燒湯梳妝 She Calls for Hot Water
獃子粗鹵，不容分說，舉釘鈀，望他那石頭門上盡力氣一鈀，唿喇喇築做幾塊。諕得那幾個枕梆鈴睡的丫鬟跑至二層門外，叫聲：「開門，前門被昨日那兩個醜男人打破了！」那女怪正出房門，只見四五個丫鬟跑進去報道：「奶奶，昨日那兩個醜男人又來把前門已打碎矣。」那怪聞言，即忙叫：「小的們，燒湯洗面梳妝。」叫：「把御弟連繩擡在後房收了。等我打他去。」呆子粗卤，不容分说，举钉钯，望他那石头门上尽力气一钯，唿喇喇筑做几块。諕得那几个枕梆铃睡的丫鬟跑至二层门外，叫声：「开门，前门被昨日那两个丑男人打破了！」那女怪正出房门，只见四五个丫鬟跑进去报道：「奶奶，昨日那两个丑男人又来把前门已打碎矣。」那怪闻言，即忙叫：「小的们，烧汤洗面梳妆。」叫：「把御弟连绳抬在后房收了。等我打他去。」
逐句解 Line by line
The idiot, coarse and headlong, would hear no discussion: he raised his muckrake and with the whole of his strength struck one blow at her stone door, and with a crash it broke into several pieces.
不容分說 — allowing no discussion — takes 分 as fēn. 唿喇喇 is a sound-word for the crash and keeps its ordinary reading. The 一 before 鈀 stays yì: a corpus-wide ruling re-reads 鈀 from bǎ to pá, but third tone and second tone both give yì, so nothing moves.
It so frightened those maidservants asleep on the clapper and bell that they ran out past the second gate, crying, “Open up! The front door has been broken down by those two ugly men from yesterday!”
諕 is always xià, to frighten; the háo reading would be wrong. 諕得 is the "so frightened that" construction and takes 得 as de, agreeing with the three sites of the near-identical phrase elsewhere in the chapter.
The woman fiend was just coming out at her chamber door when four or five maidservants came running in to report, “Madam! Those two ugly men from yesterday have come again, and have smashed the front door to pieces.”
The same news is carried out and then carried in again in almost the same words. The literary 已 and the final 矣 give the second telling a faintly official finish, as though the maids were filing a report.
Hearing this, the fiend called at once, “Little ones — heat water, that I may wash my face and dress my hair.”
燒湯洗面梳妝 is four verbs of the toilette in a row: heat water, wash face, comb, dress the hair. And 即忙 marks haste — which makes what she is hurrying to do all the more remarkable.
And she called, “Carry the royal brother, rope and all, into the back chamber and put him away. Let me go and give them a beating.”
連繩 is "rope and all" — he is not untied, merely moved as he lies. 收 here is to stow or put away, the same verb she used when she had him taken off at the first alarm. She is putting her guest somewhere safe the way you would move a vase before a party.
Bajie does at this door exactly what Pilgrim would not let him do at the same door three thousand characters ago. Then it was 無知, done in ignorance, and Pilgrim caught his arm and sent him to wait behind the screen. Now it is 不容分說, brooking no discussion, and nobody stops him. The rake goes in with his full weight behind it and the stone door comes apart. The chapter has built its own bookend, and the only difference is that the question which required caution has now been answered.
What follows is household comedy built on repetition. The maids who were asleep on the watchman's clapper and bell — the very pair posted to listen for this — wake and run outward through the second gate shouting for someone to open it; then four or five more run inward to tell their mistress. The same news travels in both directions in nearly the same words, and the demon learns of the attack from her own staff rather than from the noise, which was loud enough to break stone.
Her response is the detail worth keeping. 即忙, at once, urgently — and then: heat water, wash my face, dress my hair. She stops to make her toilette before going out to fight. It would be easy to read that as vanity, but it is of a piece with everything else about her household: the barred doors, the posted watches, the tidied bedchamber, the vegetarian buns. She conducts a siege the way she conducted a seduction, as domestic business properly ordered — and her last instruction before combat is to have her guest stowed in the back room, rope and all, so he will be where she left him when she gets back.