With a smile, Zhang Ye said, “Alright then. Next, I’ll be talking about…”
“Hold on.” Redologist Teacher Yang from the first row finally spoke up. He had been holding it in from the beginning, so he could not remain silent any further. Because it would appear that they, as a bunch of seniors and experts, had been dumbfounded by a junior. They would be greatly ashamed if that was the case. Hence, even though Teacher Yang did not study the structural problems of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ in the past, he had to use his own methods to refute. By avoiding the structure, he switched to another method. He lifted the microphone to his mouth while sitting down. “I cannot readily subscribe to your so-called nine times twelve structure of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’. The structural divisions you mentioned might be a coincidence, and might not be able to prove that the chapters after the eightieth were not written by Cao Xueqin. The Redology world has already decided that Mr Cao Xueqin made mistakes while writing his book due to his illness in old age or other similar reasons. This is also the reason behind Jia Baoyu’s change in personality.”
Zhang Ye smiled and said, “How the Redology world studied it and came to such a conclusion, I have no idea, nor do I agree. My point of view is actually opposite from all of you. Mr Cao Xueqin was completely fine. The logical errors in the book were not a result of him being sick. The 108 chapters of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ also existed. Cao Xueqin had whole finished writing it on the whole. This can be seen from Fucha Mingyi’s poem I mentioned in class yesterday.”