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善聲盈耳 The Sound of Goodness Everywhere
自此時，一片善聲盈耳。行者卻才歡喜，對八戒、沙僧道：「你兩個好生護持師父，等老孫再與他去去來。」自此时，一片善声盈耳。行者却才欢喜，对八戒、沙僧道：「你两个好生护持师父，等老孙再与他去去来。」
逐句解 Line by line
自此時，一片善聲盈耳。
自此时，一片善声盈耳。
From that moment a single sound of goodness filled every ear.
盈耳, filling the ears, is an old and lovely phrase — the sound is not loud, it is everywhere. 一片 is the measure word for an expanse of something continuous, the way one speaks of a sheet of sound.
行者卻才歡喜，對八戒、沙僧道：「你兩個好生護持師父，等老孫再與他去去來。」
行者却才欢喜，对八戒、沙僧道：「你两个好生护持师父，等老孙再与他去去来。」
Only then was Pilgrim pleased. He said to Bajie and Sha Monk, "You two look after the master properly. Old Monkey will go up for him once more and come straight back."
卻才, only then, marks the exact point at which Pilgrim's mood turns. 去去來 is a casual reduplication — go and come, nip up and back. He is describing a second journey to heaven the way one describes stepping out for milk.
A whole prefecture praying at once, and the novel renders it as a texture rather than a noise: one sheet of sound filling every ear.
And that is the moment Pilgrim becomes cheerful. Not when the prefect knelt, not when he vowed, but when the sound reached the streets. He has understood something the Preceptors told him — that what moves heaven is not one man's contrition but a single thought of goodness, and that it apparently counts for more when ten thousand people are having it at once.