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九泉之下 Beneath the Nine Springs
千萬發大慈悲，救我一命，九泉之下，決不忘恩。」說罷，淚下如雨。千万发大慈悲，救我一命，九泉之下，决不忘恩。」说罢，泪下如雨。
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千萬發大慈悲，救我一命，九泉之下，決不忘恩。」
千万发大慈悲，救我一命，九泉之下，决不忘恩。」
I beg you, of your great mercy, save my life, and beneath the Nine Springs I shall never forget the debt."
九泉, the Nine Springs, is the Chinese underworld — the waters under the earth where the dead go. Swearing gratitude from beyond death is the strongest form of the promise available.
說罷，淚下如雨。
说罢，泪下如雨。
When she had finished speaking, her tears fell like rain.
Here 罷 is bà, the verb "to finish," not the unstressed ba that ends a suggestion. The chapter uses both, six times each, and this is the difference between "having done speaking" and "let us go, then."
The speech ends where it began, with weeping, and the whole performance has been framed by tears at both ends. Between them she has supplied a home, parents, a festival, an ambush, a quarrel, a timescale and a debt.
Notice what she has never once asked for. She does not ask to be untied. She asks to be saved, which is a religious word as much as a practical one, and she offers gratitude that will outlast her death. She is not requesting a favour from a passer-by; she is offering a monk the chance to be what he says he is.