貪睡未醒 Still Asleep At Daybreak
一宵晚話不題。及天明了，行者起來，教八戒、沙僧收拾行囊、馬匹，卻請師父走路。此時長老還貪睡未醒。行者近前叫聲：「師父。」一宵晚话不题。及天明了，行者起来，教八戒、沙僧收拾行囊、马匹，却请师父走路。此时长老还贪睡未醒。行者近前叫声：「师父。」
逐句解 Line by line
Of the night's talk nothing more need be told.
A formula for skipping time — literally, the one night's evening talk is not raised. The storyteller is fast-forwarding, and saying so out loud.
When day broke, Pilgrim rose and told Bajie and Sha Monk to gather up the baggage and the horse, and went to ask the master to take the road.
教 is jiào, to make or have someone do a thing, not the jiāo of teaching a subject. 行囊 is the travel-pack; the character 行 is xíng, travelling, at every one of its seventy-nine appearances in this chapter.
At that hour the Elder was still deep in sleep and had not woken.
貪 is literally to be greedy for, and greedy for sleep is still the ordinary Chinese way to say sleeping in. The word carries a faint reproach that the narrator immediately withdraws.
Pilgrim went close and called out, "Master."
Eight characters, and the rhythm slows right down. The novel is about to spend three days on an illness, and it starts by making us wait through a single unanswered word.
The pacing here is worth watching. The previous passage closed on a night poem; this one opens with a formula that throws away the whole night in six characters. Then time abruptly stops.
Pilgrim's routine is entirely normal — wake up, load the horse, fetch the master. It is the master's failure to respond that breaks the pattern, and the novel lets that silence sit for a full line before anyone reacts.
One small thing that pays off: Pilgrim goes close before calling. He has noticed something is wrong before he has any evidence for it. This is the disciple whose eyes see through disguise, and here his instinct is working on his own teacher.