命出俟候 Sent Back Out
行者見了，忍不住厲聲高叫道：「菩薩，弟子孫悟空志心朝禮。」菩薩教：「外面俟候。」行者叩頭道：「菩薩，我師父有難，特來拜問通天河妖怪根源。」菩薩道：「你且出去，待我出來。」行者见了，忍不住厉声高叫道：「菩萨，弟子孙悟空志心朝礼。」菩萨教：「外面俟候。」行者叩头道：「菩萨，我师父有难，特来拜问通天河妖怪根源。」菩萨道：「你且出去，待我出来。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim, seeing this, could not hold back but cried out in a sharp voice: "Bodhisattva, your disciple Sun Wukong pays reverence with a whole heart."
見了 takes 了 as the tag le; 弟子 takes 子 as zǐ, the full-toned word for a person; 志心朝禮 takes 朝 as cháo, "to pay court." He announces himself in the full formal style, as though the right ceremony might put the scene back in order.
The Bodhisattva said: "Wait outside."
教 jiào, "bade." Two characters, and she does not look up from the bamboo. That composure is what his urgency breaks against.
Pilgrim knocked his head and said: "Bodhisattva, my master is in peril. I have come on purpose to ask the source of the fiend in the River That Reaches to Heaven."
有難: 難 nàn, the noun "peril." 拜問, to ask with a bow; 根源, the root and the source — precisely the question he set out to put.
The Bodhisattva said: "Go on out, and wait while I come."
She repeats the dismissal almost word for word and will not be hurried. The whole tension of the passage sits between his haste and her unhurriedness.
Two tempers colliding. Wukong bursts in with a full formal salutation — 弟子孫悟空志心朝禮 — as though the correct ceremony might restore order to the scene; the Bodhisattva answers in two characters, 外面俟候, wait outside, and does not lift her eyes from the bamboo. His master is drowning under a river and his urgency is entirely real. Her calm is not indifference: it is a different order of time, in which the basket already is the answer and cannot be woven any faster.
Nothing is explained. She does not say what the basket is for, does not acknowledge the danger he names, does not put down her work. Her refusal to perform her office on demand — to put on the robes, mount the dais, and receive a petition in form — is of a piece with the undress of the poem before it. The rescue is going to come out of the homely labour and not out of the ceremony, and she will not pretend otherwise to soothe Wukong's nerves. He is sent back out, and the chapter keeps him there while she finishes.