Teacher Yang was waiting for him to say that. With a chuckle, he retorted, “Alright then. Since you say so, then I want to ask this. You said that only the first 80 chapters of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ presently circulated was written by Cao Xueqin, and Mr Cao did not make low-level mistakes because of physiological problems. Alright then, let’s follow this line of thought and only talk about the first 80 chapters. You previously mentioned that you could explain them all?”
Zhang Ye said surely, “Of course.”
Another young Redologist said, “Are you sure?”
“Hur Hur, I’m very sure. You can go ahead and ask.” Zhang Ye did not mind as he said, “But I need to make it clear first that it’s the first 80 chapters on the whole, and not the first 80 chapters.”
Teacher Yang snorted and said, “Alright, then how do you explain the time of death of Lin Ruhai?”
A young Redologist also added fuel to fire by saying, “I also want to ask. Qin Keqing died from an illness contradicting the Registers. How do you explain that?”
Zhang Ye did not answer and instead said, “Are there anymore questions? I can talk about all of them together.”
Yan Yu, who held an esteemed status in the literary world, also spoke. “Grandmother Jia’s birthday problem, as well as the problem of Jia Baoyu’s age.”
A bunch of questions were thrown at him!
These were all the problems that the Redology world could not explain to date!
Fine, didn’t you boast saying you can explain everything? Then explain it to us!
At this moment, the people from the literary world launched their first attack on Zhang Ye. Initially, due to the structural problems, they could not find an opportunity to attack Zhang Ye, because Zhang Ye had caught them by surprise. He had explained the structural divisions perfectly, and could be said to be incisive. It had once again caused a major breakthrough in Redology. Hence, they could not find an excuse to attack him, but now, Zhang Ye was too overbearing. He dared to say that he could explain all logical problems. As such, the people from the literary world could now speak!
There were about seven or eight questions, all with major logical errors. And it was those dead-end problems. There were no solutions after many years of study. They wanted to see what Zhang Ye had to say!
The Peking University students also began to stir.
“Things are going bad!”
“That bunch of Redologists have attacked!”
“Can Teacher Zhang explain it? That’s impossible!”
“Only by going head-to-head would it be interesting!”
“Will Teacher Zhang Ye make it?”
Some students were very excited and waited to watch the bustle. Yao Mi and other students were all downcast. They looked at Zhang Ye with worried expressions. As for Senior Zhou, who always asked questions and tried to refute Zhang Ye, he also began to worry for Zhang Ye. Truthfully, Senior Zhou was still doubtful of Zhang Ye’s point, but ultimately, this was a matter of their class. It was an exchange between teacher and students. It was a literary debate happening with Peking University, and that bunch of people from the literary world were outsiders. They were here to “cause trouble”, so be it Senior Zhou or Zhang Ye, they were all from Peking University. As such, they had a feeling of uniting against a foreign attacker.
Zhang Ye looked at them. “Is that all?”
Professor Ma Hengyuan sneered, “First answer those questions.”
Zhang Ye nodded. “Alright, then I’ll answer them. However, I’ll put aside Vice President Yan’s question for the moment. I’ll first answer the first few questions.”
Yan Yu glanced at him.
Teacher Yang said, “Alright, we’ll listen to what you have to say.”
No one believed that Zhang Ye could explain it!
They did not know that Zhang Ye had long anticipated their questions. After all, research in Redology was limited in its ways. There were only a few logical errors, so they couldn’t ask anything new. It was easy to guess. “Everyone, please take a look at the screen. Take a look at the information I provided first.” Zhang Ye and the Peking University staff had a short exchange before the other party immediately found the document, and projected it on screen.
The second daughter?