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安排個草鋪
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安排個草鋪 A Straw Bed Behind The Guardian

那nà僧sēng謝xiè道dào:「既jì老lǎo師shī寬kuān厚hòu,請qǐng他tā到dào天tiān王wáng殿diàn裡lǐ,就jiù在zài天tiān王wáng爺yé爺ye身shēn後hòu,安ān排pái個gè草cǎo鋪pù,教jiào他tā睡shuì罷ba。」三sān藏zàng道dào:「甚shèn好hǎo,甚shèn好hǎo。」那nà僧sēng谢xiè道dào:「既jì老lǎo师shī宽kuān厚hòu,请qǐng他tā到dào天tiān王wáng殿diàn里lǐ,就jiù在zài天tiān王wáng爷yé爷ye身shēn后hòu,安ān排pái个gè草cǎo铺pù,教jiào他tā睡shuì罢ba。」三sān藏zàng道dào:「甚shèn好hǎo,甚shèn好hǎo。」


逐句解 Line by line

那nà僧sēng謝xiè道dào:「既jì老lǎo師shī寬kuān厚hòu,請qǐng他tā到dào天tiān王wáng殿diàn裡lǐ,就jiù在zài天tiān王wáng爺yé爺ye身shēn後hòu,安ān排pái個gè草cǎo鋪pù,教jiào他tā睡shuì罷ba。」 那nà僧sēng谢xiè道dào:「既jì老lǎo师shī宽kuān厚hòu,请qǐng他tā到dào天tiān王wáng殿diàn里lǐ,就jiù在zài天tiān王wáng爷yé爷ye身shēn后hòu,安ān排pái个gè草cǎo铺pù,教jiào他tā睡shuì罢ba。」

The monk thanked him and said, "Since the master is so generous, let her be taken to the Hall of the Heavenly Kings, and there behind His Lordship the Heavenly King let a straw pallet be arranged, and let her sleep there."

罷 is the unstressed ba here, the softener that turns an instruction into a suggestion — the opposite of the full verb bà two passages back. 鋪 is pù, a plank or straw bed. The 天王 are the four Heavenly Kings who guard the gate of every Chinese monastery, armoured giants with swords and serpents.

三sān藏zàng道dào:「甚shèn好hǎo,甚shèn好hǎo。」 三sān藏zàng道dào:「甚shèn好hǎo,甚shèn好hǎo。」

Tripitaka said, "Very good, very good."

甚 is shèn in both of these, the intensifier very — the same character that was the question word what in the previous passage.


總評 Commentary

The solution is a compromise everyone can live with: not in the monks' quarters, not turned out into the night, but on straw behind the biggest and most heavily armed statue in the building.

The placement is the novel's joke and the novel's warning at once. She is put under the protection of the guardian kings, and she is a fiend, so she is in fact being tucked in behind the very figures whose job is to keep her kind out. The Heavenly Kings will guard nothing tonight.

Tripitaka's reply is four characters of untroubled approval. He has solved a housekeeping problem and can now go to bed.