上樣的安排 Set Out the Upper Grade
行者道：「兄弟，說那裡話？你我在江湖上，那裡不賺幾兩銀子？把上樣的安排將來。」行者道：「兄弟，说那里话？你我在江湖上，那里不赚几两银子？把上样的安排将来。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said: "Brother, what a thing to say.
說那裡話 is what a thing to say, and the 那 in it is nǎ, the questioning one — where would such talk come from. It is a set phrase of friendly protest and it is still in use.
You and I on the road — where do we not make a few taels of silver?
Another 那 and another nǎ, this time carrying a rhetorical question that expects the answer nowhere. 江湖 is rivers and lakes, the standing name for the world outside settled society — the road, the travelling life, where wanderers and traders and outlaws all belong. It is one of the great words in Chinese and it has never gone out of use.
Set out the upper grade."
Eight characters, and the whole negotiation is thrown away. 將 is jiāng, here the one that carries a verb outward — bring it along, set it out.
After all that haggling he orders the most expensive thing on the list. The scene has worked steadily down towards the floor by the stove and Pilgrim reverses it in one sentence.
There are two reasons and the chapter offers both. Ordering cheap would undo the story of a hundred horses that he has spent the evening building. And he is paying in roof tile, so the price is the one number in the room that does not matter to him.
Bajie has been contradicted in public for wanting the thing Pilgrim will spend the next passage arranging anyway — a dark corner, nobody watching, and no lamps. The upper grade is about to be ordered without the singing girls.