帕布莉卡第二折 拷艳
（夫人引欢郎上云）这几日见莺莺语言恍惚，神思加倍，腰肢体态别又不同，心中甚是委决不下。
（欢云）前日晚夕，夫人睡了，我见小姐和红娘去花园里烧香，半夜等不得回来。
（夫人云）你去唤红娘来！
（欢唤红娘科）
（红云）哥儿，唤我怎么？
（欢云）夫人知道你和小姐花园里去，如今要问你哩！
（红惊云）呀，小姐，你连累我也！哥儿，你先去，我便来也。金塘水满鸳鸯睡，绣户风开鹦鹉知。
〔越调·斗鹌鹑〕（红娘唱）
止若是夜去明来，
倒有个天长地久。
不争你握雨携云，
常使我提心在口。
你止合带月披星，
谁许你停眠整宿。
夫人他心数多，
情性亻刍[1]；
还要巧语花言，
将没作有。
〔紫花儿序〕
猜他穷酸做了新婿，
猜你小姐做了娇妻，
猜我红娘做的牵头。
况你这春山低翠，
秋水凝眸，都休。
只把你裙带儿拴，
纽门儿扣，
比旧时肥瘦；
出落得精神，
别样的风流。
我算将来，我到夫人那里，夫人必问道：“兀那小贱人！
〔金蕉叶〕
我着你但去处行监坐守[2]，
谁教你迤逗他胡行乱走？”
这般问，
如何诉休[3]？
我便只道：“夫人在上，红娘自幼不敢欺心。”
便与他个知情的犯由。
只是我图着什么来？
〔调笑令〕
他并头效绸缪，
倒凤颠鸾百事有。
我独在窗儿外，
几曾敢轻咳嗽？
立苍苔直把绣鞋儿冰透。
如今嫩皮肤去受粗棍儿抽，
我这通殷勤的着甚来由？
咳，小姐，我过去呵。说得过，你休欢喜；说不过，你休烦恼。你只在这里打听波。
（红娘见夫人科）
（夫人云）小贱人，怎么不跪下？你知罪么？
（红云）红娘不知罪。
（夫人云）你还自口强哩。若实说呵，饶你；若不实说呵，我只打死你个小贱人！（说科）谁着你和小姐半夜花园里去？
（红云）不曾去，谁见来？
（夫人云）欢郎见来，尚兀自推哩。
（打科）
（红云）夫人，不要闪了贵手，且请息怒，听红娘说。
〔鬼三台〕
夜坐时停了针绣，
和小姐闲穷究[4]，
说哥哥病久。
咱两个背着夫人，
向书房问候。
（夫人云）问候呵，他说什么?
他说“夫人近来恩做仇，
教小生半途喜变忧”。
他说“红娘你且先行”，
他说“小姐权时落后”。
（夫人云）哎哟，小贱人！他是个女孩儿家，著他落后怎么？
〔秃厮儿〕
定然是神针法灸，
难道是燕侣莺俦？
他两个经今月馀，
只是一处宿。
何须你一一搜缘由？
〔圣药王〕
他们不识忧，
不识愁，
一双心意两相投。
夫人你得好休，
便好休，
其间何必苦追求！
（夫人云）这事，都是你个小贱人！
（红云）非干张生、小姐、红娘之事，乃夫人之过也。
（夫人云）这小贱人倒拖下我来，怎么是我之过？
（红云）信者，人之根本。人而无信，大不可也。当日军围普救，夫人许退得军者，以女妻之。张生非慕小姐颜色，何故无干建策？夫人兵退身安，悔却前言，岂不为失信乎？既不允其亲事，便当酬以金帛，令其舍此远去。却不合留于书院，相近咫尺，使怨女旷夫[5]各相窥伺，因而有此一端。夫人若不遮盖此事，一来辱没相国家谱；二来张生施恩于人，反受其辱；三来告到官司，夫人先有治家不严之罪。依红娘愚见，莫若恕其小过，完其大事，实为长便。
常言女大不中留。
〔麻郎儿〕
又是一个文章魁首，
一个仕女班头；
一个通彻三教九流，
一个晓尽描鸾刺绣。
〔后〕
世有、
便休、
罢手，
大恩人怎做敌头？
启白马将军故友，
斩飞虎幺么草寇。
〔络丝娘〕
不争和张解元参辰卯酉，
便是与崔相国出乖弄丑[6]，
到底干连著自己皮肉。
夫人你休究。
（夫人云）这小贱人倒也说得是。我不合养了这个不肖之女。经官呵，其实辱没家门。罢罢！俺家无犯法之男，再婚之女，便与了这禽兽罢。红娘，先与我唤那贱人过来！
（红娘请云）小姐，那棍子儿只是滴溜溜在我身上转，吃我直说过了。如今夫人请你过去。
（莺莺云）羞人答答的，怎么见我母亲？
（红云）哎哟，小姐，你又来，娘跟前有什么羞？羞时休做！
〔小桃红〕
你个月明才上柳梢头，
却早人约黄昏后。
羞得我脑背后，
将牙儿衬着衫儿袖。
怎凝眸，
只见你鞋底尖儿瘦。
一个恣情的不休，
一个哑声儿厮耨[7]。
那时不曾害半星儿羞！
（莺莺见夫人科）
（夫人云）我的孩儿……
（夫人哭科）（莺莺哭科）（红娘哭科）
（夫人云）我的孩儿，你今日被人欺负，做下这等之事。都是我的业障[8]，待怨谁来？我待经官呵，辱没了你父亲。这等事，不是俺相国人家做出来的！
（莺莺大哭科）
（夫人云）红娘，你扶住小姐，罢罢！都是俺养女儿不长进。你去书房里，唤那禽兽来！
（红娘唤张生科）
（张生云）谁唤小生？
