快排素筵席 Lay Out the Plain Feast Quickly
行者且不言語，聽他說甚話。少時，綻破櫻桃，喜孜孜的叫道：「小的們，快排素筵席來，我與唐僧哥哥吃了成親。」行者且不言语，听他说甚话。少时，绽破樱桃，喜孜孜的叫道：「小的们，快排素筵席来，我与唐僧哥哥吃了成亲。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said nothing for the moment, but listened to what she would say.
Restraint, and it is worth noticing. Here 甚 is shén, the questioning what, rather than the shèn that means very. Pilgrim's whole method in this chapter is to wait and hear rather than strike.
In a little while she split her cherry lips and called out delightedly, "Little ones! Set out the plain feast at once — the Tang Monk my darling and I are to eat and be married."
The narrator reuses the poem's own image for her mouth, which is a neat piece of carpentry: she speaks through the cherry the verse has just given her. 喜孜孜 is a lively three-character word for beaming with pleasure, and 哥哥, elder brother, is being used as an endearment — the same word a wife might use of a husband.
The scene turns on a single change of vocabulary. The two water-carriers reported a wedding as a household errand; here the bride announces it herself, in the tone of somebody who has been looking forward to it. The comedy and the menace are in the same sentence.
The endearment is the detail to hold. Calling a man elder brother is ordinary affectionate address between a wife and husband, and she has decided on the relationship before the meal. Tripitaka is going to be addressed this way repeatedly, and every repetition tightens the trap.