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滿心歡喜 Delighted Through and Through
那婦人滿心歡喜，即叫：「看好茶來，廚下快整治東西。」遂下樓去，忙叫：「宰雞宰鵝，煮醃下飯。」那妇人满心欢喜，即叫：「看好茶来，厨下快整治东西。」遂下楼去，忙叫：「宰鸡宰鹅，煮腌下饭。」
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那婦人滿心歡喜，即叫：「看好茶來，廚下快整治東西。」
那妇人满心欢喜，即叫：「看好茶来，厨下快整治东西。」
The woman was delighted through and through, and called at once: "Bring the good tea! Kitchen — get things ready, and be quick."
滿心歡喜 is a heart full of gladness, and it is still what Chinese says of somebody thoroughly pleased. She has just been told to serve the most expensive thing on her list to four men with a hundred horses.
遂下樓去，忙叫：「宰雞宰鵝，煮醃下飯。」
遂下楼去，忙叫：「宰鸡宰鹅，煮腌下饭。」
Then down she went, calling as she went: "Kill a chicken, kill a goose, boil some salted meat to go with the rice."
醃 is salted or pickled meat, laid down to keep — the standard store in any household. 下飯 is what goes down with the rice, so it means the dishes rather than the staple.
Her delight is entirely commercial and the novel is not sneering at it. She has landed the best order of her week and is running the kitchen at a shout.
The reader can already see the problem coming and the pilgrims cannot get a word in. Four Buddhist monks are sitting upstairs while their landlady sends for everything with blood in it.