（红云）你的事发了也！夫人唤你哩。
（张生云）红娘姐，没奈何你与我遮盖些。不知谁在夫人行说来？小生惶恐，怎好过去？
（红云）你休佯小心，老着脸儿，快些过去。
〔后〕
既然泄漏怎干休？
是我先投首[9]。
他如今赔酒赔茶倒就，
你反担忧！
何须定约通媒媾？
我担着个部署不周。
你元来“苗而不秀”。
呸！一个银样镴枪头。
（张生见夫人科）
（夫人云）好秀才，岂不闻“非先王之德行不敢行”。我便待送你到官府去，只辱没了我家门。我没奈何，把莺莺便配与你为妻。只是俺家三辈不招白衣[10]女婿，你明日便上朝取应去，俺与你养着媳妇儿。得官呵，来见我；剥落呵，休来见我。
（张生无语，跪拜科）
（红云）谢天谢地！谢我夫人。
〔东原乐〕
相思事，
一笔勾，
早则展放从前眉儿皱，
密爱幽欢恰动头。
谁能彀！
兀的般可喜娘庞儿也要人消受。
（夫人云）红娘，你吩咐收拾行装，安排酒肴果盒，明日送张生到十里长亭[11]，饯行去者。寄语西河堤畔柳，安排青眼送行人。
（夫人引莺莺下）
（红云）张生，你还是喜也，还是闷也？
〔收尾〕
直要到归来时，
画堂箫鼓鸣春昼，
方是一对儿鸾交凤友。
如今还不受你说媒红，
吃你谢亲酒。
注释：
[1]㑇（zhòu）：脾气固执、刚愎自用。
[2]行监坐守：一举一动都要看守监视。
[3]如何诉休：如何诉说啊。
[4]穷究：原义追根究底、刨根问底，此处意为聊天、说闲话儿。
[5]怨女旷夫：成年而未嫁女子称“怨女”；成年而未娶的男子为“旷夫”。
[6]出乖弄丑：做出错事、丑事而丢人现眼。
[7]厮耨（nòu）：戏弄纠缠。
[8]业障：佛教语称行恶业（坏事）则障阻正道。
[9]投首：自首。
[10]白衣：古时未为官者着白衣，即以白衣喻没有功名利禄的人。
[11]十里长亭：古代设于道路旁供行人歇宿、休息的公用屋舍。
Scene 2 Rose in The Dock
Madame Cui enters with her adopted son,Happy Boy,and says:
Yingying seems absent-minded and preoccupied these days,and her figure appears different.What is the matter with her?
Happy Boy says:
The other night when you were asleep,I saw my sister and Rose go to burn incense in the garden and not come back before midnight.
Madame Cui says:
Go and call Rose to come here.
(Happy Boy calls Rose.)
Rose enters and says:
What are you calling me for,my Young Master?
Happy Boy says:
My mother has learned that you and my sister have been to the garden and she wants to question you.
Rose says:
Alas!My Young Mistress,you have compromised me!Go ahead,my Young Master,and I will come immediately.
A pair of lovebirds sleep on water green;
A parrot sees them through wind-opened screen.
She sings to the tune of FIGHT OF QUAILS:
If you had gone by night
And come back with daylight,
Your joys might be secure
As long as sky and earth endure.
But you would bring fresh shower
Each night for the thirsting flower,
And often make me feel in the wrong,
Gnawed by an anxiety strong.
