Tripitaka dismounted: "Disciples, let's enter court here and get our rescript exchanged, so we won't have to trouble that yamen again and put ourselves to expense."

進朝: 朝 = cháo ("court, audience"). 倒換關文: 倒 = dào ("to exchange"); the travel-rescript re-stamped. 省得: 得 = de. Deictic 那個衙門: 那 = nà.

Pilgrim said: "Well reasoned.

說得有理: complement 得 = de ("reasonably put").

Let us brothers all go in — with more of us, it's easier to do the talking."

都進去: 都 = dōu. 人多才好說話 = "with more people it's easier to speak."

The Tang Monk said: "All go in, but no coarse manners — first perform the rites of ruler and subject, and then speak."

都進去: 都 = dōu. 撒村 = "to be crude, boorish." 君臣禮 = the ruler-and-subject courtesies.

Pilgrim said: "To perform the rites of ruler and subject means bowing down."

行君臣禮: 行 = xíng ("to perform"), which pypinyin here mis-defaults héng. 下拜 = "to prostrate."

Tripitaka said: "Just so — one must perform the great rite of five prostrations and three kowtows."

三藏: 藏 = zàng. 要行五拜三叩頭: 行 = xíng.

Pilgrim laughed: "Master, that won't do.

不濟 = "no good, of no use."

If we perform the rite to him, it would truly be unwise.

誠為不智: 為 = wéi ("would be"). 行禮: 行 = xíng.

Just let me walk in front first, and I'll manage it my own way.

自有處置: 處 = chǔ ("to deal with, arrange"), the verbal reading.

If he has anything to say, let me answer.

等他若有言語 = "if he has words to say." 對答 = "to reply."

If I bow, you bow;

我若拜，你們也拜 — Wukong choreographing the whole party to his lead.

if I squat, you squat."

我若蹲，你們也蹲 — a comic undercutting of the solemn court-rite.

Look at that trouble-making Monkey King: he led them to the court gate and said to the gate-usher: "We are sent from the court of Great Tang in the Eastern Land, going up to the Western Heaven to worship the Buddha and seek scriptures.

Deictic 那惹禍的猴王: 那 = nà. 差來: 差 = chāi ("dispatched"). 拜佛: 佛 = fó.

Now we've come here to exchange our rescript; trouble you, sir, to pass word on — this is called not spoiling a good outcome."

倒換關文: 倒 = dào. 轉達 = "to relay"; 是謂不誤善果 = "this is what is meant by not marring the good result."

That yellow-gate officer entered the端-gate, knelt at the vermilion terrace, and reported: "Beyond the court gate are five monks who say they are imperial envoys of the Tang state in the Eastern Land, going up to the West to worship the Buddha and seek scriptures; now they've come here to exchange their rescript, and dare not enter unbidden — they wait outside the gate for the summons."

Deictic 那黃門官: 那 = nà. 欽差: 差 = chāi. 倒換: 倒 = dào. 丹墀 = the vermilion palace terrace.

That demon-king at once ordered them summoned in.

Deictic 那魔王: 那 = nà. 即令傳宣 = "at once had them called in."