槽劄齊備 The Mangers and Posts in Order
我舍下院落寬闊,槽劄齊備,草料又有,憑你幾百匹馬都養得下。卻一件:我舍下在此開店多年,也有個賤名。我舍下院落宽阔,槽札齐备,草料又有,凭你几百匹马都养得下。却一件:我舍下在此开店多年,也有个贱名。
逐句解 Line by line
My yard is wide, the mangers and posts all in order, and there is fodder besides: several hundred horses could be kept here if you liked.
The sales pitch is entirely practical, which is why it works. 槽 is a feeding trough and 劄 is zhá, a driven post or stake — the two things a stable yard needs. That reading is not the one the character falls to by default; it is recorded in the old rime books, which gloss the sound by using the character as its own example. 得 reads de here, the shape that says a thing can be done — 養得下, they could be kept.
But one thing: my house has kept an inn here many years and has a poor name of its own.
賤名 is a worthless name, the humble way of introducing your own. It is the standard formula and she is about to use it to introduce a business she is clearly proud of.
She has answered a question nobody asked. Pilgrim never said the horses were coming here; she has heard a hundred head and started describing her yard.
The pitch is worth reading as a piece of commerce. Space, fittings, feed, capacity — four claims in one sentence, in the order a horse dealer would want them, from a woman who has done this before.