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託夢正宮
A Dream Sent to the Queen
三藏道：「此物何如？」那人道：「全真自從變作我的模樣，只是少變了這件寶貝。他到宮中，說那求雨的全真拐了此珪去了。自此三年，還沒此物。我太子若看見，他睹物思人，此仇必報。」三藏道：「也罷，等我留下，著徒弟與你處置。卻在那裡等麼？」那人道：「我也不敢等。我這去，還央求夜遊神，再使一陣神風，把我送進皇宮內院，託一夢與我那正宮皇后，教他母子們合意，你師徒們同心。」三藏點頭應承道：「你去罷。」三藏道：「此物何如？」那人道：「全真自从变作我的模样，只是少变了这件宝贝。他到宫中，说那求雨的全真拐了此珪去了。自此三年，还没此物。我太子若看见，他睹物思人，此仇必报。」三藏道：「也罢，等我留下，著徒弟与你处置。却在那里等么？」那人道：「我也不敢等。我这去，还央求夜游神，再使一阵神风，把我送进皇宫内院，托一梦与我那正宫皇后，教他母子们合意，你师徒们同心。」三藏点头应承道：「你去罢。」
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三藏道：「此物何如？」
三藏道：「此物何如？」
Tripitaka said, “What of this object?”
何如 (hé rú) "what of it, how so."
那人道：「全真自從變作我的模樣，只是少變了這件寶貝。
那人道：「全真自从变作我的模样，只是少变了这件宝贝。
The man said, “Ever since the Quanzhen adept took on my likeness, this one treasure alone he failed to counterfeit.
那 (nà); 少變 (shǎo biàn) "failed to transform," 少 = shǎo (to lack, omit).
他到宮中，說那求雨的全真拐了此珪去了。
他到宫中，说那求雨的全真拐了此珪去了。
Come into the palace, he gave out that the rain-summoning Quanzhen adept had made off with this tablet.
宮中 (gōng zhōng) "in the palace"; 那 (nà) deictic; 拐了 (guǎi le) "absconded with."
自此三年，還沒此物。
自此三年，还没此物。
For three years since, the thing has still been wanting.
還沒 (hái méi) "still without," 還 = hái.
我太子若看見，他睹物思人，此仇必報。」
我太子若看见，他睹物思人，此仇必报。」
Should my crown prince see it, then, the object recalling the man, this wrong will surely be avenged.”
太子 (tài zǐ), 子 = zǐ; 睹物思人 (dǔ wù sī rén) "seeing the thing, to think of the person"; 此仇必報 (cǐ chóu bì bào) "this feud must be requited."
三藏道：「也罷，等我留下，著徒弟與你處置。
三藏道：「也罢，等我留下，著徒弟与你处置。
Tripitaka said, “Very well; let me keep it, and set my disciple to deal with the matter for you.
著徒弟 (zhuó tú dì) "set the disciple to," causative 著 = zhuó; 處置 (chǔ zhì) "to deal with, dispose of," 處 = chǔ (the verbal reading, not chù).
卻在那裡等麼？」
却在那里等么？」
But where shall I await him?”
那裡 (nǎ lǐ) "where," interrogative 那 = nǎ.
那人道：「我也不敢等。
那人道：「我也不敢等。
The man said, “I dare not wait, either.
那 (nà); 不敢 (bù gǎn) "dare not."
我這去，還央求夜遊神，再使一陣神風，把我送進皇宮內院，託一夢與我那正宮皇后，教他母子們合意，你師徒們同心。」
我这去，还央求夜游神，再使一阵神风，把我送进皇宫内院，托一梦与我那正宫皇后，教他母子们合意，你师徒们同心。」
Going now, I shall further entreat the Night-Roaming Spirit to raise once more a gust of divine wind and send me into the inner courts of the palace, there to lodge a dream with my own principal queen — that mother and son may be brought to one mind, and you, master and disciples, to one heart.”
還 (hái) "further"; 那正宮 (nà zhèng gōng) deictic nà; 教 (jiào) "cause, make" (causative); 母子們 (mǔ zǐ men), 子 = zǐ.
三藏點頭應承道：「你去罷。」
三藏点头应承道：「你去罢。」
Tripitaka nodded in assent and said, “Go, then.”
應承 (yìng chéng) "to assent, agree," 應 = yìng (respond/agree — contrast 想應 yīng).
總評 Commentary
The tablet’s logic is completed: it is the one thing the impostor could not reproduce, and he covered its absence with a story — that the rain-adept had stolen it — so that its reappearance in the prince’s hands becomes proof against the seeming father. “Seeing the thing, to think of the person” is the exact mechanism of recognition the plot requires.
The ghost then departs to plant a matching dream in the queen, coordinating mother, son, and pilgrims into a single design — the murdered king orchestrating his own vindication from beyond the grave. Tripitaka’s assent closes the long dream-audience and hands the action forward to Wukong, whose waking plan will open the chapter’s next movement.