You should have gone and come back by starlight.
Who’d have allowed you to sleep there all night?
Do you not know our Mistress’ingenious mind
Rather unkind?
She could see honeyed words through.
Even when there’s nothing wrong,she would make much ado.
Tune: VIOLET FLOWER
She would suspect the scholar has become bridegroom
And you,my Young Mistress,his wife in golden room,
And I have pulled the string.
Seeing your eyebrows fresh as spring
And eyes as autumn water bright,
She’d guess all right.
If she just tries
To button up your robe and measure your girdle green
And compare it with the size
Of your former figure she has seen,
She’s sure to find
You’re lovely and coquette of a different kind.
She says:
I feel almost sure when I appear before my Mistress,she will say:“O you little wretch!”
She sings to the tune of GOLDEN BANANA LEAVES:
I ordered you to follow her wherever
She went and keep an eye on her and never
Lose sight of her.What made you lead her stray
From the right way?”
If I am thus addressed.
O what in my defence have I to say?
She says:
Then I will simply tell her,“I have never dared to deceive you since my very childhood,my respectful Mistress.”
She continues to sing:
Then of the whole affair I will make a clean breast.
She says:
What had I to gain from their liaison?
She sings to the tune of SONG OF FLIRTATION:
Their heads were close together like two flowers;
A pair of happy phoenixes loved their fill.
I stood alone outside the window of the bower,
Ne’er daring cough e’en slightly,till
In early morning hours
My broidered shoes on mossy ground felt icy chill.
Now my delicate skin will be beaten black and blue.
What wrong has a go-between done in a rendezvous?
She says:
Well,I am off,my Young Mistress.If I can explain matters to the satisfaction of my old Mistress,do not be overjoyed.If not,do not be overan noyed.Just stay there and wait for the news.
(Rose appears before Madame Cui.)
Madame Cui says:
You little wretch!Why don’t you kneel down?Won’t you confess your guilt?
Rose says:
Your maid knows of no guilt to confess.
Madame Cui says:
How dare you deny it!If you tell the truth,I will pardon you;if not,I will beat you to death,you little wretch!Who allowed you to go with your Young Mistress to the garden at midnight?
Rose says:
I did not go there.Who did see me?
Madame Cui says:
Happy Boy saw you.How dare you still deny it!
(She beats Rose.)
Rose says:
Please withdraw your noble hand,my Mistress.Do not be angry and listen to what I have to say.
She sings to the tune of THREE TERRACES:
When we had finished our sewing at night,
We talked about her elder brother’s plight.
We thought it was her due
To inquire after his health without telling you.
Madame Cui says:
To inquire?What did he say?
Rose continues to sing:
“Your Mistress returned evil for good”,he said,
“And turned to grief my pleasure vain.”
He told me,“Rose,to go ahead”,
And said“my Young Mistress should alone remain.”
Madame Cui says:
Ah!You wretch!How could an unmarried maiden remain there alone!
Rose sings to the tune of A BALD HEAD:
I thought she’d cure him with needle divine.
Who knew like mating swallows they’d have done?
They’ve slept together over a month,rain or shine.
Why need you go into details one by one?
Tune: KING OF MEDICINE
They know neither grief nor sorrow;
They know today but not tomorrow.
They love each other soul and heart;
They cannot bear to be torn apart.
My Mistress,overlook the matter if you can.
This is not an affair for you to probe or scan.
Madame Cui says:
It is you,little wretch,who are to blame.
Rose says:
It is neither Master Zhang nor Miss Yingying nor Rose who is to blame.The fault is yours,Madame.
Madame Cui says:
You little wretch!How dare you shift the blame to me!How can it be my fault?
Rose says:
It is fundamental for a man to keep faith.One who does not is not worthy of the name of a man.When the Salvation Monastery was surrounded by the bandits,you promised to give your daughter as wife to anyone who could make the bandits withdraw.If Master Zhang had not been an admirer of the beauty of my Young Mistress,would he,an outsider,have proposed a plan to such an effect?When the bandits retreated and you were left in peace,you repented and went back on your words.Was not this a breach of faith?Unwilling to approve the match,you should have rewarded him with money and made him go far,far away.It was wrong of you to keep him in the library near the Young Lady’s abode,so that the lonely maiden and bachelor had a chance to meet each other.If you did not cover up this scandal,in the first place,the family honor of the late Prime Minister would be compromised.In the second place,you would do wrong to Master Zhang who had done us good.In the third place,if you appealed to the court,you would be the first to be blamed for having not taken good care of the family.In my humble opinion,it would be far better to forgive the wrong he had done and not to return evil for good,but to fulfil the promise you have made to unite them as man and wife.
