解毒丹 Three Pills Of Antidote
我這裡有解毒丹，送你三丸。」行者轉身拜求。那菩薩袖中取出一個破紙包兒，內將三粒紅丸子遞與行者，教放入口裡。我这里有解毒丹，送你三丸。」行者转身拜求。那菩萨袖中取出一个破纸包儿，内将三粒红丸子递与行者，教放入口里。
逐句解 Line by line
"I have here a poison-dissolving elixir. I will give you three pills."
解毒 keeps 解 as jiě, to loosen or dissolve — the everyday reading, as against the xiè of 解數 in the fight verse. 丹 is a cinnabar elixir, the characteristic product of Daoist alchemy, and here it is the counter to one.
Pilgrim turned and bowed in entreaty.
Six characters, and no dialogue. He has stopped talking, which for this character is the strongest thing he can do.
The bodhisattva brought out of her sleeve a battered paper packet, took three red pills from inside it and handed them to Pilgrim, telling him to put them in their mouths.
破紙包兒 — a torn paper packet. The Daoist kept his poison in a locked leather box on a roof-beam behind a bed, with the key knotted into a silk handkerchief in his sleeve. She keeps the antidote loose in her sleeve in a bit of old paper. And both are 紅, red: red dates and red pills.
The two containers are the argument of the whole chapter set side by side. He had a leather box, eight 寸 by a 尺 by four, on a beam behind a bed, reached by ladder, closed with a brass lock whose key he kept knotted into silk inside his sleeve. She has a torn paper packet, loose in her sleeve.
One of them was guarding something worth guarding and the other has something worth having. The book does not say it. It just describes both sleeves.
And the colour matches. Three red dates went into each cup; three red pills come out of the packet. The remedy is shaped exactly like the injury, which is how Chinese medicine tends to think and how this novel tends to plot.