Pilgrim came forward and shouted at him, "Blockhead! Whose ghost is showing itself? Is that not the master come back?"

In 喝了一聲, to give a shout, 喝 is hè, the shouting reading, and 甚麼 takes 甚 as shén. Wukong's method of breaking the news is to call his brother an idiot, which is the only register the two of them have.

Sha Monk raised his head and saw, and dropped hurriedly to his knees before him, saying, "Master, how much you have suffered!

擡頭, to raise the head — the character 擡 occurs once in this chapter and it is the one place where the plain-script table must carry the pairing by hand, since the two forms of this character are not paired automatically. Sha Monk's response to a resurrection is to kneel, and his first words are about somebody else's discomfort.

Brother, how ever did you manage to save him?"

怎生救得你來 takes 得 as de, marking whether the saving could be managed, with the object sitting inside the frame — the pattern the sealed chapters settle by way of a parallel construction about fighting somebody and not getting the better of them.

Pilgrim told over the whole of the foregoing business.

Ten characters, and the novel declines to repeat itself. 上項事 is the aforesaid matter, an account-book phrase. The reader has just watched all of it, so the narrator hands it over in one line and moves on.