When the elderlydy heard Charlie mention the Huichun Pill, her eyes widened in disbelief. “…You… you know about the Huichun Pill too?!” she eximed.
Charlie nodded and replied honestly, “Yes, I know about it.”
He remained silent thereafter.
In fact, he hade prepared with a Rejuvenation Pill specifically for Mrs. Jiang.
Mrs. Jiang couldn’t contain her excitement, saying, “You truly have extraordinary abilities, just like Old Ancestor Meng!”<h3 style="background-color:DodgerBlue">
Charlie simply smiled, but deep down, he felt a wave of apprehension.
Despite the advantages he had gained from the “Nine Xuantian Jing,” he was still unaware of its author.
Now, upon learning that Mason had sessfully refined the Rejuvenation Pill over a thousand years ago and had given two of them to the ancestors of the Jiang family, he couldn’t help but wonder, “Could the Rejuvenation Pill I possess be connected to Mason? Is it possible that the ‘Nine Xuantian Jing’ was authored by him? The antique that my father-inw identally knocked over in Jiqing Hall of the Moore family was indeed a Tang Dynasty jade pot and spring vase. Mason hails from the Linde period of the Tang Dynasty. This timeline aligns, andbined with the information I gathered about the Huichun Pill from Grandma, this theory seems usible…”
However, Charlie was acutely aware that he couldn’t simply conclude that Mason wrote the “Nine Xuantian Jing” based on these two pieces of information alone.
To truly confirm this, he needed to uncover more evidence.
With that thought in mind, he posed a question to Grandma Jiang: “Grandma, how long did your ancestor live?”
The olddy replied, “My ancestor was born in the Xiantong era in 863 AD and passed away four years ago, reaching the age of one hundred and thirteen. Since Meng Laozu’s family wasid to rest in the middle of the back mountain, our ancestors were buried at the foot of that same mountain.”
Charlie sighed, reflecting, “Living to be 113 is remarkable. If we consider the 40 years attributed to the two Rejuvenation Pills, he still lived to be 73 on his own, which was quite exceptional for that time.”
ording to some unreliable schrs, the average life expectancy during the Tang Dynasty was around 40 to 50 years.
However, these statistics are quite narrow, as they only ount for individuals recorded in history and their ages at death from tombstones and historical texts.
They neglect a significant issue: those who are documented in history, who possess tombstones and engraved epitaphs, belong to the elite ss of that era.
Moreover, many children who died young and those who passed away without heirs didn’t receive tombstones, and ordinary people were often hastily buried with minimal rites.<fn9259> Content originallyes from find~novel</fn9259>
Thus, the average life expectancy calcted from the elite ss holds little real significance.
Historical records show that the average life expectancy of emperors during the Tang Dynasty was only about 44 years. This group represented the highest echelons of society, equipped with the best resources and living conditions, yet they only lived to be 44.
Many objective schrs argue that when ounting for the high infant mortality rate and the average life expectancy of the general poption, the true average life expectancy during the Tang Dynasty should hover around 30 years.
Given this perspective, Mrs. Jiang’s ancestor living to the age of seventy-three is indeed remarkable, surpassing many emperors of the Tang Dynasty.
At that moment, Mrs. Jiang nodded in agreement, adding, “The genealogy notes that when my ancestor reached 113, he was neither deaf nor did he suffer from blurred vision; he remained in good health. Everyone believed he would reach 120. But one day, after enjoying dinner and resting by the charcoal fire, he suddenly eximed that Old Ancestor Meng had sent a white crane to escort him. He passed away with a smile after saying this.”