猪八戒
Pigsy Joins
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却说师徒二人来到高老庄，天色已晚，正撞见一个年轻人急急忙忙往外走。悟空一把扯住他，问他去做什么。原来他是村里高家的仆人，正奉了主人之命，出去请人捉妖。悟空笑道：“你运气好，捉妖正是我的本行！”
高太公把他们请进家中，诉起苦来：“老汉有三个女儿，小女儿叫翠兰，三年前招了个女婿。他自称是福陵山人，姓猪。起初倒也勤快，耕田不用牛，收割不用刀，一家人都喜欢他。谁知后来他模样变了，长嘴大耳朵，脑后长着一片鬃毛，活像一头猪。他饭量又大，一顿要吃三五斗米饭，早上的点心也要百十个烧饼。更可恨的是，他会驾云，能飞沙走石，把翠兰关在后院，半年不让我们见面！”悟空道：“这有何难？今夜我就替你捉他。”
到了夜里，悟空先把翠兰救出来，送回她父亲身边，自己摇身一变，变作翠兰的模样，坐在房里等着。不多时，一阵狂风刮过，那妖怪来了，果然是个长嘴大耳的猪精。悟空故意躺在床上唉声叹气，不理睬他。妖怪问：“姐姐，你今日为何不高兴？”悟空叹道：“我爹娘嫌你丑，要请人来拿你呢。”妖怪笑道：“不怕，我有三十六般变化，又有九齿钉耙，怕什么和尚道士？我家住福陵山的云栈洞，名叫猪刚鬣，他们就是知道了，又能把我怎样？”悟空道：“他们说，要请五百年前大闹天宫的齐天大圣来。”那妖怪一听，吓了一跳：“既是这样，我还是走吧，这夫妻做不成了！”
他刚要出门，悟空一把揪住他，现出本相，喝道：“好妖怪，哪里走！你看看我是谁！”妖怪回头一看，只见一张毛脸，一副雷公嘴，吓得手软脚麻，挣脱了衣裳，化作一阵狂风逃走了。悟空记着他方才说的住处，紧追不舍，一直追到福陵山的云栈洞。
那妖怪举起九齿钉耙，与悟空斗在一处，一边打，一边说出自己的来历：“我本是天河里的天蓬元帅，只因喝醉了酒，调戏嫦娥，被玉帝重重责打了两千下，贬下凡间。谁知投胎时走错了路，投到了一头母猪的胎里，才变成这副模样！”两人从夜里斗到天亮，不分胜负。
悟空骂道：“你这妖怪，我是保东土唐僧往西天取经的！”那妖怪一听，“哐啷”一声，把钉耙丢在地上，问道：“那取经人在哪里？烦你引我见他。观音菩萨劝我吃斋念佛，叫我在这里等他，已经等了好多年了！”说罢，放火烧了云栈洞，跟着悟空回到高老庄，跪在唐僧面前，拜他为师。
那妖怪道：“菩萨已给我起了法名，叫猪悟能。”唐僧道：“好，好！你既然不吃荤腥，我再给你起个名字，叫作八戒。”从此，他便叫猪八戒。
临走时，八戒向高太公唱了个喏，说道：“丈人，好好照顾我老婆。万一我们取不成经，我还回来，照旧给你做女婿。”悟空喝道：“呆子，莫胡说！”众人都笑了。
如今唐僧有了两个徒弟。可是前面还有一条最宽的大河，河里住着一个脖子上挂着骷髅的妖怪……
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 招 | zhāo | trick; move (as in 一招) |
| 起初 | qǐchū | at first; originally |
| 模样 | múyàng | appearance; look |
| 捉 | zhuō | to catch; to capture |
| 为何 | wèihé | why; for what reason |
| 嫌 | xián | to dislike; to mind |
| 不成 | bùchéng | won't do; impossible |
| 回头 | huítóu | to turn one's head; to look back |
| 吓 | xià | to frighten; to scare; to be frightened |
| 引 | yǐn | to lead; to guide |
| 跪 | guì | to kneel |
| 众人 | zhòngrén | everybody; everyone; the crowd |
English (for the teacher)
Now, master and disciple came to Gao Village as night was falling, and ran right into a young man hurrying out. Wukong grabbed him and asked where he was going. He turned out to be a servant of the Gao family in the village, sent out on his master's orders to find someone to catch a demon. Wukong laughed: "You're in luck: catching demons is my trade!"
