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 frankly: "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 Master 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 two Rejuvenation Pills to the ancestors of the Jiang family, he couldn't help but ask himself in his heart: "Maybe I got it
"Nine Profound Heavenly Classics" was written by Meng Changsheng? The antique that his father-in-law knocked over in Jiqingtang 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 is consistent. In addition, the information related to the Rejuvenation Pill 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 again: "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 in the back mountain. So my ancestor was buried after his death.
At the foot of the back mountain, our descendants of our Jiang family were also buried at the foot of the mountain."
Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "Lao Xian lived 113 years old, and minus the forty-year 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 prematurely 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.
The 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
Just forty-four 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 very 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 100.
Twenty 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 and said that Mr. Meng sent Baihe to pick him up. After that, he smiled.
Died."
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' ancestral 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 to wait
If you find the way to immortality yourself, you will 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, at the threshold of two hundred years old
Even if the immortal passes away, maybe…”
Ye Chen nodded and said, "It is not impossible. Although the Rejuvenation Pill is a magic pill, it cannot be superimposed on anyone. Only relying on the Rejuvenation Pill, you will live less than two hundred years old. Even if you have spiritual energy, it will not be immortal.
If you don’t grow old, you still need other opportunities to live.”
Even in the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra", there is no record of any method that can make people immortal. The fundamentals of the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra" are more like a textbook on how to use spiritual energy, but how to make spiritual energy stronger
, powerful enough to a certain state of invincibility and immortality in the world. There is no record in the "Nine Profound Heavenly Sutra".
Moreover, there is no way to live for more than two hundred years in the "Nine Profound Heavenly Classic". Although there are a lot of records about high-grade spiritual pills, some of which can even be possessed by people.
It is nearly as capable as a god, but it does not have the kind of elixir that makes people live for three or five hundred years or even thousands of years after taking it.
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 for their entire lives. They may not be accompanied by their side when they die. They will ride in a cave in a deep mountain and forest. In the end, they can't escape the six words: dust returns to dust, soil
Return to the land.
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 in a row. 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 it.
When I was young, my father asked me to recognize words and read, and later I also sent me down the mountain to study and went to middle school. During the years, some descendants could not hold back and sneaked out, but most of them lived there.
this……"
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 are not a problem. Our people have been living well in spring and summer farming, autumn and winter hunting. Moreover, they are far away from war, for more than a thousand years, no matter how they are.
No one has ever been here, so we can ensure that the family inheritance has never been interrupted."
Ye Chen asked again: "Are the others in this village all your tribe members?"
The old lady said: "There are very few people named 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 number of males is very small. In the early years, many female descendants wanted to get married, in order not to leave here as much as possible.
, I can only find ways to recruit a husband. There are more and more people from other families, and they are all strong laborers for men. Gradually, the yang is growing and the yin is declining, and the Jiang family's voice gradually becomes smaller and smaller; "
"Many men who have married into the family agreed to have their children born with their daughter's surname Jiang, but when the baby is born, he regrets it again. Either they must take the man's surname or take the child away from here. There is no way.
The Jiang family is a woman, and her arms can't twist her thighs, so gradually they will go with them;
"A man with a foreign surname came, and gave birth to a few children with a foreign surname. The children with a foreign surname were married again, or married to other people with a foreign surname. Over time, fewer and fewer surnamed Jiang were born, although the people in this village went
The older generation is always related to their relatives, but the surname Jiang is almost gone, and only the two of us are left."
Ye Chen nodded and asked again: "Does the person from other surnames know about these things about Old Master Meng?"