仍送還他 We Will Send It Back
我卻饒了他,拿將扇來。待過了火焰山,仍送還他。」三藏聞言,感謝不盡。我却饶了他,拿将扇来。待过了火焰山,仍送还他。」三藏闻言,感谢不尽。
逐句解 Line by line
'So I let her go, and brought the fan away.'
拿將扇來 uses 將 as the vernacular verbal infix, on the pattern of 打將來 — not the disposal marker, though the reading is the same jiāng.
'Once we are past the Mountain of Flames, we shall send it back to her.'
還 is the verb huán, to return. The promise he made to her at the cave door is repeated to his master, and this time nobody is being persuaded of anything — which suggests he means it.
Tripitaka, hearing him out, thanked him without end.
感謝不盡 for the second time in the chapter, and it needs the same hand correction: the corpus-wide ruling raises 盡 to jìn after mechanical sandhi has already run against the base tone jǐn, so the 不 must be lifted to bú by fixspec.
我卻饒了他 — so I let her go. Nine graphs for the mercy, and the verb is the one she used when she begged. The promise that follows is the one he made at the cave: once past the mountain, the fan goes back.
He has no reason to say it here. There is nobody to persuade — the woman is fifty thousand li behind him and his master would not have thought to ask. That he repeats it to a room where it buys him nothing is the strongest evidence in the chapter that the 志誠有餘的君子 speech at the cave door was not purely tactical.
感謝不盡 — Tripitaka thanked him without end. The chapter's second use of the phrase, after Pilgrim used it of Lingji four blocks ago. The same formula passes from monkey to Bodhisattva and from monk to monkey, and in both cases the thanks are for a gift that has not yet been tested.