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只尋客人 They Only Wanted the Guests
諕得那趙寡婦娘女們戰戰兢兢的關了房門，盡他外邊收拾。原來那賊不要店中家火，只尋客人。諕得那赵寡妇娘女们战战兢兢的关了房门，尽他外边收拾。原来那贼不要店中家火，只寻客人。
逐句解 Line by line
諕得那趙寡婦娘女們戰戰兢兢的關了房門，盡他外邊收拾。
諕得那赵寡妇娘女们战战兢兢的关了房门，尽他外边收拾。
Widow Zhao and her women were so frightened that they shut the door of their room, trembling, and let the men do as they liked outside.
諕 is xià, to frighten — a variant of the character modern Chinese writes with the mouth radical — and 得 after it takes de, the reading that links a cause to the state it produced. 盡他 is to let them do as they please, to leave them to it.
原來那賊不要店中家火，只尋客人。
原来那贼不要店中家火，只寻客人。
As it turned out, the thieves did not want the inn's own goods. They were after the guests.
家火 is household gear, the same word the widow used when Pilgrim asked about the noise downstairs. 只尋 is only looking for.
The three women are locked in a room listening to their house being robbed, and the novel gives them one sentence. It is enough — the trembling and the shut door are all the characterisation that fits.
And the thieves walk past everything she owns. They know what they came for because one of their own was standing in the room when Pilgrim named the sum.