Door-to-door dragon son-in-law

Chapter 2518

When the old lady heard Ye Chen say the words Huichun Pill, she asked in shock, "Grandpa...you...you also know Huichun Pill?!"

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

There was a sentence 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 admiring: "You are indeed a person with great supernatural powers just like Old Ancestor Meng!"

Ye Chen only smiled slightly, but was even more horrified in his heart.

So far, although he has benefited a lot from the "Nine Xuantian Jing", he still doesn't know who wrote the "Nine Xuantian Jing".

Now, when he learned that Meng Changsheng had already refined the Rejuvenation Pill more than 1000 years ago, and gave two Rejuvenation Pills to the ancestors of the Jiang family, he couldn't help asking himself: "Could it be that the "Nine Rejuvenation Pills" I got Is Xuantian Jing written by Meng Changsheng? At the Jiqingtang of the Song family, the antique that the father-in-law knocked over was indeed a Tang Dynasty jade pot and spring vase, and Meng Changsheng was also a person from the Linde period of the Tang Dynasty. First of all, the general dynasties match, and with the information related to the Rejuvenation Pill that I learned from Grandma Jiang, this inference seems really possible..."

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

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

So, he put this question to the bottom of his heart for the time being, and asked Old Madam Jiang: "Grandma Jiang, dare to ask how long did that old ancestor of your family live to die?"

The old lady said: "The ancestor of my family died in 863 A.D., the fourth year of Xiantong, and lived to be 110 years old. Because the wife and children of Meng Laozu were buried in the middle of the back mountain, my ancestors were buried in the back mountain after death. At the foot of the mountain, the descendants of our Jiang family will also be buried at the foot of the mountain."

Ye Chen couldn't help sighing: "The old man lived to be 110 years old, minus the 40-year life span of the two Rejuvenation Pills, he also lived to be 73 years old by himself, which was very rare in that era."

According to the statistics of some unreliable scholars, the average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty was about 40 or even 50 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 that can be found and recorded history books, and then calculate a so-called average age.

But they overlooked a big problem. Those who can leave their names in history books, own a tombstone and have someone write an epitaph are themselves the elite class of that era.

Moreover, many children who died young and unmarried young people did not leave tombstones after their deaths, let alone those ordinary people who died and buried them hastily with straw mats.

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

Verifiable history shows that the average life expectancy of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty was only about 44 years old. This was the most elite class in the Tang Dynasty and assembled the best means of living and production in the country. Only 44 years old.

Many objective scholars believe that if the high infant mortality rate 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 with their own bodies, 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 110 was three years old, he was not deaf, his eyes were not blurred, and his body was still strong. Everyone thought he would live to be 120 years old, but 110 When he was three years old, one day he had dinner and sat in front of the charcoal fire for a nap, and suddenly said very excitedly that Old Ancestor Meng had sent a white crane to pick him up, and he passed away with a smile on his face."

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

"Yes." The old lady said: "The ancestors left the ancestral instructions during their lifetime. The Jiang family members are not allowed to leave here for generations. They must always guard the tombs of Meng's wife and children, because Meng's ancestor told him when he parted from my family's ancestors. If I find the way of longevity myself, I will definitely come back to find my ancestors and give him some blessings..."

Ye Chen whispered: "Since then, this old ancestor Meng hasn't shown up again?"

"No." The old lady shook her head and said, "The Jiang family has not left here for more than 1000 years, and they have never seen the person in the painting appear here. Perhaps the ancestor Meng failed to find the way to longevity and passed away at the threshold of two hundred years old. Maybe..."

Ye Chen nodded and said: "It's not impossible. Although Rejuvenation Pill is a panacea, it can't be superimposed on anyone without limit. Relying on Rejuvenation Pill alone, you can't live to be two hundred years old. Even if you have aura, it is not longevity. If you don’t grow old, if you want to live forever, you still need other opportunities.”

Even in the "Nine Xuantian Jing", there is no record of any method that can make people live forever. The "Nine Xuantian Jing" is more like a textbook on how to use spiritual energy, but how to make spiritual energy stronger , strong to a certain state of invincibility, immortality, and immortality, there is no record in the "Nine Xuantian Jing".

Moreover, in the "Nine Xuantian Jing", there is no method that can make people live for more than 200 years. The ability is close to that of a god, but there is no such kind of elixir that can make people live for three to five hundred years, or even thousands of years.

Therefore, it is theoretically impossible for Ancestor Meng to still be alive more than 1000 years later, and his life may have stopped at a certain date.

This kind of person spends his life only practicing, and may die without a single person by his side. He is driving westward in a cave in a deep mountain and old forest, and in the end he cannot escape those six words: dust to dust, dust to dust. return to earth.

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

The old lady thought for a while, and said, "My ancestor's ancestral precepts did not mean that we should not leave each other. He hoped that we could stay here, but at the same time, he also hoped that we could 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 study in middle school. In the intervening years, some descendants could not hold back and sneaked out, but most of them have been living in the this……"

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

The old lady smiled and said: "In this deep mountain, except for being sick and troublesome, eating and drinking are not a problem. Our people have been farming in spring and summer and hunting in autumn and winter. We have never fought here, so we can ensure that the family inheritance has never been broken."

Ye Chen asked again: "Are the other people in this village all your clansmen?"

The old lady said: "Now there are very few people surnamed Jiang here."

As she spoke, she sighed: "Over the past 1000 years of the Jiang family, the number of people has not been prosperous, especially the number of males. In the early years, we had many female offspring who wanted to marry. In order not to leave here as much as possible, we only If you can find a way to recruit a wife, there are more and more people with foreign surnames, and they are all male strong laborers, and gradually the yang flourishes and the yin declines, and the Jiang family's right to speak gradually becomes smaller and smaller; "

"Many men who get married have agreed when they got married that the child they give birth will follow the woman's surname Jiang, but after the baby is born, he backtracks and either must take the man's surname, or take the child away from here, there is no way , Jiang’s family is all women, their arms can’t twist their thighs, so they gradually let them go;”

"A man with a different surname will give birth to several children with a different surname, and the children with a different surname will marry or marry other people with a different surname. As time goes by, there will be fewer and fewer people with the surname Jiang. The older generation is all related, but there are almost no Jiang surnames left, only my wife and I are left."

Ye Chen nodded, and asked again: "Does the foreigner know these things about Old Ancestor Meng?"

(End of this chapter)