When the old lady heard Ye Chen say the words "Rejuvenating Pill", she asked with a look of shock: "My dear friend...you...you also know about the Rejuvenating Pill?!"
Ye Chen nodded and said calmly: "I know."
There was something that Ye Chen didn't say.
That is, in fact, when he came, he specially prepared a rejuvenation pill for Mrs. Jiang.
Mrs. Jiang couldn't help but admired: "You are indeed the same as Patriarch Meng, a person with great supernatural powers!"
Ye Chen only had a slight smile on his face, but he was even more horrified in his heart.
So far, although he has benefited a lot from the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures", he still doesn't know who actually wrote the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures".
Now, when he learned that Meng Changsheng had refined the Rejuvenation Pill more than a thousand years ago and gave two Rejuvenation Pills to the ancestors of the Jiang family, he couldn't help but ask himself: "Could it be that what I got?"
"Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures" was written by Meng Changsheng? The antique that the father-in-law knocked over in the Jiqing Hall of the Song family that day was indeed a jade pot spring vase from the Tang Dynasty, and Meng Changsheng was also a person from the Linde period of the Tang Dynasty.
, In this way, the general dynasties are consistent. Coupled with the information related to the Rejuvenation Pill learned from Grandma Jiang, this inference seems to be somewhat possible..."
However, Ye Chen also knew very well that it was impossible to conclude that "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures" was written by Meng Changsheng based on these two points alone.
If you really want to prove this matter, you must at least find more clues.
So, he suppressed this question in his heart for the time being, and asked Mrs. Jiang: "Grandma Jiang, may I ask how long your ancestor lived before he passed away?"
The old lady said: "My ancestor passed away in the fourth year of Xiantong in 863 AD. He lived for 113 years. Because Patriarch Meng's wife and children were buried in the middle of the back mountain. Therefore, my ancestor was buried in the mountain after his death."
At the foot of the back mountain, all descendants of our Jiang family were buried at the foot of the mountain."
Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "The old man lived one hundred and thirteen years, minus the forty years of two rejuvenation pills, and he lived to seventy-three on his own. In that era, it was very rare."
According to the statistics of some unreliable scholars, the average life expectancy of people in the Tang Dynasty was about forty or even fifty years old.
However, their statistics and research are very one-sided. They only count the ages of those recorded people when they died from the epitaphs and recorded history books that can be found, and then calculate a so-called average age.
But they ignored a big problem. Those who can leave their names in the history books, have a tombstone and have someone carve an epitaph, are themselves the elite of that era.
Moreover, many children who died in infancy and unmarried young people did not leave tombstones after their deaths, not to mention the common people who hadtily buried them with straw mats after their deaths.
Therefore, the average lifespan of the elite calculated using elite statistics has no real meaning.
Verifiable history shows that the average lifespan of emperors in the Tang Dynasty was only about 44 years old. This was the most elite class in the Tang Dynasty at that time, and they assembled the best means of life and production in the country. But even so, the average lifespan was only about 44 years old.
Only forty-four years old.
Many objective scholars believe that if the high mortality rate of infants and young children and the average life expectancy of ordinary people are taken into account, the real average life expectancy in the Tang Dynasty should be around thirty years old.
Based on this calculation, the ancestor of the old lady's family lived seventy-three years on her own, which is longer than any emperor of the Tang Dynasty. This is already very remarkable.
At this time, Mrs. Jiang also nodded and sighed: "It is recorded in the genealogy that when my ancestor was one hundred and thirteen years old, he was neither deaf nor blind, and his body was still strong. Everyone thought he could live to be one hundred years old.
He was twenty years old, but when he was one hundred and thirteen years old, one day after dinner, he sat in front of the charcoal fire and took a nap. Suddenly he said very excitedly that Patriarch Meng had sent a white crane to pick him up. After saying this, he smiled with a smile on his face.
died."
Ye Chen said: "It seems that your ancestors really have a deep relationship with Patriarch Meng."
