The old lady looked at the old man in the portrait and murmured: "The ancestor was originally named Meng Sheng, with his courtesy name Changming. He was from Chang'an. He was born in the first year of Linde in the Tang Dynasty, which was in 664 AD. Later, after he began to practice to seek immortality, he called himself the lay Buddhist Changsheng. He changed his name to Meng Changsheng. The ancestor Meng was the honorific title of his family for us."

"Meng Changsheng..." Ye Chen muttered, he had never heard of this name, but he was not surprised too much.

The painting itself looks very old, and the old lady's family has been passed down for 1,600 years. It is not so surprising that the person in this painting is an ancient Tang Dynasty.

At this time, the old lady said again: "Meng Laozu was a Jinshi when he was young and was an official in the court. However, because he accidentally got the opportunity to practice, he resigned from his official position and brought his wife and children to practice. However, his wife and children died of wind and cold soon after, and he was the only one who left to continue practicing;"

"Meng Zu practiced here for decades until the 14th year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, which was 755 AD. He left this place temporarily and went down the mountain to travel."

When Ye Chen heard this, he said in a little surprise: "In 755 AD, the ancestor Meng was already in his nineties at that time..."

"Yes." The old lady replied: "But according to the memories of my ancestors, when he met Mr. Meng in the fifteenth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, that is, in 756 AD, Mr. Meng looked like in the painting, not at all like an old man who was nearly a hundred years old."

Ye Chen looked at the painting again, and couldn't help but be amazed.

The old man in this painting is thin but strong in spirit. In that era, the average life expectancy is only over fifty years old, and the old man in his fifty years old should look older than the old man in his seventies or eighties today.

Therefore, the person in this painting looked like he was in his forties in his forties in the background of that era, which was comparable to the spiritual old man in his sixties now.

But when the other party was in his nineties, he still looked like this. This proves that the other party really mastered the spiritual energy!

Otherwise, even if he accidentally got one or two rejuvenation pills, combined with the background of the times, the average life expectancy would be difficult to live to such an old age.

Ye Chen remembered the old lady’s previous self-introduction, so he asked her: “Grandma Jiang, when we met in Mexico, you said that your ancestors practiced medicine for generations, and it was not until the Anshi Rebellion that the inheritance of medical skills was cut off. Did it happen when your ancestor met this ancestor Meng?”

"Yes." The old lady nodded and said, "In 756 AD, when the Anshi Rebellion was at the worst, An Lushan occupied Chang'an and started the first year of Shengwu. My ancestors and his parents and grandfathers originally lived in Chang'an. His grandfather and father were both imperial physicians in the court. They escaped before An Lushan occupied Chang'an and headed south. However, they encountered rebels nearby. The rebels killed all the relatives of the ancestors. At the critical moment, it was Mr. Meng who killed them with swords all the way, and rescued my ancestors from the rebel sword. That year, my ancestors had just turned six."

Ye Chen suddenly realized: "So your ancestor survived. But the medical skills of his ancestors were lost, right?"

"Yes." The old lady nodded slightly and said: "At that time, all the medical rituals passed down from the ancestors were in the luggage they accompanied. It is said that there were at least three or five boxes. But at the critical moment, when the ancestor's father saw that the ancestor Meng was killing all the way, he stuffed a family tree and two phoenix bone vine bracelets into the ancestor's arms. Then the ancestor's father burned all the medical rituals with tinder oil. Since then, the Jiang family's medical skills have been lost..."

Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "Countless classics. It was lost in this turmoil that your ancestors of the Tang Dynasty knew what the phoenix bone vine was. But now, almost few people in the whole country, even in the world, know that this kind of thing is. Our current traditional culture and Chinese medical skills are citing classics, but I don't know how many classics have long been buried in the long river of history..."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen suddenly remembered something and asked in surprise: "By the way, Grandma Jiang, do you think there are two bracelets?"

"Yes!" the old lady said confidently: "The two bracelets are made of phoenix bone vines. They were originally a pair, and they were the heirlooms of the Jiang family. After the ancestor was rescued by Meng Zu, Meng Zu recognized that the bracelet was made of phoenix bone vines, so she asked the ancestor if he was willing to give him one of the bracelets. In return, he was willing to accept the ancestor as a disciple. The ancestor was helpless at the time, so he naturally agreed without hesitation. And Meng Zu was indeed a gentleman. He only had one of the phoenix bone vines and let the ancestor keep the other one."

Ye Chen asked again: "Then did your ancestor learn spiritual energy from this ancestor Meng?"

"No." The old lady shook her head and sighed: "It is said that it is difficult for millions of people to find one of those who are talented and master spiritual energy. If you don't have this talent, you will not be able to enter the spiritual energy gate even if you practice hard for a lifetime. Not to mention my ancestors, even the wife and children of the ancestor Meng do not have this talent..."

As he said that, the old lady pointed to the children's reading painting on the wall and introduced: "My ancestors did not have that talent, so they followed the ancestor Meng to be a servant boy. They said they were servant boys, but in fact they were more like the adopted son of the ancestor Meng. The ancestor Meng raised him by his side and taught him to read and paint. These three paintings were all made by my ancestors when they were old, and the last one was his self-portrait when he was old."

Ye Chen sighed and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that this Old Master Meng is indeed a god. He not only has great powers, knowledge, and exquisite paintings, but also has compassion. It is really rare..."

"Yes." The old lady nodded slightly and then said: "My ancestor lived with Mr. Meng for more than 60 years until 820 AD, the fifteenth year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty..."

"Ancestor Meng was nearly 160 years old at that time, and my ancestor was already seventy-one. That year, the ancestor Meng told my ancestor that if his cultivation level was too late to break through or could not refine the elixir he wanted, it would be difficult to live to be two hundred years old, so he decided to find another more suitable cave to concentrate on seclusion;"

"When the master and servant parted, the ancestor Meng gave my ancestor some money and a pill to live in the world. He promised that my ancestors would come back and increase their chances when he found the way to live in the world;

"Although my ancestors were reluctant to part with each other, they knew that the relationship between the two masters and servants had ended. So after they said goodbye, my ancestors entered the world and married a woman to continue the incense in Jiangyang Mansion not far away from here;"

"Three years after the marriage, he returned here with his wife and children, hoping to stay here to guard the tombs for the wife and children of Meng, and also hoped to wait here until the return of Meng. This wait took dozens of generations, more than a thousand years..."

Ye Chen was a little confused and said, "Your ancestor and Mr. Meng were already 70 years old when they parted. They could go down the mountain to get married, or even continue the incense. This was really incredible in the environment that year. Could it be that Chengdu relied on the elixir given by Mr. Meng before leaving?"

"That's right." The old lady sighed: "Old ancestor Meng gave me two elixirs in total, one given by my ancestor when I was fifty, and the other was given by the two when they parted. According to the ancestral teachings left by my ancestors, these two elixirs are indeed the most treasures in the world. Just take one, it can make people twenty years younger. Therefore, although the ancestors were already seventy years old when they married, they looked only thirty years old."
Chapter completed!