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The Mind-Lord by Night Compounds the Medicines · The Sovereign at the Banquet Discourses on the Demon

打兩個噴涕
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打兩個噴涕 Two Sneezes Will Do

lóngwángdào:「dàiliǎngpēnxiēxiánjīnchīyàoba。」xíngzhědào:「zuìhǎozuìhǎochíchènzǎoxíngshì。」lóngwángdào:「dàiliǎngpēnxiēxiánjīnchīyàoba。」xíngzhědào:「zuìhǎozuìhǎochíchènzǎoxíngshì。」


逐句解 Line by line

lóngwángdào:「dàiliǎngpēnxiēxiánjīnchīyàoba。」 lóngwángdào:「dàiliǎngpēnxiēxiánjīnchīyàoba。」

The Dragon King said, "If that is all, let me sneeze twice and spit out a little saliva, and he can take his medicine with that."

The sweet rain that a whole court will shortly kneel to catch is here being arranged as two sneezes. is the light ba that softens a proposal, not the of 也罷.

xíngzhědào:「zuìhǎozuìhǎo xíngzhědào:「zuìhǎozuìhǎo

Pilgrim was delighted. "Excellent, excellent.

He raises no objection at all to the method, which is entirely consistent with everything else he has put in this prescription.

chíchènzǎoxíngshì。」 chíchènzǎoxíngshì。」

"No need to hesitate — get on with it at once."

趁早行事 — get on with it — is a near-twin of the 趕早幹事 Eight Rules used at midnight when he wanted to go to bed. Near, and not the same: two of the four characters differ.


總評 Commentary

Relieved of the requirement to produce actual weather, the Dragon King proposes the minimum: two sneezes and a little spittle, and the man can take his medicine. He offers it as the obvious economy, which it is.

Pilgrim is delighted and raises no objection whatever. He has spent the night compounding soot and horse urine into pills; there is nothing in dragon spit to give him pause.