She continues to sing:
The proverb says:Don’t keep in the household
A maiden who is growing old!
Tune: A POCKMARKED FACE
One of them is a leading light;
The other is a lady fair and bright.
One knows the secular and divine;
The other drawing and embroidery fine.
Tune: A SECOND SONG
When things appear
Good far and near,
Don’t interfere!
Why make an enemy of a good friend
Who sent for General on White Horse to defend
The family and make the trouble put an end?
Tune: SPINNER
Why turn a benefactor into an enemy
And bring disgrace to your own family?
She’s after all your flesh and blood,
Over which you should brood.
Madame Cui says:
What the little wretch has said is reasonable.It is my misfortune to have brought up this unworthy daughter.If the case were brought to the court,it would bring disgrace to our family.Well,well!Our family had no guilty man nor remarried woman.What can I do now but give my daughter to the beast!Rose,go and tell Yingying to come here!
Rose,calling Yingying,says:
My Young Mistress!The rod was brandished over me like a threatening shower.Fortunately I was spared by speaking straight.Now my Mistress asks you to go over.
Yingying says:
How dare I,so overwhelmed with shame,see my mother face to face?
Rose says:
Ah,my Young Mistress,you are at it again.You need not feel ashamed before your own mother.If you do,how could you have dared to do what you did?
She sings to the tune of RED PEACH BLOSSOM:
You had your tryst with Master Zhang as soon
As over the top of willows rose the moon.
Ashamed,I hid my face amid willow leaves
And bit with my teeth into my sleeves.
When I turned my eyes on you,
I saw before the bed but your delicate shoes.
In bed he was loving his fill;
Silent,you let him have his will.
Why did you not feel shame
With your cheeks all in flame?
(Yingying meets her mother.)
Madame Cui says:
My dear child!
(Madame Cui weeps.)(Yingying weeps.)(Ose weeps.)
Madame Cui says:
My dear child,you have been wronged,but this was my fault.How could I blame anyone else?If I appealed to the court,it would bring disgrace to your late father.How could a prime minister’s daughter have done such a thing!
(Yingying weeps bitterly.)
Madame Cui says:
Rose,help your Young Mistress.Well,well,what can I do with an unworthy daughter!Go to the library,Rose,and tell that beast to come.
(Rose calls Master Zhang.)
Master Zhang says:
Who is calling me?
Rose says:
Your affair has been discovered.My Mistress is calling for you.
Master Zhang says:
How can I get out of the difficulty?Miss Rose,will you please screen me a little?I wonder who would have told Madame this.I am so fearful that I dare not go to see her.
Rose says:
Don’t appear fearful but put on a bold air and go to see her at once.
She sings to the tune of A SECOND STANZA:
What leaked out could not be screened with success,
So at once I had to confess.
My Mistress now would entertain you with wine and tea.
Why should you anxious be?
Betrothal may not be arranged by a go-between.
Am I a chaperon obscene?
You look like a silver spear-head,
But in fact it is made of lead.
(Master Zhang meets Madame Cui.)
Madame Cui says:
Fine scholar as you are,have you not heard that deeds unworthy of the ancient sages should not be done?If I should hand you over to the court,that would bring disgrace to my family.There is left only for me to marry my daughter to you.But for three generations past our family has never had a son-in-law who had no official rank.So you must go to the capital to attend the civil service examinations.I will take care of your future wife.If you pass the examinations with honor,come back and marry my daughter.If not,do not come to see us!
(Master Zhang remains silent,kneels and makes his bows.)
Rose says:
Thank Heaven and Earth,and thanks to my Mistress!
She sings to the tune of JOY OF EASTERN PLAIN:
Your love affair
Has been forgiven.
Your eyebrows knit with care
May now be riven.
Your lovesickness
Ends in your happiness.
O who would not embrace
Such a delightful maiden with a lovely face!
Madame Cui says:
Rose,give orders for the luggage to be packed and wine and viands to be prepared so that we may see Master Zhang off at the Pavilion tomorrow and give him a fare-well feast.
Yingying sings:
Send word to riverside green willow trees
To see the rider off in vernal breeze!
(Exit Madame Cui with Yingying.)
Rose says:
Master Zhang,do you feel happy or sad?
She sings to the tune of EPILOGUE:
We must just wait till you come back again,
When flutes and drums will enliven the scene,
And like two lovebirds you are joined in twain,
Then I’ll receive your reward for a go-between
And drink a cup of wine
For your union divine.
(Exeunt.)
