請法官求雨 Send For The Rain Masters
眾官道：「神僧說，無根水不是井、河中者，乃是天上落下不沾地的才是。」國王即喚當駕官傳旨，教請法官求雨。眾官遵依出榜不題。众官道：「神僧说，无根水不是井、河中者，乃是天上落下不沾地的才是。」国王即唤当驾官传旨，教请法官求雨。众官遵依出榜不题。
逐句解 Line by line
The officials said, "The divine monk says rootless water is not the sort from wells or rivers. It has to fall from the sky and not touch the ground."
The officials now have to correct their own king, using the same words Pilgrim used to correct them. 落 is again luò rather than là.
The king at once summoned the officer of the day to issue a decree: the ritual masters were to be sent for, to pray for rain.
法官 here is not a judge but a Daoist ritual master. An entire kingdom is about to be put to the trouble of a rain ceremony so that three pills can be swallowed. 當駕官 is the officer on duty, with 當 at dāng.
The officials obeyed and had the proclamation put out; of that no more.
不題 — of that, no more — is the storyteller dropping a thread he has no intention of picking up. He raises a royal proclamation and walks away from it in one breath.
The officials now have to correct their own king about rootless water, using the same words Pilgrim used to correct them. The correction travels down the chain intact, while the one piece of information that actually matters never enters it at all.
The king's response is to summon the officer of the day and issue a decree: send for the ritual masters and pray for rain. An entire kingdom is now being put to the trouble of a rain ceremony so that three pills of soot and horse urine can go down.
And then the storyteller drops it. He raises a royal proclamation and walks away from it in a single breath, because the rain is not going to come from any ceremony and everybody reading already knows who it will come from.