吐出核子 She Never Spat the Stone
三藏道：「娘子，新開園的果子愛吃，所以去得快了。」妖精道：「未曾吐出核子，他就攛下去了。」三藏道：「娘子意美情佳，喜吃之甚，所以不及吐核，就下去了。」三藏道：「娘子，新开园的果子爱吃，所以去得快了。」妖精道：「未曾吐出核子，他就撺下去了。」三藏道：「娘子意美情佳，喜吃之甚，所以不及吐核，就下去了。」
逐句解 Line by line
Tripitaka said, "Madam, one is fond of fruit from a garden newly opened, and so it went down quickly."
He lies smoothly and at once. In the phrase for going down quickly, 得 is de, the light syllable hooking the verb to the manner of it. The explanation is nonsense and she accepts it.
The fiend said, "He never even spat out the stone — it just shot down."
In 核子 the second character is zi, the light vernacular ending, not the literary zǐ — this is a fruit stone, an everyday object, and it takes the everyday reading. 攛 is to shoot or fling oneself, and it is a strong word to use of a peach.
Tripitaka said, "Madam, your feeling was fine and your mood good, and you enjoyed eating it so much that you had no time to spit the stone before it was down."
The second lie is better than the first because it flatters her. 意美情佳 — the intent beautiful, the feeling fine — is a piece of smooth four-character nonsense, and it works because she wants to believe the day is going well.
Tripitaka lies twice in a row, fluently, and improves the second lie by flattering the person he is lying to. The man who a few thousand characters ago petitioned heaven about whether a cup of wine was permissible has become good at this in the course of one afternoon.
Her second objection is the sharper one and she nearly gets there. She has noticed that a peach with a stone in it went down whole, and she is trying to work out how. It is the last piece of reasoning she does before the pain starts.
The narrator offers no judgement on the deception. Earlier in the chapter he stopped to defend Tripitaka at length for saying a single polite word under duress. Here he says nothing at all.