急心疼了 Is It a Sudden Heart Pain
又見妖精倒在地上，面容改色，口裡哼哼的爬不動，連忙攙起，圍在一處道：「夫人，怎的不好？想是急心疼了？」妖精道：「不是，不是。又见妖精倒在地上，面容改色，口里哼哼的爬不动，连忙搀起，围在一处道：「夫人，怎的不好？想是急心疼了？」妖精道：「不是，不是。
逐句解 Line by line
They saw the fiend lying on the ground, the colour gone from her face, groaning and unable to crawl; so they hurried to help her up, gathered round her and said, "Madam, what is wrong?"
哼哼 is the doubled sound of groaning, and 面容改色 is the formal way of saying somebody has gone grey. The staff are competent and kind, and the scene is written as a domestic emergency.
"Is it a sudden pain in the heart?"
Six characters of ordinary diagnosis. 急心疼 is a colic or a sudden griping pain — what you would guess if your mistress collapsed clutching herself, and the wrong answer by a considerable margin.
The fiend said, "It is not, it is not."
Seven characters. She has to correct them before she can explain, and the doubling is the sound of someone in too much pain to be patient.
The staff's guess is the funniest line in the passage precisely because it is so reasonable. A woman is on the ground with her hands at her middle; they suggest colic. Nothing about the true answer is available to them.
The scene is also the third time this chapter has made the fiend's household ordinary and competent. They fetched water, they cleared broken crockery, they made themselves scarce out of tact, and now they crowd round with medical advice.