我且寧耐 I Will Wait Then
壽星道：「既這等說，我且寧耐。你與天蓬下洞擒捉那美人來，同去現相可也。」行者道：「老弟略等等兒，我們去了就來。」寿星道：「既这等说，我且宁耐。你与天蓬下洞擒捉那美人来，同去现相可也。」行者道：「老弟略等等儿，我们去了就来。」
逐句解 Line by line
The Longevity Star said, "If you put it that way, I will be patient and wait.
寧耐 is an older way of writing patience, literally something like "quiet endurance." He agrees at once and without argument, which is to his credit — he had not thought of it, and the moment it is put to him he sees it.
You and Heavenly Reeds go down into the cave and seize that beauty, and then we can all go and show the forms together."
He gives the order as though it were his idea, which is how seniority recovers itself. He also uses Bajie's proper celestial title again, and Bajie is about to go and do something to a fox that nobody would call dignified. 現相 again, and 相 is xiàng here as well.
Pilgrim said, "Wait a little, brother, we will go and come straight back."
等等兒, with 兒 as ér, is a casual softening — "hang on a moment." The chapter's last exchange before the killing is two old acquaintances agreeing to meet back here shortly.
The negotiation ends in complete agreement and takes forty-four characters. Nobody loses face, the god gets his deer, the kingdom gets its demonstration, and the only party whose interests are not represented is the woman in the cave.
The scene closes on an errand. Two of them are going back in to fetch her, and the tone of the arrangement — wait here, we won't be long — is that of men going to collect a parcel. What they bring back will be a dead fox dragged by the tail.