清華仙府 Behind The Stone Screen
行者急拽步，行近前邊細看，見石屏上有四個大字：「清華仙府」。他忍不住，跳過石屏看處，只見那老怪懷中摟著個美女，喘噓噓的，正講比丘國事，齊聲叫道：「好機會來，三年事，今日得完，被那猴頭破了。」行者急拽步，行近前边细看，见石屏上有四个大字：「清华仙府」。他忍不住，跳过石屏看处，只见那老怪怀中搂着个美女，喘嘘嘘的，正讲比丘国事，齐声叫道：「好机会来，三年事，今日得完，被那猴头破了。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim hurried his pace, went close up to look, and saw four large characters on the stone screen: Clear Splendour Immortal Residence.
仙府, immortal residence, is the third name this place has had in two pages. The king was told 莊, a manor; the local god said 洞, a cave; and the creature's own signboard says 仙府. He did not simply lie to the court — he has been lying to his own front door.
He could not hold himself back, and jumped past the stone screen to look, and there was the old fiend with a beautiful woman gathered in his arms, panting, talking over the affair of Bhikṣu, and they were saying together, "What a fine chance it was! Three years' work, and it would have been finished today, and that monkey-head has broken it."
摟著 takes zhe, the reading for an action still going on: he has her in his arms and is keeping her there. 喘噓噓, panting and gasping, is doing work the novel does not spell out. 猴頭, monkey-head, is what everyone calls Wukong when they are angry with him, and hearing it from inside the cave is how he knows he has the right address.
The scene Wukong walks in on is domestic, which is what makes it strange. Two monsters in an empty paradise, holding each other and complaining about how their three-year project has been ruined. They sound less like fiends than like a couple whose business has failed.
That impression is deliberate and the chapter will collect on it at the very end, when a deer that cannot speak stands over a dead fox and refuses to be led away. The novel plants the attachment here, in an aside, and never once asks the reader to sympathise with it.