However, when reading these cases, she also learned some inside stories about the ancient tribe through the experiences of these people.
For example, the ancient tribe was in short supply of food.
But there is no shortage of farmland here.
The ancient tribe is based on family units, and generally the fields are assigned to a certain family.
Of course there will be tenants, but most of them are small families with relatively small family land, renting and cultivating fields from larger families.
Coupled with the year-by-year decrease in population, the field situation here should actually be that there are more people but less land.
Under such circumstances, even if food shortages occur, they will not be too serious.
But judging from the history, at least twenty years ago, the ancient tribe had a serious shortage of food, and most of them relied on food shipped back from outside.
She secretly asked a few familiar people, and they all said that 80% of the harvest from their family's fields throughout the year would be taken away by their respective families and converted into money.
They are using the money to buy food shipped in from outside.
As for their locally produced food, it is difficult to see it on the market.
Nowadays, the foreign policy of the ancient tribe has been tightened again and again, and the crops in the fields have not grown well in the past two years. Even if they have money in hand, they cannot buy enough rice.
Under the attack of two parties, for ordinary families, isn't it just getting worse and worse?
But Lin Mengya thought about something more.
The combination of the unexplained and harmful "magic medicine", the young and strong labor force that disappeared inexplicably, and the food in the fields, seemed strange to her no matter how she looked at it.
Maybe they didn't feel it themselves, but as an outsider, Lin Mengya was keenly aware that this was a premeditated "hunt."
The once glorious ancient tribe is now just a "prey" who is in prison without knowing it.
If the ancient clan falls, who knows whether the next target will be an outside family, or the Gong family?
For a moment, she felt a chill down her spine.
There seemed to be countless pairs of eyes monitoring their every move from all directions.
Seriously, it’s a treacherous game of chess!
Just after she finished all this, nine days had passed since she conquered the last of the thirteen levels.
At noon, just as Lin Mengya and Long Tianyu finished eating, news came from Qinghu.
The bad old man's contact person at the Presbyterian Church finally got the news.
The two of them spoke to Du Canjun and arrived at Qinghu as quickly as possible.
At this time, he was doing the final confirmation work with the bad old man.
Unexpectedly, after not seeing him for a few days, this old man would actually change his appearance.
He used to be called the old god , not only because of the medicines in his hands, but more importantly because this guy has the spirit of an immortal.
And he doesn't look old. Judging from his appearance, he is in his early fifties at most.
But today, saying he was eighty years old seemed a bit understatement to her.
People suddenly lose their vitality, and their faces age rapidly, with many age spots growing on the sagging skin.
The whole person gave her the same feeling as those evil old wizards in anime.
Old age is scary.
Qinghu pulled the man's collar and asked in a cold voice, "Let me ask you one last time, is there anything wrong with the content here?"
The old man squinted his eyes and glanced at the piece of paper in his hand with difficulty, then nodded and said in a hoarse voice, "No, that's right, that's it."
After just a few words, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength, lying on the ground breathing hard.
Lin Mengya frowned slightly when she saw him like this.
Not quite right.
Although she had given him a lot of medicine before, she also gave Qinghu some antidotes that could delay the effects of the medicine.
As long as he takes it according to the time she told him, then this person will never experience rapid aging while taking the medicine.
unless--
She walked over and grabbed the old man's withered wrist.
After checking the old man's condition, Lin Mengya couldn't help but cursed secretly for being careless.
"How did he become like this?"
Next to him, Long Tianyu glanced at Qinghu secretly and asked in a low voice, "What if it delays Ya'er?"
"Don't try to accuse me wrongly." Qinghu immediately rolled his eyes, "I gave him the medicine according to the medicine the girl gave me. I didn't give him any less or more."
"This old man has become what he is now, probably because he has done too many evil things and has received retribution."
Long Tianyu was noncommittal.
In fact, he believed Qinghu's words.
After all, I'm afraid no one in the family would listen to his wife's words more than Qinghu.
Therefore, I am afraid that this matter still lies with the old man.
"I used to think that he was just researching the magic medicine over the years and didn't take it. But now it seems that the old man not only took it, but he must have also figured out his own method."
After Lin Mengya checked the situation, she asked people to take the bad old man away.
This man is too old to walk.
He is already very weak. Without her medicine to keep him alive, I am afraid he would have died of old age long ago.
Already.
