撮弄演戲 Singing Dancing and Playing All Day
一壁廂叫承應的歌舞吹彈，撮弄演戲。他師徒們並王父子盡樂一日。一壁厢叫承应的歌舞吹弹，撮弄演戏。他师徒们并王父子尽乐一日。
逐句解 Line by line
Off at one side he had the entertainers in attendance sing and dance, pipe and pluck, do tricks and act out plays.
承應 is the term for performers who serve on call at a court, and its second character is yìng, answering a summons, not the yīng of ought. 吹彈 is wind and strings — blowing and plucking — and 彈 is tán, to pluck, not the dàn that means a pellet or a bullet. 撮弄 is conjuring and sleight of hand, which is a nice thing to hire for a party attended by three people who can actually do it.
Master and disciples together with the prince and his sons took their pleasure the whole day long.
The scene ends in one clause with everybody in it. 師徒 and 王父子 — a master and his disciples, a prince and his sons — are set side by side as two families of the same shape, which is exactly what the next scene is going to make of them.
The chapter's tensest afternoon ends with conjurors and a play, and the two households sit through it together.
The last sentence pairs them deliberately: master and disciples, father and sons. Before the chapter ends the two groups will merge, with each disciple taking one prince, and the sentence is quietly laying the pattern out.