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且聽下回 To Be Continued
這一去，不知見了娘娘，有何話說且聽下回分解。这一去，不知见了娘娘，有何话说且听下回分解。
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這一去，不知見了娘娘，有何話說且聽下回分解。
这一去，不知见了娘娘，有何话说且听下回分解。
In this going, whether he saw the queen, and what words there were — listen to the next chapter for the telling.
The storyteller's sign-off, unchanged across the whole novel: 且聽下回分解 — listen to the next instalment for the unravelling. It is a professional formula, a reminder that these chapters began as performances told over successive sittings, and the break is placed with a performer's instinct: not after the revelation, but before the one question that will confirm it. 這一去 is "in this going"; 分 is fēn; 娘娘 is the queen, its second syllable light.
The chapter closes on the standard formula, suspending everything at the threshold of the prince's reunion with his mother. The buried truth has been spoken aloud and a test has been devised, but the proof — the queen's own answer — is held back across the break.
The placing is expert. Everything now rests on one private question put by a son to his mother, and the reader is carried into the next chapter to find out whether she will confirm what the boy still cannot bring himself to believe.