The Pilgrim said, "Old Chen, I have troubled your house on every side; I have not bathed these five hundred years and more.

'Old Chen' — he has known the man about an hour. The request is blunt and entirely self-serving, and he softens it with a promise to be grateful later. Five hundred years unwashed is a comic overstatement of a real predicament. 行者 reads 行 as xíng.

Would you go and heat some water, so my master and I may wash — and I will thank you all the more when we leave."

Note the tactful expansion: hot water for my master and me. Having decided to impose, he brings Sanzang along as cover. 臨行, 'when about to set out', reads 行 as xíng.

The old fellow at once had water heated and a basin brought, and set a lamp burning. Master and disciple bathed, and sat down before the lamp.

Water heated, basin fetched, lamp lit, no complaint recorded. The old man's generosity keeps quietly outrunning what is asked of him. 那 reads nà.

The Pilgrim said, "Old Chen, there is one more thing I must trouble you for: lend me a needle and thread to use."

One more thing, says the guest who has already had a bath. 還有一事, 'there is yet one more thing', reads 還 as hái.

The old fellow said, "Yes, yes, yes," and bade his wife fetch needle and thread, which she handed to the Pilgrim.

Yes, yes, yes — and the wife is sent for the sewing box. 即教媽媽 reads 教 as jiào, 'to have someone do something'.

The Pilgrim, quick-eyed as ever, had seen while his master bathed a short white cloth tunic set aside unworn; he pulled it over and threw it about himself.

又有眼色 is 'quick-eyed', and it is a compliment in the text and a theft in the story: while his master was bathing, Wukong spotted a short white tunic set aside and unworn, and simply put it on.

Then he took off the tiger-skin, joined it together, worked it into a horse-face pleat, bound it about his waist, fastened it with the creeper-cord, and came before his master, saying:

Now the real tailoring. He folds the hide into a 馬面樣的摺子, a pleated 'horse-face' apron — a real garment shape, a skirt with a flat panel front and back and pleats at the sides — belts it on with his creeper, and presents himself for inspection. 將 marks what the verb acts on, read jiāng; 摺子 takes the light 子 (zi).

"How does old Sun's turnout today compare with yesterday's?"

And then he fishes for a compliment. How do I look today compared with yesterday?

Sanzang said, "Good, good, good! Dressed like this, you look at last like a proper pilgrim."

He gets one. 'Now you look like a proper 行者' — which, since 行者 is the name Sanzang gave him a few hours ago, means the outfit has finally caught up with the title. 三藏 reads 藏 as zàng.

Sanzang said, "Disciple, if you do not mind its being worn and old, that tunic is yours — put it on and keep it."

And the monk makes a present of the tunic the monkey has already taken, which is a graceful way of not noticing. 那件直裰 reads 那 as nà.

Wukong made a salute and said, "I accept it, I accept it."

承賜, 'I receive your gift', twice over. For once he says thank you properly.

He then went to find some fodder and fed the horse. By this time all their tasks were done, and master and disciple, with the old fellow, each went to rest.

One last chore — fodder for the horse — and the house goes to bed. 那老兒 reads 那 as nà.