眾僧的枷鎖 The Cangues Are Struck Off
國王教錦衣衛好生收監。傳旨：「赦了金光寺眾僧的枷鎖。快教光祿寺排宴，就於麒麟殿上謝聖僧獲賊之功，議請聖僧捕擒賊首。」国王教锦衣卫好生收监。传旨：「赦了金光寺众僧的枷锁。快教光禄寺排宴，就于麒麟殿上谢圣僧获贼之功，议请圣僧捕擒贼首。」
逐句解 Line by line
The king ordered the Embroidered-Uniform Guard to put them safely in prison.
收監 is committing a prisoner to custody. The two creatures drop out of the chapter's foreground here, and will be wanted again only as guides.
He sent down a decree: "Remit the cangues and chains of all the monks of the Temple of Golden Light.
Twelve characters, and they undo the whole of the chapter's injustice. The release arrives as the second clause of a decree whose first clause was about jailing somebody else, and nobody in the scene remarks on it.
"Have the Court of Imperial Entertainments set out a banquet at once, and upon the Unicorn Hall give thanks to the holy monk for the merit of taking the thieves, and ask him to consider the seizing of their chief."
光祿寺 is the Ming office that arranged state banquets — another piece of the author's own government dropped into a Tang-period kingdom. 麒麟殿 is a hall name the novel has used twice before, of the Tang court in the tenth chapter and of the Kingdom of Women's palace in the fifty-fourth, both times with a peacock screen beside it. The stock furniture of a court is the same wherever the pilgrims find one.
The order the whole chapter has been working toward takes twelve characters and comes as the middle item of three. Jail the fiends; strike the collars off the monks; lay on a banquet. The men who have been beaten for three years and were begging in the street two days ago are freed in a subordinate clause.
And the last thing the king says is what the rest of the chapter will be about: 議請聖僧捕擒賊首, ask the holy monk to consider seizing the chief of the thieves. The theft has been solved. The treasure is still at the bottom of a pool a hundred lǐ away.