太保告回 Boqin Takes His Leave
那伯欽見孫行者一心收拾要行，卻轉身對三藏唱個喏道：「長老，你幸此間收得個好徒，甚喜，甚喜。此人果然去得。我卻告回。」三藏躬身作禮相謝道：「多有拖步，感激不勝。回府多多致意令堂老夫人、令荊夫人，貧僧在府多擾，容回時踵謝。」伯欽回禮，遂此兩下分別。那伯钦见孙行者一心收拾要行，却转身对三藏唱个喏道：「长老，你幸此间收得个好徒，甚喜，甚喜。此人果然去得。我却告回。」三藏躬身作礼相谢道：「多有拖步，感激不胜。回府多多致意令堂老夫人、令荆夫人，贫僧在府多扰，容回时踵谢。」伯钦回礼，遂此两下分别。
逐句解 Line by line
Seeing that Pilgrim Sun was set with one mind on setting out, Boqin turned and made a salute to Sanzang, saying,
His job is finished: he has brought the monk to the frontier and seen him gain a protector. 行者 reads 行 as xíng.
"Elder, you are fortunate to have gained so good a disciple here — I am glad, most glad.
甚喜，甚喜 — most glad, most glad. This is 甚 in its emphasising sense, 'very', read shèn, and it is worth setting beside the asking-word 甚麼 (shén) a few passages back. Same character, two jobs, two readings.
This man will indeed do to go with you. And now I take my leave."
去得, 'will do to go' with 得 read de, is the hunter's verdict on the new disciple: he will serve. Then he takes his formal leave.
Sanzang bowed and made his thanks: "I have put you to much trouble, and I am more grateful than I can say.
相謝, to thank, takes 相 in its mutual sense and reads it xiāng — not the xiàng of 'appearance' that the old man's 'fearsome looks' will use later.
When you return to your house, convey my many respects to your honoured mother and to your worthy wife; I have been much bother to your household, and when I pass this way again I shall come to give my thanks in person."
A small masterclass in Tang manners. Respects to the household's senior woman (令堂) and to the wife (令荊), an apology for the trouble caused, and a promise to come back and thank them properly on the return leg — a return leg that is fourteen years and eighty-six chapters away.
Boqin returned the courtesy, and with that the two parted.
The bow is returned, and that is the last of Liu Boqin. 分別, 'to part', reads 分 as fēn.
A brief, gracious parting closes the hunter's part in the story. Liu Boqin, having escorted Sanzang to the very edge of Tang territory and seen him safely supplied with a disciple, takes his leave visibly pleased with the monk's luck.
The whole exchange is Tang decorum: Boqin salutes and commends the new disciple, Sanzang bows low, thanks him at length and sends careful respects to his mother and his wife before promising to repay their hospitality on the way home. The formality marks the closing of one companionship at the moment the journey's real partnership — monk and monkey — is opening.
With Boqin gone the frame narrows to two figures on a road going west, and the chapter turns immediately to the first test of the new bond: a tiger on the path.