夫妻之禮 Coax Him In With Wifely Courtesy
那妖王愈加嚴緊，不肯開門。你可再以夫妻之禮，哄他進來安寢，我好脫身行事，別作區處救你也。」那妖王愈加严紧，不肯开门。你可再以夫妻之礼，哄他进来安寝，我好脱身行事，别作区处救你也。」
逐句解 Line by line
"That fiend king has grown stricter still and will not have the door opened.
Security has tightened since the theft. 那 is nà, pointing at someone already named. 不 stays bù before the rising tone of 肯.
"You must use a wife's courtesy on him once more and coax him in to his rest,
The plan, such as it is. 哄 is hǒng, to coax or jolly somebody into something; the sound for an uproar is a different reading of the same character. 夫 takes its full tone fū here, unlike the light syllable it had in 工夫 back in the chapter's opening lyric.
"so that I may get free to act and make some other arrangement to save you."
And the point of the plan, which is getting himself out. 處 is chǔ in 區處, the verb for sorting a matter out. The same character means a place at 分鴛兩處 and 門首看處, 209 and 293 characters back.
Thirty-eight characters, and the plan inside them is not a good one. Wukong's proposal is that the woman he has just startled should go back to the fiend, be charming, and get him into bed — and he puts it to her as a favour to himself, so that he can slip out.
The wording is careful about exactly one thing. 夫妻之禮 is the formula for what a wife owes a husband in a real marriage, and he applies it to one that is not; the verb he ties to it is 哄, to fool. The chapter will later go to some trouble to establish that nothing was ever consummated between them, and the anxiety starts here, in a sentence asking her to pretend otherwise.
娘娘 turns up sixty-one times in this chapter, against thirty-one in the one before — nearly double, though not quite. She is on stage almost throughout, and almost never doing anything she chose.