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一陣風響 A Wind At The Second Watch
等到一更時分，不見動靜。二更時分，殘月才升，只聽見呼呼的一陣風響。等到一更时分，不见动静。二更时分，残月才升，只听见呼呼的一阵风响。
逐句解 Line by line
等到一更時分，不見動靜。
等到一更时分，不见动静。
He waited until the time of the first watch, and there was no sign of movement.
更 is gēng, the night watch, not the gèng of even more. The first watch runs roughly from seven to nine in the evening.
二更時分，殘月才升，只聽見呼呼的一陣風響。
二更时分，残月才升，只听见呼呼的一阵风响。
At the time of the second watch the waning moon had just risen, and he heard only a gust of wind come whistling.
更 is gēng again — the second watch, nine to eleven. 殘月, the waning moon, is late in its cycle and rises late, which is why the hall was dark when he arrived.
Two watches of waiting compressed into twenty-eight characters, and the tension is all in the first line: nothing happened.
The moon rising in the second line is quietly consistent with the previous passage, where it had not yet come up. The novel is keeping its own night in order.
A wind arriving is the standard signal in this book that something supernatural is coming. Every reader of the period would have known what the next passage would be.