救出悟空
Freed from the Mountain
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却说唐僧听得这一声大叫，吓了一跳。原来他出了长安不久，两个随从便在双叉岭被妖怪吃了，幸亏猎户刘伯钦救了他，一路护送到此。刘伯钦道：“这山旧名五行山，后来改名两界山，山那边便不是大唐的地界了。我听老人家说，王莽篡汉之时，天降此山，山下压着一个神猴，冻不死，也饿不死。这叫声定是他。长老莫怕，我们下去看看。”
二人走到山脚，果然见一个石匣之中，露出一只猴子的头来。那猴子尖嘴缩腮，火眼金睛，头上堆着青苔，连耳朵上都长了青草。他伸出一只手，乱招着叫道：“师父，你怎么此时才来？你来得正好！救我出来，我护送你往西天去！”
唐僧问：“你是何人？”猴子道：“我是五百年前大闹天宫的齐天大圣，只因犯了欺天之罪，被佛祖压在此处。前些时观音菩萨来过，劝我不再行凶，等东土取经人来救我。我愿保他西去，做他的徒弟。”唐僧又问：“我却怎么救得你？”猴子道：“这山顶上有如来的金字封条，你只上去把封条揭下来，我就出来了。”
唐僧与刘伯钦攀藤附葛，爬到山顶，果见金光万道，瑞气千条，一块方方正正的大石上贴着一张封条，上有六个金字。唐僧跪下拜祷了一番，才上前将封条轻轻揭了下来。只听一阵香风，把封条刮到空中，有声音叫道：“我们是看守大圣的神将。今日他的灾难已满，我们回去交还这封条了！”
二人下山，那猴子又叫道：“你们走远一些，我要出来了，莫惊了你们！”他们只得往东走了五七里远，忽听得一声巨响，真个是地裂山崩。众人正在惊慌，那猴子早已到了唐僧马前，赤条条地跪下，叫道：“师父，我出来也！”他对唐僧拜了四拜，又谢过了刘伯钦。
唐僧问他姓名，猴子道：“我姓孙，法名悟空。”唐僧欢喜道：“这名字倒也像我们佛门中人。你这个模样，就像那小头陀一般，我再给你起个别名，叫做‘行者’，好么？”悟空道：“好！好！好！”从此他又叫孙行者。刘伯钦见唐僧有了徒弟，便告辞回家去了。
师徒二人走了不多时，忽见一只猛虎咆哮而来。唐僧在马背上心惊胆战，悟空却欢喜道：“师父莫怕，他是送衣服给我的。”他从耳朵里取出一根绣花针，迎风一晃，变成碗口粗细的一条金箍棒，当头一棒，打得那老虎脑浆迸流，倒在地上。唐僧看了，又惊又喜：刘伯钦前日打虎，还与它斗了半日；今日悟空不费吹灰之力，只一棍便打死了，真是强中自有强中手！
悟空拔下一根毫毛，吹口仙气，变作一把尖刀，剥下虎皮，割下一大块四四方方的虎皮，围在腰间，又从路旁扯了一条葛藤束紧，便是一条虎皮裙。唐僧见他这般本事，心中十分欢喜，觉得这一路往西，有了依靠。
当晚，师徒二人借宿在一户人家。悟空借来针线，把虎皮裙缝好，唐僧又把自己的一件白布直裰送给他穿。第二天一早，二人上路，走不多远，忽然从路旁的树林里跳出六个人来……
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 招 | zhāo | trick; move (as in 一招) |
| 师父 | shīfu | master; teacher (in a craft, martial art, or religion) |
| 罪 | zuì | crime; guilt; sin |
| 徒弟 | túdì | apprentice; disciple |
| 山顶 | shāndǐng | mountaintop; summit |
| 一阵 | yízhèn | a burst; a spell; a fit (as in 一阵风) |
| 神 | shén | god; deity; spirit |
| 灾难 | zāinàn | disaster; catastrophe |
| 只得 | zhǐdé | to have to; to be obliged to |
| 众人 | zhòngrén | everybody; everyone; the crowd |
| 模样 | múyàng | appearance; look |
| 针 | zhēn | needle; pin |
English (for the teacher)
Now, when the Tang Monk heard that great shout, he jumped with fright. Not long after he had left Chang'an, his two servants had been eaten by demons on Double Fork Ridge, and luckily a hunter, Liu Boqin, had saved him and escorted him all the way here. Liu Boqin said: "This mountain used to be called the Five-Element Mountain, and later it was renamed the Mountain of Two Frontiers; on the other side of it, the land is no longer Great Tang's. I've heard the old folk say that when Wang Mang seized the Han throne, this mountain fell from the sky, and a divine monkey is pinned under it who can't die of cold or of hunger. That shout must be his. Don't be afraid, Elder; let's go down and take a look."
