銀殿賜宴 The Demon's Feast
那國王卻傳旨，教光祿寺大排筵宴，謝駙馬救拔之恩；不然，險被那和尚害了。當晚眾臣朝散，那妖魔進了銀安殿。又選十八個宮娥綵女，吹彈歌舞，勸妖魔飲酒作樂。那国王却传旨，教光禄寺大排筵宴，谢驸马救拔之恩；不然，险被那和尚害了。当晚众臣朝散，那妖魔进了银安殿。又选十八个宫娥彩女，吹弹歌舞，劝妖魔饮酒作乐。
逐句解 Line by line
The king then issued a decree, having the Court of Imperial Entertainments spread a great banquet to thank the Consort for the grace of his rescue — for otherwise, he thought, that monk had all but done him harm.
光祿寺 is the Court of Imperial Entertainments, the office charged with state banquets; 救拔 is "to rescue, to pull [one] from danger." Both instances of 那 are deictic nà; 教 ("having, ordering") is jiào.
That evening, when the ministers had withdrawn from court, the demon entered the Silver-Peace Hall.
朝散 ("court disperses") takes 朝 as cháo and 散 as sàn; 銀安殿 is the "Silver-Peace Hall." 那 is deictic nà.
Eighteen palace maids and serving-girls were chosen besides — to pipe and strum, to sing and dance, and press wine on the demon in his revels.
宮娥綵女 are palace maids and adorned serving-girls; 作樂 ("to make merry") takes 樂 as lè. The whole apparatus of the state now waits upon the monster.
The bitterest irony of the chapter falls here: the machinery of the kingdom — its decree, its banqueting-office, its palace hall, its eighteen maids — is turned to celebrate the demon and thank him for "saving" the king from the very pilgrim he has caged. The usurpation is complete; the monster is honored guest where the saint is imprisoned beast.
The gathering of eighteen maids to entertain him sets the scene, with grim deliberateness, for the horror to come: the reader is shown the demon at ease, surrounded by helpless attendants, precisely so that his reversion may be the more shocking.