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第三十七回
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The Ghost-King Visits Tang Tripitaka by Night · Wukong, by Divine Transformation, Leads the Infant

且聽下回
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且聽下回 To Be Continued

zhèzhījiànleniángniángyǒuhuàshuōqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiězhèzhījiànleniángniángyǒuhuàshuōqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě


逐句解 Line by line

zhèzhījiànleniángniángyǒuhuàshuōqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě zhèzhījiànleniángniángyǒuhuàshuōqiětīngxiàhuífēnjiě

In this going, whether he saw the queen, and what words there were — listen to the next chapter for the telling.

這一去 (zhè yí qù) "in this going"; 且聽下回分解 (qiě tīng xià huí fēn jiě) the storyteller’s formulaic chapter-close, "listen to the next chapter for the unfolding," = fēn.


總評 Commentary

The chapter ends on the storyteller’s standard formula, suspending the action at the very threshold of the prince’s reunion with his mother. The buried truth has been spoken and a test devised, but its proof — the queen’s word — is held back across the chapter break.

The pause is well-placed: everything now turns on a single private question, and the reader is carried forward into the next chapter to learn whether the queen-mother will confirm what the prince cannot yet bring himself to believe.