(1) The first step should be to find out Gao E's life experience and prove whether he is related to Hubei through this adoptive father. It has been found that there is not much information about Gao E, and her date of birth is unknown, but judging from the date of her election and marriage, she is not bad, and she is qualified to be an adopted son of Hubei. Hubei is Manchu, decorated with white flags. It is a desert military flag, and some records call it "Li official residence yellow flag" or "desert military official residence yellow flag". Gao Ying claimed to be from Tieling in Preface to Zhu Yunhong's Poems. Of course, it is also possible that the adoptive father and the adopted son have different flags, and the adopted son does not have to follow the adoptive father's flag. Gao E wrote an inscription under "The Red River is Full" in Xiang Yan Ci, "The Mid-Autumn Festival was last May, and Ding Xianfu was worried." Xin Chou was in Qianlong forty-six years (178 1 year). I wonder if the "first husband" here refers to the biological father or the adoptive father? If this refers to the adoptive father, Ebie should have died in 178 1 year. Unfortunately, the real date of Ebie's death cannot be found in the literature to prove it. Suppose E was Gao E's adoptive father and died in 178 1 year. During the ten years from 178 1 year to 179 1 year, Gao E was solely responsible for the sequel of A Dream of Red Mansions.
(2) There are many plots in the last forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions that conform to the history of the Cao family, indicating that the sequel knows what happened to the Cao family (for a detailed discussion, see Red Yanzhai and A Dream of Red Mansions, published in the 2 nd, 3 rd and 4 th issues of Volume 20 of Mainland magazine). This is beneficial to Zhang Yonghai's rumors about the sequel of the last forty chapters. Hubei listened to Qin Xue's own story, and there were some fragments of Forty Chapters after Qin Xue as the first draft of the last forty chapters, which were revised by Gao E. Suppose the last forty chapters of this 120 page manuscript. Text) is the first draft of Hubei, and the "revised draft" was written by Gao E, which caused two more problems. The little question is, can an adopted son call his adoptive father by his own "word" or "number"? That is to say, Gao Shen E called himself "Uncle Lan" to his adoptive father and wrote "Uncle Lan has read" on the manuscript? The big question is why "Gaiwen" is different from Cheng Jiaben, but the same as Cheng Yiben. According to the truth, the process of revision should also be the first draft-Cheng Jia's draft-Cheng Yi's draft. There is only one possible explanation to avoid this contradiction. That is, before and after Hubei, there were two similar drafts of the last forty chapters. According to one of them, Gao E changed it into a replica of the family, and then printed it. At the same time, for some reason, Gao E revised it into Cheng Yi's manuscript according to the second draft. This is the last 40 chapters of the 120 manuscripts we saw today. Of course, this hypothesis has yet to be confirmed. According to my research on A Dream of Red Mansions for more than forty years, there is only one thing that can support this hypothesis. That is, the list of Jia Fu's property back to the 105th time is completely different in Cheng Jiaben and Cheng Yi Ben. This purchase list is of little significance, so there is no need to change it. Moreover, the types and quantities of the two items in the real estate purchase list are different, and the order is different. This is not like the result of change at all, but like two different lists. Are Cheng Jiaben and Cheng Yiben really revised according to two different drafts?
(3) Strangely, the last forty sentences of the "text" of this manuscript are also quite different from the plot of the second half of Qin Xue's original manuscript revealed in Zhi Pi (see Zhi Yanzhai and A Dream of Red Mansions). Many criticisms about the second half of the plot were written by Ding Hainian (1767), three or four years after Qin Xue's death. It can be seen that Qin Xue did not change the plot in the second half of his life. What he mentioned in Fat Batch is still the true face of Qin Xue's final draft. The final version of this latter part was copied only after the fair winter (1759) (see two fat comments about Redjade in the 27th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions written by Chen Geng). A fat batch was written in Ji Mao and a fat batch was written in Ding Hai. The so-called "copying everything in the prison temple" is actually a mistake of "copying everything in the prison temple". The prison temple is not a Jia temple, so you can't copy it with Jia Jiacai. Besides, even a temple, the government will not copy it. Judging from the critical tone of some Fei Yan, Fei Yan may have an incomplete second half of the manuscript, some of which were lost by the borrower. If the second half of this 120-page manuscript was revised by Gao E, it is obvious that they did not faithfully write according to Qin Xue's original intention, and most of them invented it themselves.
In a word, the above points are worthy of in-depth study, but the most important key lies in "changing the text" handwriting. If this manuscript was revised by Gao E, Gao E must do it himself and deal with it word for word. Then, the handwriting of "Gaiwen" must be Gao E's handwriting. Find out Gao E's other manuscripts and make them immediately. After comparison, experts found that the manuscript was not Gao E's handwriting, whether in the original text or in the revised text.