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安排禪堂
The Meditation Hall Made Ready
師徒們都吃罷了晚齋，眾僧收拾了家火。三藏稱謝道：「老院主，打攪寶山了。」僧官道：「不敢，不敢。怠慢，怠慢。」三藏道：「我師徒卻在這裡安歇？」僧官道：「老爺不要忙，小和尚自有區處。」叫：「道人，那壁廂有幾個人聽使令的？」道人說：「師父，有。」僧官吩咐道：「你們著兩個去安排草料，與唐老爺喂馬。著幾個去前面把那三間禪堂，打掃乾淨鋪設床帳，快請老爺安歇。」师徒们都吃罢了晚斋，众僧收拾了家火。三藏称谢道：「老院主，打搅宝山了。」僧官道：「不敢，不敢。怠慢，怠慢。」三藏道：「我师徒却在这里安歇？」僧官道：「老爷不要忙，小和尚自有区处。」叫：「道人，那壁厢有几个人听使令的？」道人说：「师父，有。」僧官吩咐道：「你们著两个去安排草料，与唐老爷喂马。著几个去前面把那三间禅堂，打扫干净铺设床帐，快请老爷安歇。」
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師徒們都吃罷了晚齋，眾僧收拾了家火。
师徒们都吃罢了晚斋，众僧收拾了家火。
When master and disciples had finished the evening meal, the monks cleared away the cooking things.
都 read dōu; 吃罷了 "to have finished eating," 罷 read bà; 家火 "cooking utensils, gear."
三藏稱謝道：「老院主，打攪寶山了。」
三藏称谢道：「老院主，打搅宝山了。」
Tripitaka gave thanks: “Venerable prior, I've troubled your precious mountain.”
打攪 "to trouble, impose upon," 攪 read jiǎo; 寶山 "precious mountain," a courteous term for the temple; 藏 read zàng.
僧官道：「不敢，不敢。
僧官道：「不敢，不敢。
The abbot said: “Not at all, not at all.”
不敢 a formula of polite demurral.
怠慢，怠慢。」
怠慢，怠慢。」
“We've been remiss, remiss.”
怠慢 "to neglect, treat slightingly" — the host's conventional self-deprecation.
三藏道：「我師徒卻在這裡安歇？」
三藏道：「我师徒却在这里安歇？」
Tripitaka said: “And are we, master and disciples, to rest here?”
安歇 "to rest, lodge for the night"; 藏 read zàng.
僧官道：「老爺不要忙，小和尚自有區處。」
僧官道：「老爷不要忙，小和尚自有区处。」
The abbot said: “Don't trouble yourself, my lord; this humble monk has his own arrangements.”
區處 (qū chǔ) "to make arrangements, dispose matters," 處 read chǔ; 和尚 read hé shàng.
叫：「道人，那壁廂有幾個人聽使令的？」
叫：「道人，那壁厢有几个人听使令的？」
He called: “Servitor — over on that side, are there some men to take orders?”
那壁廂 "over on that side, yonder"; 聽使令 "to await commands"; 那 read nà.
道人說：「師父，有。」
道人说：「师父，有。」
The servitor said: “Master, there are.”
The servitor, restored to duty, answers.
僧官吩咐道：「你們著兩個去安排草料，與唐老爺喂馬。
僧官吩咐道：「你们著两个去安排草料，与唐老爷喂马。
The abbot ordered: “Send two of you to see to fodder and feed the Venerable Tang's horse.”
著 "to send, dispatch," read zhuó (the causative/dispatch 著 — locked corpus-wide reading); 草料 "hay and feed"; 喂馬 "to feed the horse."
著幾個去前面把那三間禪堂，打掃乾淨鋪設床帳，快請老爺安歇。」
著几个去前面把那三间禅堂，打扫干净铺设床帐，快请老爷安歇。」
“Send several to the three-bay meditation hall in front, sweep it clean, spread the bedding, and be quick to invite the lord to his rest.”
著 read zhuó (the causative/dispatch 著 — locked corpus-wide reading); 那三間 "those three bays," 那 read nà; 禪堂 "the meditation hall"; 乾淨 "clean," 乾 read gān; 鋪設床帳 "to lay out the bed-curtains and bedding," 鋪 read pū.
總評 Commentary
With the meal done, the scene settles into the courtesies of a host and an honoured guest — Tripitaka thanking the "precious mountain" for its trouble, the abbot demurring with the conventional formulae of a remiss host. It is worth noting how thoroughly the relationship has been rewritten: the man who would not grant a night's floor-space now busies himself arranging fodder, a swept meditation hall, and made-up beds.
The passage restores the servitor to ordinary duty and shows the temple's machinery working as it should — men dispatched to the horse, others to prepare the guest-quarters. After the violence of the confrontation, the chapter modulates back toward calm and order, setting the stage for the quiet night scene to come, when Tripitaka steps out beneath the moon and the tale turns from farce to the contemplation of its deeper theme.