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辭金起程
Gifts Declined, the Road Resumed
伯欽把三口兒的夢話對三藏陳訴一遍，三藏也喜。早供給了素齋，又具白銀一兩為謝。三藏分文不受。一家兒又懇懇拜央，三藏畢竟分文未受。但道：「是你肯發慈悲送我一程，足感至愛。」伯欽與母妻無奈，急做了些粗麵燒餅乾糧，叫伯欽遠送。三藏歡喜收納。太保領了母命，又喚兩三個家僮，各帶捕獵的器械，同上大路。看不盡那山中野景，嶺上風光。伯钦把三口儿的梦话对三藏陈诉一遍，三藏也喜。早供给了素斋，又具白银一两为谢。三藏分文不受。一家儿又恳恳拜央，三藏毕竟分文未受。但道：「是你肯发慈悲送我一程，足感至爱。」伯钦与母妻无奈，急做了些粗面烧饼干粮，叫伯钦远送。三藏欢喜收纳。太保领了母命，又唤两三个家僮，各带捕猎的器械，同上大路。看不尽那山中野景，岭上风光。
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伯欽把三口兒的夢話對三藏陳訴一遍，三藏也喜。早供給了素齋，又具白銀一兩為謝。三藏分文不受。一家兒又懇懇拜央，三藏畢竟分文未受。但道：「是你肯發慈悲送我一程，足感至愛。」伯欽與母妻無奈，急做了些粗麵燒餅乾糧，叫伯欽遠送。三藏歡喜收納。太保領了母命，又喚兩三個家僮，各帶捕獵的器械，同上大路。看不盡那山中野景，嶺上風光。
伯钦把三口儿的梦话对三藏陈诉一遍，三藏也喜。早供给了素斋，又具白银一两为谢。三藏分文不受。一家儿又恳恳拜央，三藏毕竟分文未受。但道：「是你肯发慈悲送我一程，足感至爱。」伯钦与母妻无奈，急做了些粗面烧饼干粮，叫伯钦远送。三藏欢喜收纳。太保领了母命，又唤两三个家僮，各带捕猎的器械，同上大路。看不尽那山中野景，岭上风光。
Boqin related the whole of the three dreams to Sanzang, and Sanzang too was glad. Early they set out a vegetarian meal, and further offered a tael of silver in thanks; but Sanzang would not take a single cash of it. When the whole family earnestly and repeatedly pressed and entreated him, Sanzang, in the end, took not a single cash, saying only: "That you are willing to show mercy and see me a stage on my way is enough, and I am deeply moved by your kindness." Boqin and his mother and wife, at a loss what to do, hastily made up some coarse-flour griddle-cakes for dry provisions, and bade Boqin see him far on his road. Sanzang gladly accepted these. The Guardian, having received his mother's command, called two or three of the house-servants besides, each with his hunting gear, and they set out together on the high road; and they could not take in all the wild scenes of the mountains and the light on the ridges.
The family tries to pay him and cannot. 一兩 (yī liǎng), one tael of silver, is not a token — it is real money, several weeks' wages for an ordinary household, offered by people who kill tigers for a living. Xuanzang will not take 分文 of it: literally a tenth and a hundredth of a tael, the smallest coin there is, the phrase English handles as "a single penny." The griddle-cakes he does accept, because food for the road is provisions rather than payment — the same line a mendicant order has always drawn, and the same one he drew last night over the tiger meat.
總評 Commentary
The chapter turns toward departure, and Xuanzang's character gets confirmed one more time in the smallest possible compass: a refused gift.
The family presses hard — a tael of silver, offered and offered again by everyone in the house — and he takes none of it. What he does accept is a bundle of coarse flour cakes, because those are food for the road. The distinction is not fussiness; it is the whole logic of a begging order, which may take what it needs today and may not accumulate.
It also rhymes with the meal two nights ago. Offered tiger meat he would rather starve; offered silver he would rather walk. In both cases the man who cannot defend himself against anything at all turns out to be completely immovable about the things that are actually his to decide.
Boqin gathers servants and hunting gear at his mother's order, and they set out. The passage closes on open road and wild mountain country — the farmstead behind them, and something else ahead.