Old Mr Gao invited them into his house and poured out his troubles: "I have three daughters, and three years ago I took a husband for the youngest, Cuilan. He said he came from Fuling Mountain and his surname was Zhu — Pig. At first he was hard-working: he ploughed without an ox and harvested without a sickle, and the whole family liked him. But then his looks changed: a long snout, big ears and a ridge of bristles down the back of his head, just like a pig. He eats an enormous amount too: three to five pecks of rice at a sitting, and a hundred-odd flatbreads just for breakfast. Worse still, he can ride the clouds, and he can send sand flying and rocks rolling, and he's locked Cuilan in the back courtyard, and we haven't seen her for half a year!" Wukong said: "That's no trouble at all. I'll catch him for you tonight."
When night came, Wukong first rescued Cuilan and brought her back to her father, then with a shake of his body he turned into her very image and sat waiting in her room. Before long, a gust of wild wind swept past and the monster arrived: sure enough, a pig spirit with a long snout and big ears. Wukong lay on the bed sighing and moaning on purpose and paid him no attention. The monster asked: "Sweetheart, why are you unhappy today?" Wukong sighed: "My parents can't stand how ugly you are, and they're going to get someone to catch you." The monster laughed: "Don't worry; I have thirty-six transformations and a nine-toothed rake, so why should I fear any monk or Taoist? I live in the Cloud Path Cave on Fuling Mountain and my name is Zhu Ganglie, and even if they find out, what can they do to me?" Wukong said: "They say they're going to ask the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who wrecked heaven five hundred years ago." The moment the monster heard this, he jumped with fright: "In that case, I'd better go; this marriage is over!"
He was just going out of the door when Wukong grabbed him, showed his real form and shouted: "You monster, where do you think you're going? Take a good look at who I am!" The monster turned and saw a hairy face and a thunder god's beak; he went weak at the knees with fright, wriggled out of his clothes, turned into a wild wind and fled. Remembering where the monster had just said he lived, Wukong chased hard after him, all the way to the Cloud Path Cave on Fuling Mountain.
The monster raised his nine-toothed rake and fought Wukong, telling his story as he fought: "I was once Marshal Tianpeng of the River of Heaven, but because I got drunk and flirted with the Moon Goddess Chang'e, the Jade Emperor had me flogged two thousand times and banished me to the world below. But when I was reborn I took the wrong road and ended up in the belly of a sow, and that's how I came to look like this!" The two of them fought from night till dawn, and neither could win.
Wukong cursed: "You monster, I'm guarding the Tang Monk from the East on his way to fetch the scriptures from the West!" At these words the monster threw his rake to the ground with a clang and asked: "Where is the pilgrim? Please take me to see him. The bodhisattva Guanyin told me to keep a meatless diet and pray to the Buddha and wait for him here, and I've been waiting for years!" With that, he set fire to the Cloud Path Cave, followed Wukong back to Gao Village, knelt before the Tang Monk and took him as his master.
The monster said: "The bodhisattva has already given me a religious name: Zhu Wuneng." The Tang Monk said: "Good, good! Since you don't eat meat or strong-smelling food, I'll give you another name as well: Bajie, Eight Prohibitions." From then on, he was called Zhu Bajie: Pigsy.
As they were leaving, Bajie bowed and said to old Mr Gao: "Father-in-law, take good care of my wife. If we don't manage to get the scriptures, I'll come back and be your son-in-law again just as before." Wukong shouted: "Idiot, stop talking nonsense!" Everyone laughed.
Now the Tang Monk had two disciples. But ahead lay the widest river of all, and in it lived a monster with skulls hanging around his neck…