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踉踉蹡蹡 Reeling And Staggering Backwards
那獃子猛擡頭，把嘴一𢵮。諕得那幾個校尉踉踉蹡蹡，跌倒在地。那呆子猛擡头，把嘴一𢵮。諕得那几个校尉踉踉蹡蹡，跌倒在地。
逐句解 Line by line
那獃子猛擡頭，把嘴一𢵮。
那呆子猛擡头，把嘴一𢵮。
The Idiot jerked his head up and gave his snout a lū — one thrust outward.
The last character of this segment lies outside the range most fonts carry; it reads lū and means to shove or jut a thing forward. 猛 puts the whole movement into one beat: he was asleep, and the next thing anybody sees is the snout.
諕得那幾個校尉踉踉蹡蹡，跌倒在地。
諕得那几个校尉踉踉蹡蹡，跌倒在地。
It so frightened those few guardsmen that they went reeling and staggering and fell sprawling on the ground.
諕 reads xià against a default of háo, and 得 after it weakens to de to carry what follows. 踉踉蹡蹡 doubles both its characters, as 擠擠挨挨 and 跌跌爬爬 did before it.
This is the second time in the chapter that the snout has cleared a space, and the first time Eight Rules has not meant it to. He did it once at the hostel gate on purpose, then boasted of that same occasion as proof he should not be sent to market. Here he is simply woken up, and the effect is identical.
The joke has been carefully set. He refused to go to the market precisely because he would frighten people, was told that was nonsense, and was parked at a wall for his own safety — and has now frightened a detachment of royal guardsmen off their feet without leaving the spot he was told to stand on.