五日一風 A Wind Every Fifth Day
老孫還教郡界中人家供養高真，遇時節醮謝。列位從此後，五日一風，十日一雨，還來拯救拯救。」眾神依言，各各轉部不題。老孙还教郡界中人家供养高真，遇时节醮谢。列位从此后，五日一风，十日一雨，还来拯救拯救。」众神依言，各各转部不题。
逐句解 Line by line
"Old Monkey will further see that the households within this prefecture make offerings to your exalted persons, and hold thanksgiving rites at the proper festivals.
供 is gòng, the offering sense — the ninth and last in the chapter. 醮 is the Daoist thanksgiving ritual, a technical term with a long liturgical history behind it. Pilgrim is committing the prefecture to a calendar.
"And your worships, from this time on — a wind every fifth day, a rain every tenth — come back and deliver them, deliver them."
五日一風 paired with 十日一雨 is a classical formula for the weather of a well-ordered age; it turns up in Han texts as the sign of a virtuous reign. Pilgrim is not inventing a schedule, he is quoting the ideal one.
The gods did as he said, and each returned to his department, of which no more need be said.
不題, no more of that, closes the thread. The storyteller uses it three times in this chapter to tie off a strand and move on.
Pilgrim negotiates a maintenance agreement. Offerings and festival rites from the prefecture; a wind every fifth day and a rain every tenth from the departments.
The formula he uses is a very old one, and it describes what the weather was supposed to do under a virtuous ruler. He is asking the gods to treat Fengxian as a place where things go properly — which is, in the end, exactly what the chapter has been about.
And he closes with the same doubled plea the prefect made in the street: deliver them, deliver them. The word has travelled from the man on his knees to the monkey speaking for him.