Since this is the main road, please go home, woodcutter, and give my best respects to your honoured mother. We have imposed on a generous meal just now, and a poor monk has nothing much to thank you with — only that morning and evening I will recite the scriptures and pray that you and your mother may be at peace and have a hundred years of long life."

The last speech of the chapter, and it is a formal leave-taking done properly. 令堂 is the respectful term for somebody else's mother, answering the humble one the woodcutter used for his own. 無甚相謝 takes 甚 as shén, nothing-much, and 相 as xiāng, the mutual reading. And 長壽 takes 長 as cháng, length of time — the same phrase the fiends used when they planned to eat him for it, now offered as a blessing on a household.