待天將明 When Day Is About to Break
你將這衣服、頭巾、搭聯都收進去,待天將明,交付與我們起身。」那王小二真個把些衣物之類,盡情都搬進他屋裡去了。你将这衣服、头巾、搭联都收进去,待天将明,交付与我们起身。」那王小二真个把些衣物之类,尽情都搬进他屋里去了。
逐句解 Line by line
Take these clothes and headcloths and saddlebags of ours inside, and when day is about to break, hand them back so we can set out."
將 is jiāng in both its jobs in this line: first the one that puts an object before the verb, take these clothes, and then the one that means about to, as in day about to break. 搭聯 is a long double pouch slung over a shoulder or a saddle, the traveller's standard luggage.
And Wang the Second did indeed carry the whole lot of clothes and the rest into his own room.
盡情 here means the whole lot, every last thing — not the modern sense of doing something to the full. 真個 is really, sure enough, and it carries a faint note of the teller shaking his head.
This is the innkeeper being scrupulous and it could not be worse for Pilgrim. The clothes are now behind a door, in the room of a man who has just proved he takes security seriously.
Note that nobody in this chapter is doing anything wrong except the pilgrims. The merchants are careful, the innkeeper is honest, the arrangement is sensible. The obstacles from here to the end of the night are made entirely of other people behaving well.