赔： compensate, pay for
I can't really get '赔着笑脸' Maybe 'it cost him his smile to leave' i.e. he was sad to leave???
Or is there some other meaning in 赔？
八戒偷眼一看，那三个女儿美如天仙，不由得想入非非，赔着笑脸走了过去。
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“赔着笑脸”对呢还是“陪着笑脸”对呢– young99Jun 8, 2018 at 12:49
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陪笑脸 is in dictionaries:bkrs:[put up a smiling face in order to please another] 以笑脸对人, 使人息怒或使人高兴 他在和旁人接触时, 已经不自觉地习惯于一种陪笑脸的谦卑表情 péi xiào liǎn 对人装出笑脸。 西游记．第三十回：「只见那怪怒目攒眉，咬牙切齿。那公主还陪笑脸迎道：『郎君有何事这等烦恼？』」 亦作「赔笑脸」。 meet rudeness with a flattering smile– user6065Jun 8, 2018 at 12:54
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(1)compensate; indemnify
(2) apologize
賠笑 = smile apologetically
[赔着]笑脸 = [serve up] a smiling face (apologetically)
八戒 had naughty thoughts about the three girls. His subconscious guilty feeling was showing on his face with an apologetic smile
赔笑: literally, you "pay" your smile to sb. , implying 讨好， curry favor with sb, show your goodness and etc.
Well, 陪笑 is you just follow someone to smile and it doesn't have the connotation of being a suck-up.
