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已一一救他 Saved Them Every One Of Them
行者道：「已一一救他出去，待我們起身時送還。」長老謝了又謝，方才就寢。行者道：「已一一救他出去，待我们起身时送还。」长老谢了又谢，方才就寝。
逐句解 Line by line
行者道：「已一一救他出去，待我們起身時送還。」
行者道：「已一一救他出去，待我们起身时送还。」
Pilgrim said, "I have saved them out one by one, and they will be sent back when we set off."
一一 is yī yī, one by one, and both characters keep their full tone. Doubled like this the numeral is an adverb of thoroughness rather than a count of anything, so neither of them shifts. Wukong is saying he did not miss a house.
長老謝了又謝，方才就寢。
长老谢了又谢，方才就寝。
The elder thanked him again and again, and only then went to bed.
謝了又謝 — thanked and thanked again. 方才 is "only then," and it is doing quiet work: Tripitaka could not sleep until he had been told.
The night ends in twenty-eight characters. Wukong reports, the master thanks him, and everyone goes to bed. The novel gives the largest rescue in the chapter no celebration at all.
The phrase one by one is the thing to hold on to. Wukong is not saying he saved the children; he is saying he saved each of them, which is the difference between a number and eleven hundred and eleven separate front doors. The chapter has been insisting on that distinction since the honeybee looked into the first coop.