買辦調和 Sent To Buy The Seasonings
八戒道：「我們是東土差往西天取經的。我師父乃唐王御弟法師，卻才入朝，倒換關文去了。我與師兄來此買辦調和，我見樓下人多，未曾敢去，是我師兄教我在此等候。八戒道：「我们是东土差往西天取经的。我师父乃唐王御弟法师，却才入朝，倒换关文去了。我与师兄来此买办调和，我见楼下人多，未曾敢去，是我师兄教我在此等候。
逐句解 Line by line
Eight Rules said, "We are sent from the Land of the East to fetch scriptures in the Western Heaven.
差 is chāi, sent on official business — the same reading as the 欽差 of the gate officer's report to the throne, and not the chà of falling short.
"My master is the Tang emperor's sworn younger brother and a master of the law. He has just gone into court to have our rescript endorsed."
倒 is dǎo, the verb, at every mention of the rescript in this chapter. 御弟 is the title the Tang emperor conferred by taking the monk as a sworn younger brother.
"My elder brother and I came here to buy seasonings. I saw the crowd below the tower and did not dare go on, so my brother told me to wait here."
調 is tiáo, seasoning, for the sixth time in the chapter — nobody has yet bought any. 教 is jiào, to tell somebody to do something.
The account is scrupulously accurate, and it includes the detail that damns him — that he was the one who refused to go on, and was left waiting at exactly the spot where the notice ended up in his shirt.
It is also the first time in the chapter that Eight Rules has stated the pilgrimage's business himself. Tripitaka gave it to the throne in a rhapsody of a hundred and ninety-one characters; his disciple manages it in twelve.