原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
不見了頭巾 I Have Lost My Headcloth
有的說：「我不見了頭巾。」有的說：「我不見了衣服。」行者只推不知，引著他們，往斜對門一家安歇。有的说：「我不见了头巾。」有的说：「我不见了衣服。」行者只推不知，引着他们，往斜对门一家安歇。
逐句解 Line by line
有的說：「我不見了頭巾。」
有的说：「我不见了头巾。」
One was saying: "I have lost my headcloth."
不見了 is has gone missing, literally is not seen any more — the everyday way of reporting a loss, and it stops short of saying stolen.
有的說：「我不見了衣服。」
有的说：「我不见了衣服。」
Another was saying: "I have lost my clothes."
The novel gives the two complaints identical shape and puts them on separate lines. Read aloud it is a room of voices, not two men.
行者只推不知，引著他們，往斜對門一家安歇。
行者只推不知，引着他们，往斜对门一家安歇。
Pilgrim simply pretended to know nothing, and led them off to lodge at a house diagonally opposite.
只推不知 is to push it away as not knowing — to plead ignorance. 著 is zhe, leading them along. The house he picks is across the street from the one he robbed.
The merchants who got out of bed to protect their things have lost them anyway, and the men wearing them are standing in the doorway listening.
Pilgrim's response is the smallest possible one: say nothing and cross the road. No spell, no fight, no cleverness. The novel is enjoying how thoroughly ordinary the crime and the escape both are.