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當天窗 A Skylight And A Chimney
行者笑道：「沒事，等老孫把金箍棒往頂門裡一搠，搠個窟窿：一則當天窗，二來當煙洞。」行者笑道：「没事，等老孙把金箍棒往顶门里一搠，搠个窟窿：一则当天窗，二来当烟洞。」
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行者笑道：「沒事，等老孫把金箍棒往頂門裡一搠，搠個窟窿：一則當天窗，二來當煙洞。」
行者笑道：「没事，等老孙把金箍棒往顶门里一搠，搠个窟窿：一则当天窗，二来当烟洞。」
Wukong laughed: "No trouble. Let old Sun give the gold-hooped rod a jab up through the crown of your head and punch a hole: first it does for a skylight, and second it does for a chimney."
一則 takes 一 at its full citation tone yī, because it opens a numbered list — the tone shift that normally applies before another syllable does not run on an enumerator. It is the second such site in this chapter. 頂門 is the crown of the skull, the same place the sabre poem called 天靈蓋.
The answer to a ventilation problem is a hole in the roof, and the roof is the top of the demon's head. Wukong has now proposed to bore through a treasure containing the trigrams and the twenty-four breaths of the year, and through a lion's skull, in the same chapter and with the same instinct. The title said he would bore through the body of yin and yang, and the book keeps finding new bodies for him to bore through.
The two-item list is the joke's structure. Not a threat but a specification: first a skylight, second a chimney, one hole doing both. He is offering home improvements.