端的何如 What Exactly Is The Matter
行者喝道：「胡說！等我問師父，端的何如。」三藏道：「我半夜之間起來解手，不曾戴得帽子，想是風吹了。」行者道：「這還說得是。如今可走得路麼？」行者喝道：「胡说！等我问师父，端的何如。」三藏道：「我半夜之间起来解手，不曾戴得帽子，想是风吹了。」行者道：「这还说得是。如今可走得路么？」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim shouted at him, "Nonsense!
喝 is hè, to shout someone down — the drinking word is a different hē and a different word entirely.
Let me ask the master what exactly is the matter."
的 is dì in 端的, an old vernacular phrase meaning precisely what, the actual truth of it. It is the same character as the everyday possessive particle and it is a wholly different word — this chapter carries three of them.
Tripitaka said, "In the middle of the night I got up to relieve myself, and had not put a cap on. I suppose the wind got at me."
The patient's own theory, and by the standards of the medicine of the day a sound one: night air entering an uncovered head. 解手, to loosen the hands, is a polite evasion that is still the ordinary Chinese for going to the lavatory.
Pilgrim said, "That much sounds right.
The 得 here is the unstressed de joining the verb to its assessment — said in a way that is right.
Can you travel the road today?"
Another unstressed 得, this time in a can-you-manage-it construction: walk, and get the road walked.
Pilgrim shouts down the joke and asks the sensible question, and Tripitaka gives a sensible answer. Two people who have been travelling together for years, doing the ordinary business of illness.
Then Pilgrim asks whether they can move today, which is the question he has actually been holding since he woke. The scripture-quest has a schedule in his head, and the schedule is what he reaches for when he does not know what else to do.
The exchange sets up the chapter's real clock. Three days will pass. Six monks will die in them. And the reason the pilgrims are still in this building is that a middle-aged man got up in the night without a hat.