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細細打探 Bajie Is Sent To Scout
叫：「沙僧，我和你且在此，著八戒先下山凹裡打聽打聽，看那條路好走，端的可有洞府，再看是那裡開門，俱細細打探，我們好一齊去尋師父救他。」叫：「沙僧，我和你且在此，着八戒先下山凹里打听打听，看那条路好走，端的可有洞府，再看是那里开门，俱细细打探，我们好一齐去寻师父救他。」
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叫：「沙僧，我和你且在此，著八戒先下山凹裡打聽打聽，看那條路好走，端的可有洞府，再看是那裡開門，俱細細打探，我們好一齊去尋師父救他。」
叫：「沙僧，我和你且在此，着八戒先下山凹里打听打听，看那条路好走，端的可有洞府，再看是那里开门，俱细细打探，我们好一齐去寻师父救他。」
He called, "Sha Monk, you and I will stay here, and set Bajie to go down first into the fold of the mountain and listen about — see which road is good to walk, whether there really is a cave dwelling, and then see where the door opens; make careful enquiry into it all, so that we may go together to look for our master and rescue him."
著 is zhuó, the sending band. 的 is dì in the old vernacular phrase for what exactly — the third of three in this chapter, and a wholly different word from the possessive de written with the same character. 那 is nǎ, where.
Fifty-six characters of orders, and they are properly professional: find the road, confirm the cave exists, locate the entrance, report back, then go in together.
It is the most disciplined thing Pilgrim does in the chapter, and it comes directly out of last night's failure. He went alone, he was drawn off, and his master was taken. This time everybody moves together.
Sending Bajie to scout is also, of course, sending the least reliable member of the company to do the most delicate job, and he says so himself in the next passage.