Chapter 335: This Semester’s Last Class!
Chapter 335: This Semester’s Last Class!
One day.
Three days.
Five days.
In a few days time, Zhang Ye held his lessons as usual. The students got more and more addicted listening to him. Zhang Ye also became more and more excited about lecturing. Every time, only after someone reminded him that he had exceeded the class’ given time would he stop the class.
These few days, with strong urging from the students, Peking University had approved another of Zhang Ye’s lectures to be held as a public lecture. What was different this time was that it would be held at night instead to avoid affecting other classes. The grand auditorium could not always be reserved for Zhang Ye, there were still other teachers who used it as well as activities held in it. Zhang Ye couldn’t get reservation slots, so he just held the lectures at the 1200 seater auditorium. The night time public lectures were always full, even if you were early to class, you might not be able to get a seat, let alone if you were late for class.
You might have heard of queuing up to buy groceries.
You might have heard of queuing up to buy property.
But you definitely have never heard of queuing up to attend classes!
When other institutes of higher learning heard this, they were speechless. If anyone told them that this situation would happen for an elective class, the people from Peking University would never believe it, ever, but all of this was now happening right before their eyes! Zhang Ye had done it, no one could be unconvinced by it!
Today was Zhang Ye’s last lesson.
In the auditorium, there were especially many people. A lot of the students were packed into the auditorium as even some seats were shared by two people.
Of course, what was more worthy to note was the seats at the side of the auditorium. There were many unfamiliar older faces. There were men and women, of at least 30 years old. Before the class started, Zhang Ye had heard Chang Kaige mention that some of these people were Redologists or from the community. Some of them were also from other institutes of higher learning or the education system. They had all applied to attend this last lecture beforehand. Some of them might have been hoping to find mistakes to pick on, while others were here with the hope of learning more.
On stage.
Zhang Ye spoke seriously, "The title of the 108th chapter might have been called ‘The Divine Luminescent understands the meaning of letting go at a precipice, the stone returns, with a listing revealed’. Why do I say so? Because when the beggar couple encounters the large snowstorm at the end, there was no way for them to survive in the open. They might have gone into the wilderness and discovered a farmhouse. They wished the farmhouse would open the door to provide them with some warmth, and they eventually discovered that the master and mistress of the farmhouse were very kind to them…"
The lectures of these past few days had already left everyone unable to speak.
Senior Song, Senior Zhou, and some others who were usually very active no longer questioned anything.
Outsiders who came to listen into the class did not manage to interject a single word. Even those who came to cause trouble could not keep up with Zhang Ye’s pace. They were completely brought into a new realm of knowledge that they did not understand — Vestige Forensics. All they could do was listen to it in a daze!
Beforehand, no one had expected Zhang Ye’s research to be so detailed.
From the 81st to the 108th chapter, Zhang Ye had logically guessed the chapter titles of each of them. He presented to them what he thought would have been the original plot of the story in such detail that he even included all the plot foreshadowing from the first 80 chapters!
It was too amazing!
It was really too awesome!
Just what sort of knowledge capacity did he have?
Throughout the course of this lecture, it had left many people believing more and more that someone else had continued the writing after the first 80 chapters. They felt that Zhang Ye’s analysis of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ was the original plot development of the novel instead! According to the plot described by Zhang Ye, it was a more logical and suitable ending! Many of the logical errors that had left the Redology world frustrated were solved perfectly by the way Zhang Ye spoke about it!