The two of them came to the foot of the mountain, and there, sure enough, in a stone box, a monkey's head was sticking out. The monkey had a pointed mouth and hollow cheeks and fiery golden eyes; moss was piled on his head, and green grass was growing out of his ears. He stuck out one hand and waved it about wildly, shouting: "Master, why have you only come now? You've come just in time! Get me out, and I'll escort you all the way to the West!"
The Tang Monk asked: "Who are you?" The monkey said: "I am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven who threw heaven into chaos five hundred years ago; for the crime of deceiving heaven, the Buddha pinned me here. A while ago the bodhisattva Guanyin came by and urged me to do no more harm and to wait for the pilgrim from the East to save me. I'm willing to guard him on his way west and be his disciple." The Tang Monk asked: "But how can I save you?" The monkey said: "On top of this mountain is the Buddha's seal with golden letters; just go up and peel it off, and I'll come out."
The Tang Monk and Liu Boqin climbed up, clutching at vines and creepers, and on the summit, sure enough, they saw ten thousand rays of golden light and a thousand wisps of lucky mist, and a paper seal stuck on a big square rock, with six golden characters on it. The Tang Monk knelt and prayed for a while, and only then stepped forward and gently peeled the seal off. A fragrant wind blew the seal up into the air, and a voice called out: "We are the divine generals who guard the Great Sage. Today his time of punishment is over, and we are going back to return this seal!"
When the two came down the mountain, the monkey called again: "Go further off, so I can come out without frightening you!" They had no choice but to walk five or seven li to the east, and suddenly there was a tremendous crash, as if the earth were splitting and the mountains falling. While everyone was still shaking with fear, the monkey was already kneeling in front of the Tang Monk's horse, stark naked, crying: "Master, I'm out!" He bowed four times to the Tang Monk, and thanked Liu Boqin too.
The Tang Monk asked his name, and the monkey said: "My surname is Sun, and my religious name is Wukong." The Tang Monk said happily: "That name sounds like one of us Buddhists already. You look just like a little wandering monk, so I'll give you a nickname as well: 'Pilgrim'. How's that?" Wukong said: "Good! Good! Good!" From then on he was also called Sun the Pilgrim. When Liu Boqin saw that the Tang Monk had a disciple, he said goodbye and went home.
Master and disciple had not gone far when a fierce tiger came roaring at them. The Tang Monk trembled on his horse, but Wukong said gleefully: "Don't be afraid, Master, he's bringing me some clothes." He took an embroidery needle out of his ear, waved it in the wind, and it became a golden-hooped staff as thick as a rice bowl; he brought it down on the tiger's head, and the tiger's brains burst out and it dropped to the ground. The Tang Monk watched in shock and delight: the other day, Liu Boqin had fought a tiger for half a day, but today Wukong had killed one with a single blow of his staff, without the least effort; truly, however strong you are, there is always someone stronger!
Wukong pulled out a hair, blew his magic breath on it, turned it into a sharp knife, skinned the tiger, cut a neat square from the hide, wrapped it round his waist, and tied it tight with a vine from the roadside, and there was a tiger-skin skirt. When the Tang Monk saw what he could do, he was overjoyed, and felt that on the long road west he now had someone to rely on.
That night master and disciple stayed with a family. Wukong borrowed a needle and thread and sewed up his tiger-skin skirt, and the Tang Monk gave him one of his own white cotton robes to wear. Early the next morning they set off, and before they had gone far, six men suddenly jumped out of the woods beside the road…