"Yes." the old lady said: "The ancestors left their ancestral instructions before their death. The Jiang family members are not allowed to leave here for generations. They must always guard the tombs of Meng Laozu's wife and children. This is because Meng Laozu told our ancestors when they were separated.
If I find the way to immortality, I will definitely come back to my ancestors and give him some blessings..."
Ye Chen whispered: "This Patriarch Meng has never shown up 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 people in the painting appear here. Perhaps Meng Laozu failed to find the way to immortality back then, and at the threshold of two hundred years old
Maybe the immortal has passed away..."
Ye Chen nodded and said: "It is not impossible. Although the Rejuvenation Pill is a panacea, it cannot be superimposed on any one person without limit. If you only rely on the Rejuvenation Pill, you will not live to be two hundred years old. Even if you have aura, you will not live forever.
If you don't age, if you want to live forever, you still have to have other opportunities."
Even the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures" does not record any method of making people immortal. The "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures" is fundamentally more like a textbook on how to use spiritual energy, but how to make spiritual energy more powerful
, powerful to the point of being invincible and immortal. There is no record in the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures".
Moreover, in the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures", there is no method that can make people live for more than two hundred years. Although there are a lot of records about high-grade spiritual pills in the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures", some of which can even allow people to possess them.
He has almost god-like abilities, but he doesn't have the kind of pill that can make people live for three to five hundred years, or even thousands of years.
Therefore, it is theoretically impossible for Patriarch Meng to still be alive after more than a thousand years, and his life may have stopped at a certain deadline.
This kind of person only lives his life for cultivation. He may not have anyone by his side until he dies. He is driving westward in a cave in a deep mountain and old forest. In the end, he cannot escape those six words: dust to dust, dust to dust.
Return to the land.
Thinking of this, Ye Chen asked the old lady again: "Grandma Jiang, your tribe has not left here for so many years?"
The old lady thought for a while and said: "The ancestral precepts of my ancestors are not to keep us inseparable. He hopes that we can stay here, but at the same time, he also hopes that we can know the world's affairs, so the Jiang family has always attached great importance to it."
Reading, when I was young, my father taught me to read and read, and later sent me down the mountain to attend middle school. In the intervening years, some descendants could not restrain themselves and ran away, but the vast majority of them have always lived in
this……"
Ye Chen asked her: "It must be difficult to live here, right?"
The old lady smiled and said: "In this deep mountain, except for getting sick, eating and drinking are not a problem. Our people farm in spring and summer and hunt in autumn and winter. They have always lived a good life. And this place is far away from the flames of war. For more than a thousand years, whether it is
No one has ever attacked here, so we can ensure that the family inheritance has never been interrupted."
Ye Chen asked again: "Are all the other people in this village your clansmen?"
The old lady said: "There are very few people named Jiang here now."
As she spoke, she sighed: "For more than a thousand years, the Jiang family has never been prosperous, especially the number of men. In the early years, we had many female descendants who wanted to get married. In order to avoid leaving here as much as possible,
, we can only find ways to recruit wives. There are more and more people with foreign surnames, and they are all male strong laborers. Gradually, the yang is rising and the yin is declining, and the Jiang family's right to speak is slowly getting smaller and smaller;"
"Many men who married into their children agreed at the time of their marriage that the baby would have the girl's surname Jiang. But when the baby was born, he regretted it. He either had to take the boy's surname or take the baby away from here. There was no other way.
, The Jiang family is a house of women, and their arms cannot twist their thighs, so they gradually let them go;"
"A man with a foreign surname comes and gives birth to several children with a foreign surname. The children with a foreign surname marry or marry other people with a foreign surname. As time goes by, there are fewer and fewer people with the surname Jiang. Although people in this village often
Most of the older generation are related to each other, but there are almost no people named Jiang left, and we are the only ones left."
Ye Chen nodded and asked again: "Do people with other surnames know these things about Patriarch Meng?"