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且聽下回 Listen to the Next Chapter
畢竟不知這番怎麼結果，且聽下回分解。毕竟不知这番怎么结果，且听下回分解。
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畢竟不知這番怎麼結果，且聽下回分解。
毕竟不知这番怎么结果，且听下回分解。
In the end there is no knowing how this bout will turn out; listen to the explanation in the next chapter.
畢竟 is "when all is said and done". 分解 takes 解 as jiě, to expound or explain — the storyteller promising to unravel it next time. The formula closes every chapter of the novel, a leftover from the days when this material was performed aloud and the teller wanted the crowd back tomorrow.
The storyteller's tag, kept in a passage of its own so that the chapter proper ends on the couplet rather than on the formula.
It is not idle here. Ch.50 ends with the master tied up, two disciples bound, and Wukong disarmed and out of ideas — the first time in the whole pilgrimage that he has lost the rod.
The 金兜山 arc runs on through Ch.51 and Ch.52, and neither the ring nor the question of where the fiend came from is answered until the end of it.