Chapter 321 - Unprecedented! (1/2)

“Ha? What?”

“108 chapters?”

“That’s i!”

“Teacher Zhang won’t stop till he scares you to death!”

“Why does it have to be 108 chapters? Why is the number so precise?”

There was quite a stir fro University students’ expression and speech, they showed their distrust They could not believe nor accept it After all, the 120 chapters of ‘Dream of the Red Chaet that you said that the chapters after chapter 80 of ‘Dreareat You even denied the number 120?

The Redologist, Old Yang, immediately refuted, “Nonsense!”

Teacher Yang’s voice was very loud The venue quickly quieted down!

The students all looked to see who had spoken As the voice was output froh the microphone, they could not tell the source of the voice They could look around with their eyes Finally, they found the person who spoke Everyone looked towards the first rohere all the figures fro

“Who’s that?”

“There’s a recording How can you shout like that?!”

“That’s a Redologist, his surna I’ve previously seen his lecture materials”

“I also know this Teacher Yang He has been studying ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ all his life He’s pretty famous”

The Peking University students all knew that the literary world was beginning to dis Ye

Meng Dongguo also spoke He was one of the people who held aYe and said in an iy, one needs to talk about evidence Even though you provided a Qing dynasty poet’s poehtieth were all supple the note, even if that were the case, it only htieth” How did this nu the chapter titles of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’?”

Zhang Ye said calmly, “There are no records”

The Writers’ association’s Vice President Yan Yu said, “Then how do you know?”

Zhang Ye smiled and was not bothered by their refutes and doubts He said, “I previouslythem from a historical standpoint with inforinal text to analyze and explain Sometimes, the information can be a lie, or in various ways, indeter the book, ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’, so we need to study its contents That cannot be a lie It’s also the most irrefutable evidence Why do I dare say that ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ has 108 chapters instead of 120? The proof is in the book!”

He took out the information

This tie who helped Zhang Ye sort the docu Ye’s request, he would project it on screen

Everyone frowned upon seeing it

“What is that?

“Isn’t this the original text of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’?”

“What’s there to see? I’ve seen it numerous times!”

Zhang Ye leisurely pointed to the screen “This is the most authoritative 120 circulated chapter version of ‘Dream of the Red Chast you have already read it Soht have even read it eight or ten tiht have dissected it in various ways to research it Then ould I take this out today? The reason is to help everyone recall so This is because everyone has overlooked ireat secret hidden within ‘Drea to my research, I can tell everyone that Cao Xueqin’s ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ has an internal textual structure It is a book with a nine by twelve format!”

“Nine by twelve?”

“How can you tell?”

“Why have I never discovered such a rule?”

The students were surprised The people from the literary world looked unconvinced

Even Redologists, like Yan Yu and Teacher Yang, had never researched or proved this rule The people of this world didn’t even think of it This was because they had always believed the 120 chapters of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ were all written by Cao Xueqin Naturally, their thinking was restricted as a result It was not that this world’s people were not as intelligent as those fro Ye’s world, but rather it was due to certain objective factors

This conclusion was suggest by Mr Zhou Ruchang fro of the novel ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’” also mentioned it

Zhang Ye said to the audience, “Cao Xueqin’s ‘Dreaeneral, every nine chapters is one unit The book has a total of twelve, nine-chapter units ” With a slight pause, he continued, “I can tell many do not believe this Then shall we discuss this in depth? Yes, let’s look at the first 80 chapters of ‘Dreaether It can be clearly seen that the first chapter to the ninth chapter is a unit And the ninth to the eighteenth chapter is another unit Two tihteen Let’s first look at the first unit Does everyone rehteenth chapter is about? What is stated in the book? It writes about the I a visit to her family!”