扯扯拽拽 Pulled And Dragged Till Dawn
長老咄的一聲吆喝，跳起身來就走。被那些人扯扯拽拽，嚷到天明。忽聽得那裡叫聲：「師父，師父，你在那方言語也？」长老咄的一声吆喝，跳起身来就走。被那些人扯扯拽拽，嚷到天明。忽听得那里叫声：「师父，师父，你在那方言语也？」
逐句解 Line by line
The elder gave one shout of Tut! and sprang up to go.
咄 is a noise of rebuke rather than a word — closer to "Tut!" than to any sentence — and it is the whole of his answer. 喝 is hè, to shout, inside 吆喝; the automatic reading gives the drinking value.
But those people pulled and dragged at him, and the clamour went on till daybreak.
拽 is zhuài here in the doubled 扯扯拽拽, the value it keeps at every prose site in the chapter; the one occurrence at yè is inside a poem, in 搖拽. The automatic reading gives zhuāi, which is neither.
Suddenly he heard voices calling over there: "Master! Master! In what quarter are you speaking?"
The character 那 stands twice in this segment with different values, so both are pinned by where they sit: 那裡 is the pointing nà, over there, while 那方 is the questioning nǎ inside a direct question. The sealed chapters read 們是那方來 the same way.
His whole refusal is one syllable. Tut, and he is on his feet — and then the sentence turns and it is no longer a party but a scuffle, with people hauling at his sleeves and the noise going on until it gets light. The chapter has taken four blocks to arrive at physical force and spends eleven characters on it.
The rescue arrives in the middle of the noise and from outside, and what carries is not a name but a question: in what quarter are you speaking? They cannot see him. They have been looking all night.