What is the meaning of "the fifth sentence of 36 sentences" in A Dream of Red Mansions?

The verdict of the fifth time should be sixteen, including the life stories of fifteen women in the original book, supplementary book and supplementary book of Twelve Women in Jinling, and the ending song of Birds in the Forest.

Personally, I like Birds best. I'll offer you:

For the official, the family business is dying, the family wealth is rich, the gold and silver are exhausted, and the kindness will be repaid, and it will be ruthless and clear. Those who owe their lives have returned their lives, and those who owe their tears have exhausted their tears. Revenge is not light, and it's all settled. If you want to know about past lives, you are really lucky to be rich when you are old. He who sees through escapes into an empty net, and he who is persistent loses his life in vain. Just like eating all the birds and throwing them into the forest, the land is so clean!

A Dream of Red Mansions is a masterpiece created by Cao Xueqin, a litterateur in Qing Dynasty. It is also called the classical Four Great Classical Novels of China with The Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.

A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of China's feudal society and a master of traditional culture. And also derived a unique discipline "Dream of Red Mansions", aiming at studying everything that appeared in A Dream of Red Mansions.

The last forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions were lost. What we see now is the sequel written by later generations. Comparing with the previous judgments, we will find that the ending of the last forty chapters is not the ending originally written by Cao Xueqin.

reference data

Cao Xueqin. Dream of Red Mansions. China: People's Literature Publishing House, 1996- 12.