Happy Little Jumping Frog: I found the notes left by Professor Chen Junqiu of Southwest Associated University in Kunming, Yunnan Province. He copied a manuscript of the last forty chapters of "Dream of the Red Chamber", which he obtained from a bookseller in Beijing. The bookseller's manuscript had been destroyed by the war during the Sino-Japanese War, and this excerpt was the last one. Chen Junqiu studied for a long time, and originally wanted to publish the research results to the academic community, but unfortunately he died of tuberculosis. Now the manuscript is with me.

Hongxue Baicheng: Mr. Han, I was really surprised by your discovery. However, I need to look at the manuscript and study it carefully to determine whether it is the real Red Mansion after forty times.

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Happy little jumping frog: I'll fly back to Jiangcheng tomorrow. When the time comes, I will send the manuscript to you for study.

Hongxue Baicheng: Okay, I'm in the smooth building, waiting for Mr. Han's arrival.

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The next day, Han Zhou took a Sichuan Airlines plane and returned to Jiangcheng.

Sichuan Airlines, formerly known as Sichuan Airlines, was established on September 19, 1986 and officially commenced operations on July 14, 1988. Since its establishment, Sichuan Airlines has been flying safely for 32 years and has been profitable for 12 consecutive years. Headquartered at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Sichuan, Sichuan Airlines is the largest airline in China's all-Airbus fleet.

Sichuan Airlines' specialty is Sichuan-style in-flight meals.

There are Sichuan specialties such as dan dan noodles and sauerkraut fish.

Hot sauce as standard. Flight attendants often ask passengers if they need hot sauce.

It is very Sichuan-specific.

Han Zhou ate Sichuan-style skewers on the plane, which was delicious and satisfying.

Came to Jiangcheng.

Non-stop, came to the Fudan Smooth Building.

The Smooth Building, a landmark building of Fudan University, was built in 2005 on the occasion of the centennial celebration of Fudan University. It is the tallest building in Asia and the third tallest in the world.

The main building of Guanghua Building consists of the east and west towers respectively. The west building is dominated by literature, history and philosophy, and the east building is occupied by the science and science colleges such as mathematics, which includes classrooms, scientific research bases, office areas, as well as student squares and teachers' salons and other teacher-student exchange venues, which greatly improves the teaching and scientific research conditions.

Each resident professor has a separate office, each with an office area of about 20 square meters. The two floors are connected by 15 floors, which are used for reading rooms and reference rooms, and the symmetrical podium is used for various types of classrooms and lecture halls. The building is equipped with modern facilities and adopts intelligent management, which improves the quality of teaching and scientific research services.

Next to the two main buildings are auxiliary buildings. To the east is the East Auxiliary Building, and to the west is the Daughter-in-law Building.

The main building is 30 floors high, and because it is very high, after the end of each term, students (student) who did not do well in the exam (or pretended to do badly) will forward pretentious words such as "Fudan Smooth Building, Leap to Solve a Thousand Sorrows". It became a fad.

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Han Zhou was received by Baicheng and took the elevator to the west main building, the twenty-second floor.

Come to the White City office.

The two sat down.

Bai Cheng said: "Mr. Han, I am glad to meet." Because I wanted to view important cultural relics and was worried that the tea would pollute the manuscript, I didn't make tea with you. There is specially bought Evian mineral water, which is covered, and you will drink it with you, and remember to close it tightly when you drink it. I'm really sorry if the hospitality is not good. ”

Evian is a very expensive mineral water produced in France. Produced in the French Alps, it has been filtered through glacial rock formations for at least 15 years, and contains a variety of minerals.

Han Zhou nodded: "I can understand." I don't care about these false courtesies. Mr. Bai, let's read the manuscript first. ”

Han Zhou took out the notes left by Zhang Junqiu and handed them to Bai Cheng.

Bai Cheng put on his white gloves and began to look through the clean and tidy table.

I read a few pages for ten minutes.

Bai Cheng said: "Mr. Han, you have been waiting for a long time. After a few minutes of review, I can conclude that even if it is not the real manuscript of the last forty chapters, it must be a very precious and valuable version of the Dream of Red Mansions. ”

Bai Cheng explained that the original manuscript of Dream of Red Mansions has been scattered for a long time, and many booksellers have printed many versions of manuscripts since Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, many of which have the last 40 manuscripts, but they are mixed, some of which are true and some are fake, and it is difficult to distinguish them when they are mixed together. However, it is still of great research value, because some of the real manuscripts of the last forty are mixed in.

And the manuscript provided by Han Zhou, now only a rough look, it cannot be concluded that it is the original manuscript of the Red Mansion. A scientific and rigorous research process is required.

But based on Bai Cheng's many years of experience in studying the Red Chamber, he could at least judge that this manuscript had high literary value, and it was not a fake manuscript forged by idle. It is also the research manuscript of Chen Junqiu, a professor of Southwest Associated University, which must have high research value.

Han Zhou nodded: "I see." Mr. Bai, let's use professional tools to take pictures of the manuscript, and then send it to red researchers across the country, and everyone will study and judge it together. ”

Bai Cheng said: "What about the original manuscript?"

Han Zhou said: "The original manuscript is very precious, and I keep and protect it myself. To study the content of the text, it is enough to just read the shadow of the book. If you really need the manuscript during the research process, you can borrow it from me. ”

The red-level treasures, Han Zhou still wanted to keep them and protect them in case of theft or other unforeseen problems.

Wealth touches people's hearts.

It is also a private museum for future preparations, leaving a treasure of the town museum.

Bai Cheng said: "Understood." Let's go photocopy. ”

The two found a professional camera studio and used technology that did not damage the manuscript in any way to capture the clear picture of each page of the notes.

Han Zhou kept one copy, and Bai Cheng kept one copy.

Bai Cheng sent the book shadow to the mailbox of the industry's well-known red scholars and researchers. The explanation of the situation was discovered by the famous explorer Han Zhou, and it is suspected that the notes of Chen Junqiu, a former professor of Southwest Associated University, recorded the forty manuscripts after the Red Mansion.

Han Zhou also posted the book shadow on Douyin and Toutiao.

It immediately attracted a lot of attention.

On the headlines, there are many folk researchers and enthusiasts of Red Mansions.

When I saw the content posted by Han Zhou, I was shocked and surprised.

One by one, I read them.

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After a few more days, some people gradually worked out some details that confirmed the value of the manuscript.

A big discussion began online.

A headline post of "Han Zhou's discovery of "Dream of Red Mansions" after 40 times, is it true or false?", which has attracted widespread attention and discussion.

The author's screen name is "Dream of Red Mansions".

His central argument is that the manuscript of the Han Zhou version should be genuine. Even if it's not true, in terms of literary value, it is much more clever than the Gao Yi version of its peers.

Whether it is the writing, poetry, or the words of the characters, the final fate, etc., they are all highly consistent with the judgments and styles of the first 80 chapters, and even sublimated.

Only the last forty rounds are worthy of the first eighty rounds.

As soon as such remarks came out, there were those who agreed with it and those who refuted it. Public opinion fermented for several days, and finally caused an uproar.