織金袍 A Robe Woven With Gold
又進數里看時，見一個女道姑坐在榻上。你看他怎生模樣：又进数里看时，见一个女道姑坐在榻上。你看他怎生模样：
逐句解 Line by line
He went several li further in and looked, and saw a woman in Daoist dress sitting on a couch.
數里 keeps 數 as shù, several. Note how far in she is: several li inside her own cave. 女道姑 is a female religious — and it is worth registering that the sage he has been sent to fetch, on the word of one goddess, about a Buddhist monk's poisoning, is presented first as a Daoist nun.
Look how she was got up:
⚠ 模樣 takes 模 as mú, appearance — registered explicitly, because the character's ordinary reading is mó, a pattern or model. And the tag is word for word the one that introduced the Daoist's portrait near the start of the chapter, 你看他怎生打扮. The book is announcing a comparison.
On her head a five-flowered cap of quilted brocade, on her body a robe woven with gold.
納錦 is quilted or padded brocade, stitched in layers. And the structure should look familiar: 頭戴 for the head, 身穿 for the body, and two more to come. This is the Daoist's costume verse rebuilt from the same four verbs.
On her feet cloud-tipped phoenix-head shoes, at her waist a twisted-silk sash with a double tassel.
⚠ And the mirror completes. 腳踏 for the feet, 腰繫 for the waist — the same four verbs in the same body order as the Daoist's portrait, and both verses close on a 絛, a sash. In the whole chapter 戴 occurs twice, 履 twice and 絛 twice, and all six are in these two verses, 4,933 characters apart. 繫 is jì, to tie; 攢 is cuán, drawn together — twisted silk.
Two costume verses, one at each end of the chapter, built from the same four verbs in the same order down the body: head, torso, feet, waist. The Daoist got a red cap inlaid with gold, a black robe, cloud-toed shoes and a Lü Gong sash. She gets a brocade cap, a gold-woven robe, phoenix-head shoes and a twisted-silk sash. Both close on the same word.
The parallel is not decoration; it is the argument. The chapter has been about two religious professionals with impressive wardrobes, and it is about to set them against each other. Putting her into his verse-shape says they are the same kind of thing — and the next passage will say, in the same breath, that they are not.
Note also that she is several li inside her own cave, sitting on a couch, dressed like that, with nobody in the place. She has not come out to meet a visitor and she is not going anywhere. The Daoist, by contrast, changed his gown twice and came down the steps.