Journey to the West: The Four Pilgrims · chapter 18 of 25
A Very Strange Bride
奇怪的新娘
The monster son-in-law comes home to a bride who is not quite herself, and boasts about the one enemy in the world he is afraid of.
Read what you hear
- Zhu Bajie 不舒服？来，姐姐，让我好好看看你……
Bù shūfu? Lái, jiějie, ràng wǒ hǎohǎo kànkan nǐ…
Not feeling well? Come here, my dear, let me take a good look at you...
- Narrator 高老庄后边的房子里，悟空用手一推，妖怪就掉到了床下边。
Gāolǎo Zhuāng hòubian de fángzi lǐ, Wùkōng yòng shǒu yì tuī, yāoguài jiù diào dào le chuáng xiàbian.
In the back house at Gao Village, Wukong gave a shove, and the monster tumbled off the bed onto the floor.
- Zhu Bajie 姐姐，你怎么推我？三年了，你没推过我！
Jiějie, nǐ zěnme tuī wǒ? Sān nián le, nǐ méi tuī guo wǒ!
My dear, why did you push me? In three years you've never pushed me!
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- Sun Wukong 我爸爸妈妈说，你太丑了，还吃得太多。
Wǒ bàba māma shuō, nǐ tài chǒu le, hái chī de tài duō.
My mother and father say you're too ugly, and you eat too much.
- Zhu Bajie 我是有点儿丑，可是我吃得多，也做得多啊！
Wǒ shì yǒudiǎnr chǒu, kěshì wǒ chī de duō, yě zuò de duō a!
So I'm a bit ugly, but I eat a lot and I work a lot too!
- Sun Wukong 他们还找了人来抓你。
Tāmen hái zhǎo le rén lái zhuā nǐ.
And they've found someone to come and catch you.
- Zhu Bajie 抓我？老猪会三十六变，谁抓得到我？
Zhuā wǒ? Lǎo Zhū huì sānshíliù biàn, shéi zhuā de dào wǒ?
Catch me? Old Zhu knows thirty-six transformations. Who could ever catch me?
- Sun Wukong 三十六变？老孙有七十二变呢！
Sānshíliù biàn? Lǎo Sūn yǒu qīshí'èr biàn ne!
Thirty-six? Old Sun has seventy-two!
- Sun Wukong 三年了，我还不知道你家在哪儿呢。
Sān nián le, wǒ hái bù zhīdào nǐ jiā zài nǎr ne.
After three years, I still don't know where your home is.
- Zhu Bajie 福陵山，云栈洞！我叫猪刚鬣。
Fúlíng Shān, Yúnzhàn Dòng! Wǒ jiào Zhū Gāngliè.
Cloud-Path Cave on Fuling Mountain! My name is Zhu Ganglie.
- Sun Wukong 可是我爸爸找的人，本领很大，很大……
Kěshì wǒ bàba zhǎo de rén, běnlǐng hěn dà, hěn dà…
But the man my father found is very, very powerful...
- Zhu Bajie 老猪谁也不怕！只怕一个人……
Lǎo Zhū shéi yě bú pà! Zhǐ pà yí gè rén…
Old Zhu isn't afraid of anyone! Only one...
- Sun Wukong 谁？
Shéi?
Who?
- Zhu Bajie 齐天大圣！五百年前，他把天宫都打乱了！
Qítiān Dàshèng! Wǔbǎi nián qián, tā bǎ Tiāngōng dōu dǎ luàn le!
The Great Sage Equal to Heaven! Five hundred years ago he turned the whole Heavenly Palace upside down!
- Sun Wukong 我爸爸找来的人，叫孙悟空。
Wǒ bàba zhǎo lái de rén, jiào Sūn Wùkōng.
The man my father found is called Sun Wukong.
- Zhu Bajie 弼马温？那我走了！
Bìmǎwēn? Nà wǒ zǒu le!
Bimawen? Then I'm leaving!
- Sun Wukong 别走！你看看我是谁！
Bié zǒu! Nǐ kànkan wǒ shì shéi!
Don't go! Take a look at who I am!
