With a shout he sent Fine-and-Keen and Clever-Bug packing. The two said: “What luck, what luck! Not beaten though we deserved beating, not cursed though we deserved cursing — and let off after all.” The second fiend said: “Call the regular attendants, Mountain-Straddling Tiger and Sea-Reclining Dragon.”

一聲喝起 (yì shēng hè qǐ), "sent off with a shout" — 喝 read hè, the bark of command. 那常隨的伴當 (nà cháng suí de bàn dāng), "those regular attendants" — deictic 那; 伴當 (bàn dāng), a retainer.

The two knelt down, and the second fiend charged them: “You must take care.” Both answered: “We'll take care.” “And be thorough.” Both answered: “We'll be thorough.” He asked again: “Do you know the way to Old Grandma's home?” Again both answered: “We know it.”

俱應道 (jù yìng dào), "both answered" — 應 read yìng, thrice repeated. 仔細 (zǐ xì), "careful, thorough" — 仔 read zǐ. 認得 (rèn de), "know, recognize" — the vernacular de of familiarity.

“Since you know it, be off at once. Go to Old Grandma's, make many bows, say she is invited to eat the Tang Monk's flesh, and have her bring the gold-glinting cord — we want it to catch Sun the Pilgrim.”

老奶奶處 (lǎo nǎi nai chù), "Old Grandma's place" — 處 read chù, place. 就著帶 (jiù zhe dài), "and while about it bring" — 就著 is the colloquial "taking the occasion to, at the same time," with 著 the neutral aspect particle zhe; it parallels the plain 就帶 of the imp's later restatement of this same order.