徑上花果 Eight Rules Sets Off Alone
沙僧說：「二哥，他那洞前有千數小猴，你一人恐弄他不過，反為不美。」八戒笑道：「不怕，不怕。」急出門，縱著雲霧，徑上花果山尋取行李不題。沙僧说：「二哥，他那洞前有千数小猴，你一人恐弄他不过，反为不美。」八戒笑道：「不怕，不怕。」急出门，纵着云雾，径上花果山寻取行李不题。
逐句解 Line by line
Sha Monk said: "Second brother, there are a thousand-odd little monkeys before that cave. I fear that you alone could not handle them, and it would turn out badly instead."
千數 shù, the number, not the shǔ of counting. 反為 wéi, the copular 'turn out to be', against the purposive wèi.
Eight Rules said with a laugh: "No fear, no fear."
不怕，不怕 — the doubling here is emphasis by one speaker, unlike the doubled lines earlier in the chapter, which were two speakers at once.
He hurried out of the door, mounted the cloud-mist, and went straight up to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit to fetch the luggage — of which no more here.
縱著 zhe, durative. 不題 'no more of this here' closes the thread; the narrative will not return to Eight Rules for the rest of the batch.
Sha Monk's caution is well founded and Eight Rules waves it away in four graphs. The exchange is a small character study: Sha Monk counts the odds, Eight Rules does not, and the novel lets both be right in their own register — the odds really are bad, and Eight Rules really will manage it.
不題 is a storyteller's device for parking a thread, and its placement here is deliberate. The narrative drops Eight Rules mid-errand and swings to the underworld, so that the reader spends the next several passages knowing that a raid is under way somewhere off-stage. The chapter has been running two plots since Sha Monk turned back, and this is the moment it lets them separate cleanly.