雙眸滴淚 Her Two Eyes Dropping Tears
直入裡面看時,有兩班妖狐、妖鹿,一個個都妝成美女之形,侍立左右。正中間坐著那個娘娘,手托著香腮,雙眸滴淚。直入里面看时,有两班妖狐、妖鹿,一个个都妆成美女之形,侍立左右。正中间坐着那个娘娘,手托着香腮,双眸滴泪。
逐句解 Line by line
Going right inside to look, he found two ranks of fiend foxes and fiend deer, every one of them got up in the shape of a beautiful woman, waiting to left and right.
妝成 is to be made up into something — the attendants are not women and have been dressed as women. The same character stood in the cosmetic case the king could not bear to open, a thousand characters back, and the queen is the only person in this room who is what she appears to be.
In the very middle sat the queen herself, her hand propping her scented cheek, and the tears dropping from both her eyes.
著 falls twice and is the zhe of an action held both times: the sitting is held and the hand is held. 正中間 puts her at the centre of a room she has been placed in rather than one she keeps.
Two ranks of animals dressed as women, and one woman. The arrangement is a court and it is a fake court, staffed by foxes and deer made up for the part, and the only real person in it is the one who was brought here against her will and is crying.
Nothing in either sentence says she is guarded. She is simply in the middle, with attendants left and right, in the posture of a queen holding audience — and the posture is the point. The demon has built her the entire trappings of the position, and she has been sitting in it weeping.