- Narrator 妖怪一看，床上坐着一只猴子！他变成大风，飞出了门。
Yāoguài yí kàn, chuáng shàng zuò zhe yì zhī hóuzi! Tā biànchéng dà fēng, fēi chū le mén.
The monster looked: a monkey was sitting on the bed! He turned into a great wind and flew out the door.
- Sun Wukong 别跑！老孙追来了！
Bié pǎo! Lǎo Sūn zhuī lái le!
Don't run! Old Sun is right behind you!
- Zhu Bajie 这里是老猪的福陵山！弼马温，你还追？老猪的钉耙来了！
Zhèlǐ shì Lǎo Zhū de Fúlíng Shān! Bìmǎwēn, nǐ hái zhuī? Lǎo Zhū de dīngpá lái le!
This is Old Zhu's Fuling Mountain! Bimawen, you're still chasing me? Here comes Old Zhu's rake!
- Sun Wukong 好丑的猪！你的鼻子这么长，耳朵这么大！
Hǎo chǒu de zhū! Nǐ de bízi zhème cháng, ěrduo zhème dà!
What an ugly pig! Your nose is so long, and your ears are so big!
- Zhu Bajie 你这只猴子，也不好看！老猪是走错了门，才变成这样的。
Nǐ zhè zhī hóuzi, yě bù hǎokàn! Lǎo Zhū shì zǒu cuò le mén, cái biànchéng zhèyàng de.
You're no beauty either, monkey! Old Zhu only looks like this because he went through the wrong door.
- Sun Wukong 走错了门？那你以前是谁？
Zǒu cuò le mén? Nà nǐ yǐqián shì shéi?
The wrong door? So who were you before?
- Zhu Bajie 天上的天蓬元帅！
Tiānshàng de Tiānpéng Yuánshuài!
Marshal Tianpeng of heaven!
- Sun Wukong 天蓬元帅？老孙可是齐天大圣！看棒！
Tiānpéng Yuánshuài? Lǎo Sūn kěshì Qítiān Dàshèng! Kàn bàng!
Marshal Tianpeng? Well, Old Sun is the Great Sage Equal to Heaven! Take that!
- Narrator 他们在山上打了一夜，谁也打不过谁。
Tāmen zài shān shàng dǎ le yí yè, shéi yě dǎ bu guò shéi.
They fought on the mountain all night, and neither could beat the other.
- Zhu Bajie 不打了，不打了！老猪的肚子饿了！
Bù dǎ le, bù dǎ le! Lǎo Zhū de dùzi è le!
No more fighting! Old Zhu's belly is empty!
- Narrator 妖怪跑进云栈洞，关上了门。
Yāoguài pǎo jìn Yúnzhàn Dòng, guān shàng le mén.
The monster ran into Cloud-Path Cave and shut the door.
- Sun Wukong 又是一个要吃饭的妖怪！好，老孙等你到天亮！
Yòu shì yí gè yào chī fàn de yāoguài! Hǎo, Lǎo Sūn děng nǐ dào tiānliàng!
Another monster who has to stop for a meal! Fine, Old Sun will wait for you till morning!
- Narrator 天亮了。悟空一棒，打开了门。
Tiānliàng le. Wùkōng yí bàng, dǎkāi le mén.
Dawn came. With one blow of his staff, Wukong smashed the door open.
- Zhu Bajie 你这弼马温！你来干什么？谁叫你来的？
Nǐ zhè Bìmǎwēn! Nǐ lái gàn shénme? Shéi jiào nǐ lái de?
You Bimawen! What are you doing here? Who sent you?
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What changed in the story?
- What does 'Cuilan' do when the monster leans in close?
“悟空用手一推，妖怪就掉到了床下边”
- How many transformations does the monster boast that he knows?
“老猪会三十六变”
- Who is the only one the monster is afraid of?
“只怕一个人……齐天大圣！”
- Why does the monster say he looks like a pig?
“老猪是走错了门，才变成这样的。”
- Why does the monster stop fighting and run into his cave?
“不打了，不打了！老猪的肚子饿了！”