When the old lady heard Ye Chen say the three words "Rejuvenation Pill", she asked in horror: "My benefactor...you...you also know Rejuvenation Pill?!"

Ye Chen nodded and said calmly: "I know."

There is a saying that Ye Chen didn't say.

That is, when he came, he specially prepared a rejuvenation pill for Mrs. Jiang.

Old Mrs. Jiang couldn't help but exclaim: "You are indeed like Old Ancestor Meng, both of you have great powers!"

Ye Chen just smiled slightly, but his heart was even more shocked.

So far, although he has benefited a lot from the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra", he does not know who wrote the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra".

Now, when he learned that Meng Changsheng had already refined the Rejuvenation Pill more than a thousand years ago and presented the two Rejuvenation Pills to the ancestors of the Jiang family, he couldn't help but ask in his heart: "Can I get the "Nine Profound Heavenly Classic" written by Meng Changsheng? The antique that my father-in-law knocked over in the Jiqing Hall of the Song family that day was indeed a jade pot spring bottle from the Tang Dynasty, and Meng Changsheng was also a person from the Linde period of the Tang Dynasty. In this way, the general dynasty was consistent. In addition, the information related to Rejuvenation Pills learned from Grandma Jiang, this inference seems to be really possible..."

However, Ye Chen knew very well in his heart that it was impossible to conclude that the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra" was written by Meng Changsheng based on these two points.

If you really want to prove this matter, you have to find more clues.

So he temporarily put this question in his heart and asked Old Lady Jiang: "Grandma Jiang, how long did your ancestor live to die?"

The old lady said: "My ancestor died in 863 AD, in the fourth year of Xiantong, and lived to be 113 years old. Because the wife and children of the ancestor Meng were buried halfway up the mountain. So after my ancestor died, my ancestor was buried at the foot of the mountain, and our descendants of the Jiang family were also buried at the foot of the mountain."

Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "Old man lived 113 years old, and after minus the forty years of life of two rejuvenation pills, he lived to be 73 years old by himself. In that era, it was already very rare."

According to statistics from some unreliable scholars, the average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty was about 40 or even 50 years old.

However, their statistics and verification are very one-sided. They simply count the ages of those recorded when they die from the epitaphs that can be found and recorded history books, and then calculate the so-called average age.

But they ignored a big problem. Those who can leave their names in history books, those who can own a tombstone and someone carved an epitaph were themselves the elite class of that era.

Moreover, many young children who died and young people who had never married did not leave their tombstones after their death, let alone those common people who had buryed things with a roll of straw mat after their death.

Therefore, the average life expectancy of the elite class calculated by the elite class has no real meaning.

Verified history shows that the average lifespan of emperors in the Tang Dynasty was only about 44 years old. This was the most elite class of the Tang Dynasty that year, and it gathered the best means of living and production in the country. But even so, the average lifespan was only only 44 years old.

Many objective scholars believe that if the higher premature death rate of infants and young children and the average life expectancy of ordinary people are included, the real average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty should be around 30 years old.

In this way, the ancestors of the old lady's family lived to be 73 years old on their own, which was longer than any Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. This was already amazing.

At this time, Mrs. Jiang nodded and sighed: "There is a record in the genealogy that when my ancestor was 113 years old, he was not deaf, his eyes were not blurred, and his body was still strong. Everyone thought he could live to be 120 years old. But when he was 113 years old, one day after dinner, he sat in front of the charcoal fire to take a nap. Suddenly, he was very excited to say that Old Master Meng sent Baihe to pick him up, and after that, he passed away with a smile."

Ye Chen said: "It seems that your ancestor has a deep relationship with that ancestor Meng."

"Yes." The old lady said: "The ancestor left behind his ancestors' teachings during his lifetime. The Jiang family must not leave here for generations. They must always protect the tomb of the wife and children of the ancestor Meng. Because when the ancestor Meng separated from my ancestors, he told him that when he found the way to immortality, he would definitely come back to find my ancestors and give him some luck..."

Ye Chen whispered: "This Old Ancestor Meng has never appeared again since then?"

"No." The old lady shook her head and said, "The Jiang family has not left here for more than a thousand years, and has never seen the person in the painting appear here. Perhaps the ancestor Meng failed to find the way to immortality back then, and he might die on the threshold of two hundred years old..."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "It is not impossible. Although the Rejuvenation Pill is a magic pill, it cannot be superimposed on anyone. If you rely solely on the Rejuvenation Pill, you will not live for two hundred years. Even if you have spiritual energy, you will not be immortal. If you want to live forever, you still need other opportunities."

Even in the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra", there is no record of any method that can make people immortal. The fundamental of the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra" is more like a textbook on how to use spiritual energy, but how to make spiritual energy stronger, to a certain state of invincible and immortality in the world. There is no record in the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra".

Moreover, in the "Nine Profound Heavenly Classic", there is no way to make people live for more than two hundred years. Although there are a lot of records about high-grade spiritual pills in the "Nine Profound Heavenly Classic", some of which can even make people have the ability to be as good as gods, there is no such elixir that can make people live for three or five hundred years or even thousands of years after taking them.

Therefore, it is theoretically impossible for the ancestor Meng to be still alive for more than a thousand years, and his life may have stopped at a certain date.

Such people only practice in their lives. They may not be accompanied by their side when they die. They will ride in a cave in a deep mountain forest, and in the end they cannot escape the six words: dust returns to dust, soil returns to soil.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen asked the old lady again: "Grandma Jiang, your tribe members have not left here for so many years?"

The old lady thought about it and said, "The ancestral teachings of my ancestors are not to keep us inseparable. He hopes that we can stay here, but at the same time, we hope that we can know the world. Therefore, the Jiang family has always attached great importance to reading. When I was young, my father asked me to recognize words and read, and later sent me down the mountain to study. During this years, some descendants could not hold back and sneaked out, but most of them lived here..."

Ye Chen asked her: "Living here must be very hard, right?"

The old lady smiled and said, "In this deep mountain, except for being sick and difficult, eating and drinking is not a problem. Our tribe members have been living well in spring and summer, hunting in autumn and winter. Moreover, they are far away from war. For more than a thousand years, no one has ever been here, so we can ensure that the family inheritance has never been stopped."

Ye Chen asked again: "Are the others in this village all your tribe members?"

The old lady said: "There are very few people with the surname Jiang here now."

As she said that, she sighed: "For more than a thousand years, the population of the Jiang family has not been prosperous, especially the few males. In the early years, many female descendants wanted to get married. In order to avoid leaving here as much as possible, they could only find ways to recruit family members. There are more and more people in other surnames, and they are all strong laborers for men. Gradually, the Yangs are intensifying and the Yins are declining, and the Jiang family's voice gradually becomes smaller and smaller;"

"Many men who married into the family agreed to have their children with their daughter's surname Jiang, but when the baby was born, he repented again. They either had to take the man's surname or took the child away from here. There was no way. The Jiang family was a wife, and they couldn't twist their arms, so they gradually followed them;"

"A man with a foreign surname will give birth to a few children with a foreign surname. The children with a foreign surname will marry them again, or marry other people with a foreign surname. Over time, fewer and fewer people with a surname in Jiang will be compared. Although the people in this village will be related to the older generation, there are almost no one with a surname in Jiang, and only the two of us are left."
Chapter completed!