：「恕罪，恕罪。有病在身，不能行礼。」星官道：「你是个修行之人，何病之有？」八戒道：「早间与那妖精交战，被他着我唇上扎了一下，至今还疼哩。」星官道：「你上来，我与你医治医治。」呆子才放了手，口里哼哼唧唧道：「千万治治，待好了谢你。」
逐句解 Line by line
Hearing this, the Great Sage went out with him at once by the Eastern Gate of Heaven and made straight for the Kingdom of Western Liang. Seeing Poison-Foe Mountain not far off, Pilgrim pointed and said, “That is the mountain.”
望見 is to catch sight of at a distance. No NT or polyphonic direct-verify graph falls in this segment.
The Star Officer brought his cloud down, and together with Pilgrim came to the foot of the slope before the stone screen.
⚠ 同行者 is 同 plus 行者 — together WITH the Pilgrim — and is not the word 同行. pypinyin's phrase dictionary reads it as tóngháng and bakes 行 as háng, which would be wrong; the reading is xíng and is specified by hand. This is one of the two 行 traps located at the chapter kickoff.
Sha Monk saw them and said, “Second brother, get up! Eldest brother has managed to fetch the Star Officer.”
請得 takes the attainment dé. Both 了 are aspectual and take positional specs.
The idiot, still with a hand over his mouth, said, “Pardon me, pardon me. I have a sickness upon me and cannot make my bow.”
侮著 is durative zhe, 侮 again standing for 摀. 行禮 takes 行 as xíng, to perform a rite. The 不 stays bù before the second tone of 能.
The Star Officer said, “You are a man in religious practice. What sickness should you have?”
修行 takes 行 as xíng. 何病之有 is the literary inversion, the object fronted before 有. No guarded graph falls in this segment.
Bajie said, “This morning I fought with that fiend, and she jabbed me once upon the lip with it, and it aches to this hour.”
早間 takes 間 as jiān. 著我唇上 uses 著 in the contact sense, zhuó, exactly as Pilgrim's own account of his wound did — the two clauses are built the same way.
The Star Officer said, “Come up here, and let me physic it for you.”
醫治醫治 is a verbal reduplication of casual aspect. No guarded graph falls in this segment.
Only then did the idiot take his hand away; and mumbling and whimpering he said, “By all means physic it — and when it is better I shall thank you.”
哼哼唧唧 is a mimetic reduplication and keeps its default reading. 待好了謝你 makes the gratitude conditional on the cure, which is the joke.
Bajie's excuse for not bowing is that he has a sickness upon him, and the Star Officer's reply is the driest line in the chapter: 你是個修行之人，何病之有 — you are a man in religious practice; what sickness should you have? It is a theological objection raised as small talk. The novel does not have Bajie answer it; he simply describes what happened to his lip, which is its own kind of answer.
The cure, when it comes, has no apparatus whatever. The officer passes his hand once across the place and blows a breath on it, and the pain is gone. No spell is spoken, no medicine given, nothing is fetched from heaven. After four thousand graphs in which a rod, a rake, a Bodhisattva and the whole celestial bureaucracy have failed to make any impression on this poison, it is undone by a touch — because the creature who touches it is the natural enemy of scorpions and was always going to be.
Bajie's gratitude is characteristically hedged. 待好了謝你 — when it is better, I shall thank you — which reserves the thanks until the treatment has been shown to work. He has just been mumbling and whimpering with his hand over his mouth, and he still finds room for a condition.