Yan Yu turned silent. This…
Teacher Yang also pondered with a gloomy expression.
Senior Zhou raised his hands to ask, “Then why is it twelve?”
Zhang Ye laughed. “Why nine times twelve. Why would this constant twelve be used? Actually, it is very obvious. You can understand just from reading the first five chapters. Jia Baoyu dreams of entering the Land of Illusion, where it is led by the Fairy of Disenchantment to the Board of Ill-fated lives. There he secretly read the records. In the records, it recorded the fate of the women in Jinling. Then how were these pages split? I would like to know how many people were there on that list?”
Yao Cui immediately stood up. “There were twelve! Twelve Beauties of Jinling!”
“Yes.” Zhang Ye asked again, “Then what about the secondary records, and what was inside the secondary records?”
Senior Zhou exclaimed, “It was also twelve.”
Zhang Ye said, “Then the Fairy of Disenchantment entertained Jia Baoyu and got the fairies to sing songs. How many songs were there?”