請各歸祠 Go Back To Your Shrines
那國王妃后與一應臣民,又俱下拜。行者望空道:「有勞列位,請各歸祠,我著民間祭祀謝你。」呼呼淅淅,陰風又起而退。那国王妃后与一应臣民,又俱下拜。行者望空道:「有劳列位,请各归祠,我着民间祭祀谢你。」呼呼淅淅,阴风又起而退。
逐句解 Line by line
The king, the queens and consorts and every subject of the realm bowed down again.
一應臣民 is yī yìng, meaning the entire body of them — and the reading runs backwards: fixing 應 up to yìng pulls 一 down to yí. No table can see that happen; only the sandhi check does.
Pilgrim called up into the air, "I am obliged to you, gentlemen. Please go back to your shrines, and I will have the people sacrifice and give you thanks."
著 is zhuó, the dispatching sense: he will set the people to it. 有勞列位 is ordinary courtesy between colleagues, and that is how Wukong speaks to the assembled spirit bureaucracy — as one official thanking a working party.
With a rushing and a whistling the shadowy wind rose again and withdrew.
呼呼淅淅 pairs two sound words, one heavy and one thin, for wind going away. The gods leave the way they came, and the chapter has one thing left to do.
Wukong's manners with the spirit world are consistent to the end. He summoned them, he thanks them by rank, and he promises them offerings from the people rather than from himself.
The promise is the point. These are gods who live on sacrifice, and what he gives them is a congregation. A kingdom that spent three years being frightened of its own Royal Father-in-Law now has a reason to burn incense to the officials who were too frightened to speak.