手到病除 The Hand That Ends The Sickness
太監奏道：「奴婢等早領出招醫皇榜，鼓樓下張掛。有東土大唐遠來取經的一個聖僧孫長老揭了，現在會同館內，要王親自去請他，他有手到病除之功。故此特來啟奏。」太监奏道：「奴婢等早领出招医皇榜，鼓楼下张挂。有东土大唐远来取经的一个圣僧孙长老揭了，现在会同馆内，要王亲自去请他，他有手到病除之功。故此特来启奏。」
逐句解 Line by line
The eunuchs reported, "Your servants took out the royal notice calling for a physician this morning and posted it below the drum tower.
早 here means 'this morning' rather than 'early'. They are dating the event, and the notice has been gone since before noon.
"A holy monk from the Great Tang in the Land of the East, come far to seek scriptures — the Elder Sun — has taken it down. He is now at the Hall of Common Assembly, and requires that Your Majesty go and invite him in person; he has the power to make the sickness go the moment his hand is laid on it."
長 is zhǎng in 孫長老, an elder of the order — the first of the chapter's seven uses of that title, all of them from this point on. The closing phrase is Pilgrim's own, carried to the throne without a character altered.
"For that reason we have come expressly to report."
Six characters of formula. Everything remarkable in the message has already been said; the sentence exists to close the memorial properly.
The eunuch's report is scrupulously exact, and it makes an absurdity sound like a procedure. A monk has taken the notice, he is at the government hostel, and he requires the king to come to him — all delivered in the flat manner of an official who has been told something and is passing it on.
手到病除 crosses the city unaltered. Pilgrim invented the phrase in a guest room a few minutes ago; it is now standing in a memorial at the foot of the throne, and the king will act on it.