絳紗燈籠 Two Lanterns Of Crimson Gauze
正話間，只見石屋之外，有兩個青衣女童，挑一對絳紗燈籠，後引著一個仙女。那仙女撚著一枝杏花，笑吟吟進門相見。正话间，只见石屋之外，有两个青衣女童，挑一对绛纱灯笼，后引着一个仙女。那仙女撚着一枝杏花，笑吟吟进门相见。
逐句解 Line by line
Just as they were talking, outside the stone house there appeared two serving-girls in blue, carrying a pair of crimson gauze lanterns on poles, and leading in behind them an immortal woman.
著 is the ongoing-action zhe; the automatic reading gives the zhù of authorship, as it does at every occurrence in this chapter. 挑 is tiāo, to carry something slung from a shoulder-pole.
The immortal woman held a sprig of apricot blossom between her fingers, and came in at the door smiling to greet them.
The sprig of apricot blossom in her hand is the whole disclosure, offered in her first sentence, and nobody in the room reacts to it. 相 is the mutual xiāng.
The staging is unlike anything else in the chapter. Everyone so far has simply been present or has arrived on a gust of dark wind; this arrival has lanterns, attendants, and an entrance. Two girls in blue go first with crimson gauze on poles, and the woman comes in behind them.
She is carrying a sprig of apricot blossom, which tells the reader exactly what she is. The four elders are evergreens, and one of them said not three passages ago that his kind is not to be found in the field where the flowers are gaudy. The one flowering spirit in the story walks in holding her own flower, and the four of them rise to greet her.