"So what you're saying is that he poisoned himself to death?" Qinghu hugged his shoulders, with a hint of schadenfreude in his tone.
This old man deserves it!
"Well, you can put it that way! How old do you think he is really?"
Lin Mengya took out a clean cloth and wiped her hands before questioning the two of them.
The two men looked at each other, and then answered together, "Eighty and eighty-five."
Lin Mengya glanced at Long Tianyu and said with a smile, "Your answer is relatively close. If I am not wrong, this old man is almost a hundred years old."
"Isn't this impossible?" Qinghu still wanted to make amends for himself.
It's not that he can't afford to lose, but why does he think he has to lose to Long Tianyu for such a trivial matter?
"Although he looks quite old now, no matter how I looked at him before, I thought he must be less than eighty years old."
Lin Mengya nodded and said, "I was deceived before. Normally, no matter how young the centenarians we see are, there are very few who are fifty years younger."
"Unless there is a miracle of rejuvenation."
"But this person is not using medicine to forcefully rejuvenate his condition."
"But he set his age at fifty."
Normally, as long as the cells in the human body continue to be replaced by new ones and old ones, human aging is inevitable.
Whether it is skin, bones, internal organs, etc., they will all change with aging.
But this person artificially pressed the "pause button" for this change.
No wonder she didn't notice the bad old man's true condition when she saw him for the first time.
Now, due to the effects of the two drugs, this balance has been broken, and people naturally return to their proper state in the shortest possible time.
It seems that this person really has two skills.
But that's where it ends.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, old monster, you are really greedy. You have lived for such a long time, but you still want to rejuvenate yourself and stay young forever?" Qinghu said disdainfully.
In fact, his situation is somewhat similar to this old man's.
Ordinarily, based on his actual age, he could be called brother to Lin Mengya's father, but in appearance, he only looks a few years older than Lin Mengya.
But he doesn't think this kind of "youth" is a good experience.
If he hadn't met the little girl, I'm afraid he would have died looking like a "young man" in his life.
So, to a certain extent, he is no longer a human being. He wants to experience a complete life, rather than forcibly depriving him of the right to experience life regardless of his wishes.
So he especially hates what the bad old man insists on pursuing.
Lin Mengya shrugged, "People are always greedy. By the way, what did the news from over there say?"
Hearing this, Qinghu remembered serious matters and quickly handed the letter to her.
"This is the content of the secret letter that I translated based on the old man's confession. It said that after five days, he should bring ten carts of medicine to the meeting point."
"Ten carts?" Lin Mengya couldn't help but be shocked by the quantity of the medicine.
"Are they treating this medicine like cabbage? Ten cartloads of it are enough to be eaten as food, right?"
Qinghu was also helpless, so he got the person out and tried his best to get the bad old man to translate it again.
The results are the same.
"But I have never asked for so many before. Could it be that they discovered something and want to test us?" Lin Mengya had the notes of her colleague in her hand.
On it, there is the quantity that the colleague secretly wrote down every time.
Three cars and five cars are considered too many, but ten cars at a time is hard not to make people think too much!
Next to him, Long Tianyu glanced at the transaction location on the paper, and after thinking for a moment, reminded him, "Look at the joint location on it."
The other two people also looked at each other after hearing this.
"Huh? How come Qiwang Valley is so familiar?" Lin Mengya tried hard to think about it, but as soon as she thought of it, Qinghu took the lead.
"That's the base camp of Shaoxuan Army!"
Lin Mengya opened her mouth, but she was beaten to the punch again, so she could only nod her head.
"Yes, King Qi Valley is the base camp of the Shaoxuan Army. And the most important thing is that whether the previous general dies or the next general takes office, a ceremony must be held here."
"But now there are almost 80% of the Shaoxuan Army in the Qiwang Valley. Now if someone sends medicine there, wouldn't that be a sheep in the wolf's mouth?" Lin Mengya felt that this matter might be a bit troublesome.
For a moment, the three of them fell into silence.
In fact, according to their previous plan, they were to wait for the news from the people over at the Presbyterian Church, and then pretend to be the people sent by the bad old man to find out the ins and outs of the medicines and see if they had been circulated and harmed anyone.
But if the situation is like this, if we go, it may become a dead end.
After all, 80% of the Shaoxuan Army's strength, with their few heads of strength, would be like delivering goods to someone's door.
To go or not to go, that is probably an obvious question.