命出俟候 Sent Back Out
行者見了，忍不住厲聲高叫道：「菩薩，弟子孫悟空志心朝禮。」菩薩教：「外面俟候。」行者叩頭道：「菩薩，我師父有難，特來拜問通天河妖怪根源。」菩薩道：「你且出去，待我出來。」行者见了，忍不住厉声高叫道：「菩萨，弟子孙悟空志心朝礼。」菩萨教：「外面俟候。」行者叩头道：「菩萨，我师父有难，特来拜问通天河妖怪根源。」菩萨道：「你且出去，待我出来。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim, seeing this, could not hold back but cried out in a sharp voice: "Bodhisattva, your disciple Sun Wukong pays reverence with a whole heart."
見了 了 the aspect particle le; 弟子 子 zǐ, the honorific person-noun; 志心朝禮: 朝 read cháo, "to pay court, to reverence." Wukong announces himself formally, as if to recall the goddess to her dignity.
The Bodhisattva said: "Wait outside."
教 jiào, causative "bade." Two characters, and she does not look up from her weaving — the composure against which Wukong's urgency breaks.
Pilgrim knocked his head and said: "Bodhisattva, my master is in peril. I have come on purpose to ask the source of the fiend in the River That Reaches to Heaven."
有難: 難 nàn, the noun "peril, calamity." 拜問, to ask reverently; 根源, the source or origin — the genealogical question Wukong set out to put.
The Bodhisattva said: "Go on out, and wait while I come."
你且出去，待我出來 — she repeats the dismissal almost word for word, and will not be hurried. The block's whole tension is between his haste and her deliberateness.
The block is a study in the collision of two tempers. Wukong bursts in with a full formal salutation — 弟子孫悟空志心朝禮 — as if the ceremony might restore the scene to order; the Bodhisattva answers with two characters, 外面俟候, wait outside, and does not raise her eyes from the bamboo. His master is drowning under a river, and his urgency is real; her calm is not indifference but a different order of time, in which the basket she is weaving is already the answer and the weaving cannot be rushed.
Nothing is explained. She does not tell him what the basket is for, does not acknowledge the peril he names, does not interrupt her work. The refusal to perform her office on demand — to don her robes, mount her dais, and receive his petition in form — is of a piece with the undress of the preceding verse: the rescue will come from the homely labour, not from the divine ceremony, and Guanyin will not pretend otherwise for the sake of Wukong's nerves. He is sent back out to wait, and the chapter holds him there while she finishes.