詩證還鄉 A Poem Attests; The Return to Junzhou
有詩為證：有诗为证：
他兩個辭了君王，徑來均州城裡，見舊家業、兒女俱好，兩口兒宣揚善果不題。他两个辞了君王，径来均州城里，见旧家业、儿女俱好，两口儿宣扬善果不题。
逐句解 Line by line
There is a poem in witness:
The storyteller's citation formula 有詩為證 ('there is a poem as proof') introduces a four-line summary verse. 為 in 為證 is wèi ('as, for the sake of').
That men are born and men must die is a bond ordained before; and short or long, each life is measured to its allotted years.
The couplet states the episode's karmic premise: birth and death follow from 前緣 ('prior affinity, predestined bond'), and each lifespan is fixed. Both graphs in 短短長長 ('the short and the long [of lives]') read 長 as cháng ('long'), not zhǎng.
Liu Quan bore the melons down and returned to the world of light; and borrowing a body to come back, Li Cuilian lived once more.
The closing couplet names the two marvels of the episode — Liu Quan's errand rewarded with restoration, and Cuilian's transmigration into Yuying's body. 還 in 還魂 is huán.
The two took leave of their sovereign and went straight to the city of Junzhou, where they found their old estate and their children all in good order; and the couple made known the good fruits of their karma — of which we say no more.
兒女 ('sons and daughters') reads 兒 as the full noun ér, whereas 兩口兒 ('the two of them, the couple') carries the diminutive suffix er. 善果 ('good fruit') is the karmic reward of their almsgiving and fidelity; 辭了 takes the aspectual le.
The summary quatrain closes the Liu Quan episode with a formal statement of its moral arithmetic. Its opening couplet universalizes the tale into doctrine — birth, death, and the length of a life are all matters of predestined affinity and fixed allotment — while its second couplet reduces the whole affair to two named wonders: the melon-bearer's reward and the borrowed-body return. The prose coda then folds the thread shut in the storyteller's manner, returning the couple to Junzhou and their intact household. With this the chapter has fully discharged the business carried over from Chapter 11, and is free to turn to the second strand of Taizong's debt to the underworld: the gold owed to the poor almsgiver Xiang Liang, and the great rite of deliverance that will follow.