The old lady looked at the old man in the portrait and murmured: "The ancestor was originally named Meng Sheng, and his courtesy name was Changming. He was born in the first year of Linde in the Tang Dynasty, which was 664 AD. Later, 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 our Jiang family."
"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 high school student in a high school 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 this place to practice. However, his wife
Soon after this, he passed away due to infection with wind and cold, and he was the only one who continued to practice;
"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 was like the painting, with a slight slightest
Not like an old man who is 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, combined with 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.
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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. Isn't it?
It happened 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, his parents and grandfathers originally lived in Chang'an, his
Grandpa and father were both imperial physicians in the court. They escaped before An Lushan occupied Chang'an and headed south all the way, but encountered rebels nearby. The rebels killed all the relatives of the ancestors. At the critical moment, it was Meng Zu who fought all the way.
The sword killed my ancestor and rescued my ancestor from the rebel sword. That year, my ancestor 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 ancestors were in the luggage they accompanied. It is said that there were at least three or five boxes, but at the critical moment, the father of our ancestor met Meng.
The ancestor killed all the way, and stuffed a family tree and two phoenix bone bracelets into the arms of our ancestors. Then the ancestor's father burned all the medical scriptures with tinder oil. Since then, the Jiang family's medical skills have been lost..."
Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "Countless classics. Even if it was lost in this turmoil, your ancestors of the Tang Dynasty knew what the phoenix bone vine was, but now, almost few people in the whole of China and even the whole world know this.
Things, 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 vine. 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 him.
The bracelet was made of phoenix bone vine, so he asked the ancestor if he was willing to give him one of the bracelets. In return, he was willing to accept his ancestor as his disciple. The ancestor was helpless at the time, so he naturally agreed without hesitation.
.And the ancestor Meng is 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 said with emotion: "It is said that those who are talented and master spiritual energy are hard to find one of millions of people. If they do not have this talent, they will not be able to enter the spiritual energy gate even if they practice hard for a lifetime.
Not to mention my ancestors, even the wife and children of Mr. 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 don't have that talent, so they followed the elder Meng to be the attendant, saying that they were the attendant, but in fact they looked more like the elder Meng.
The adopted son of the ancestor, Meng Zu kept him by his side and taught him to read and paint. These three paintings were all written 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-like man. He not only has great supernatural powers, knowledge, and exquisite paintings, but also has compassion. It's 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, and my ancestor was already seventy years old. That year, the ancestor Meng told my ancestor that if his cultivation level was too late to break through, or he could not refine it.
I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to live to two hundred years old, so I 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 to find the way of immortality and would come back to add to my ancestors.
Opportunity;"
"Although my ancestors were reluctant to part with each other, they knew that their relationship between master and servant 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 from here;"
"Three years after marriage, he returned here with his wife and children, hoping to stay here to guard the tombs of the wife and children of Meng, and also hoped to wait here until the return of Meng Zu. This was dozens of times
For 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 depends on it.
Take the pill 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 years old, and the other was given by the two when they parted. According to my family
The ancestors left by our ancestors said that these two elixirs are the most treasures in the world. Just take one to make people younger for twenty years. Therefore, when our ancestors entered the world, they were already seventy years old, but look at it.
He is only thirty years old when he gets up."
Ye Chen was shocked and blurted out: "Grandma Jiang, is the elixir that the ancestor Meng gave to your family's ancestors called the Rejuvenation Pill?"