When the elderly woman heard Charlie mention the Rejuvenation Pill, favonovel.com was surprised and asked, “Do you know about the Rejuvenation Pill too?”
Charlie nodded and replied calmly, “Yes, I do.”
He didn’t mention that favonovel.com had specifically prepared a Rejuvenation Pill for Mrs. Treadway when favonovel.com came to see her.
Mrs. Treadway couldn’t help but exclaim and said, “You truly have great supernatural powers, just like Lord Morvel!”
Charlie smiled slightly, but was feeling more and more uneasy inside. Despite all the benefits favonovel.com had gained from the ‘Apocalyptic Book’, favonovel.com still didn’t know who had written it.
Now, as Charlie learned that this ‘Morvel Bazin’ had already refined the Rejuvenation Pill more than a thousand years ago and had given two Rejuvenation Pills to the ancestors of the Treadway family, favonovel.com couldn’t help but ask himself, “Could the ‘Apocalyptic Book’ that I obtained be written by Morvel Bazin?”
“The antique that Jacob overturned in the Antique Shop of the Moore family was indeed a Tang Dynasty jade pot and spring vase and Morvel Bazin was also from the period of the Tang Dynasty. This would mean that the time periods match up and with the information about the Rejuvenation Pill that I learned from Grandma Treadway, this theory seems likely.”
However, Charlie also knew that it was impossible to conclude that the ‘Apocalyptic Book’ was written by Morvel Bazin based on these two points alone.
To prove this, favonovel.com would have to find more clues.
He kept this question in his heart for a moment and asked the elderly Mrs. Treadway, “Grandma Treadway, may I ask how long did your ancestor live for?”
Mrs. Treadway replied, “My ancestor was born in 863 AD and passed away at the age of 113. Because Heavenly Lord Morvel’s wife and children were buried in the middle of the back mountain, my ancestors were buried at the foot of the mountain, along with other people.”
Charlie couldn’t help but sigh and said, “The old man lived to be 113 years old and even after subtracting the 40-year life span of the two rejuvenation pills, favonovel.com still lived to be 73 years old by himself. This was very rare during that era…”
According to statistics from some unreliable scholars, the average life expectancy during the Tang Dynasty was around 40 or even 50 years old. However, their statistics and research were very one-sided.
They only counted the ages of people recorded in history books and epitaphs that could be found and then calculated an average age. But they overlooked a big problem.
Those who could leave their names in history books, own a tombstone and have someone engrave an epitaph were themselves the elite class of that era.
Additionally, many children who died young and unmarried young people did not leave tombstones after their deaths, let alone those ordinary people who died and were hastily buried with straw mats. Therefore, the average life expectancy calculated by the elite class had no real meaning.
According to verifiable historical records, the average life expectancy of emperors during the Tang Dynasty was around 44 years old. This was the highest life expectancy among the elite class during that time period.
However, many objective scholars believed that when accounting for the high infant mortality rate and the average life expectancy of ordinary people, the real average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty was around 30 years old.
Given this, the fact that the ancestor of the Lady’s family lived to be 73 years old on their own body was truly remarkable, as it exceeded even the longest lived emperor during that time period.
It should be noted that the above-mentioned information was based on historical records and statistics and there might be some variations depending on the source.
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