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下回分解 To Be Continued
畢竟這去，後面再有甚麼吉凶之事，且聽下回分解。毕竟这去，后面再有甚么吉凶之事，且听下回分解。
逐句解 Line by line
畢竟這去，後面再有甚麼吉凶之事，且聽下回分解。
毕竟这去，后面再有甚么吉凶之事，且听下回分解。
As to what fortune or misfortune lay ahead of them on this road, listen to the explanation in the next instalment.
The storyteller's closing formula, unchanged across the novel. 甚 is shén, the interrogative; 解 is jiě, to unfold or explain — the same character that untied the bell in the proverb a few hundred characters back.
The chapter ends where every chapter of this novel ends: with a man in a market square telling you to come back tomorrow. 且聽下回分解 — listen to the explanation in the next instalment — is a formula from oral storytelling that survived into print unchanged, and it is the reason these books are divided the way they are.
吉凶 is the last pair of characters before it: good fortune and bad, which is what you would ask a diviner about. The chapter that has just finished began with a lyric about seeing through form and emptiness, and it closes by promising more of the same trouble down the road.