"Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky."

"According to the covenant Shu Road leaning on the blue sky"

"Seeing the silkworm road, it is rugged and not easy to walk. Mountains rise from people, and clouds are born from horses. ”

Since ancient times, there are countless poems that marvel at the hardships of the Shu Road, although the Shuzhong of Daguang is very different from the previous life that Yang Yi knows, but the hardships and dangers of the Shu Road are more than equal.

After more than ten days of trekking, Yang Yi finally arrived at the entrance to Shuzhong.

As long as the business travelers from the south to the north pass this place, they will face countless plank roads, dangerous passes, and rugged roads in the mountains. There is a saying among the people of Daguang that when walking on the road to Shu, there will be a feeling of a trip to hell, and those who have no courage should not enter Shu.

Only he knows whether Yang Yi has the courage or not, but the fear of heights, which is a disease, is not something that courage can solve.

In order not to attract attention, Yang Yi only brought more than ten people to Shu this time, and the two personal bodyguards of Monkey Jian'er and Tie Niu must not be left behind, followed by the four or five people with the strongest martial arts among the generals.

Because considering that the mountains and forests in Shu are all over the place, it is definitely a place for hunters like Hu Shou to show their skills, so Hu Shou and several hunters also followed Yang Yi into Shu first.

The group disguised themselves as a team to visit relatives in Shuzhong, and it only took more than ten days to pass through Zhongzhou and Qinzhou, although there were some small bumps along the way, but basically did not encounter any major problems.

When Yang Yi and the others came to Zhankou, nearly a hundred people gathered here, and after careful observation, except for some bulk traders who made a living here, the rest were the escorts of two caravans.

Daguang Shuzhong, like the ancient Shu Kingdom known to Yang Yi in his previous life, is famous for its abundance of silk and Shu brocade, where almost every household will breed silkworms, and a large number of silk brocades will be produced every year.

Since ancient times, agricultural and commercial industries must be closely related, and when a local goods form a large-scale output, it will inevitably derive the corresponding commercial circulation.

No matter how difficult Shu Dao is, it can't help people's desire for money, although there are countless people who fall on this dangerous road every year, they still can't stop one caravan after another from conquering it for wealth.

Yang Yi and the others waited for a day in the wild market in front of the stack mouth, and then two caravans came here to replenish supplies and prepare to enter Shuzhong.

After Yang Yi's observation, one of the two caravans had about fifty people, and the other was less, about thirty people.

The two caravans were ready to enter the Shu Road after a simple supply, Yang Yi decisively ordered, and he and others also followed them into Shu, first, Yang Yi and the others did not know anything about the road conditions, and secondly, they thought that everyone would walk together, and there would always be a response.

But what Yang Yi didn't expect was that these caravans didn't seem to be so harmonious with each other, but were full of vigilance, maybe on the hundreds of miles of uninhabited mountain roads, anyone could become their enemy.

When the larger caravan left the entrance and entered the mountain pass, the smaller caravan did not set out for a long time. After thinking about it, Yang Yi decided to follow the big caravan and enter the plank road first.

After entering the plank road, the hardships of the plank road and the wisdom of the ancients are far beyond Yang Yi's imagination.

Plank road, refers to the road built along the cliff, also known as the pavilion road, compound road. Or digging mountains as roads, or building bridges to cross water, or building wooden roads supported by wooden pillars on the deep ravines of dangerous rocks by the cliffs of mountains, all of them are thrilling.

Yang Yi had walked on plank roads when he traveled in his previous life, but those plank roads had been framed by modern machinery and technology, and they were more stable than flat ground.

However, at this time, Yang Yi was concerned and stepped on the wooden plank that looked extremely old, and when he stepped forward, the plank under every step would make a "crunch" sound, making people feel that the plank could break and collapse at any time. In fact, there are already a lot of gaps on the boardwalk, and you have to be more careful when walking.

In fear, after walking for most of the day, maybe it was good luck, although Yang Yi and other dozen people were shocked, they did not encounter any accidents.

The caravan in front of it didn't have such good luck, maybe because the goods were too heavy, along the way, two mules and a guard had fallen down the cliff, and there were no bones, and Yang Yi and the others who were watching were in a cold sweat.

However, the people in the caravan did not seem to be too frightened, and every time there was an accident, they would rush away immediately after simply packing up, and would not delay for a quarter of an hour.

And after noon, Yang Yi and the others found that the small caravan of more than 30 people behind them had already caught up, but it was quite a distance away from the people in front.

Yang Yi and the others almost followed the big caravan in front of them, completely ignoring the unkind glances cast by the people in the caravan. In Yang Yi's words: "He walked his way, and I crossed my bridge, with my front foot and back foot, but I didn't get along with each other." ”

The three teams had traveled through the mountains for a day, and in the evening they had reached a river.

Before Yang Yi entered the mountain, he asked Monkey Jian'er to inquire, and there was a post station thirty miles forward to cross the river here, where you could spend the night, and the next day you could reach the first pass in Shuzhong--- "Jianchong Pass".

Yang Yi didn't know what the name of the river at his feet was, the river was sandwiched between two mountains, the river was extremely turbulent, and the only way to get to the other side was to erect a trestle bridge on the mountainside of the two mountains, which seemed to be about to break at any time.

The caravan in front of it began to cross the bridge after tidying up a little at the bridgehead, followed by Yang Yi and the others.

The trestle shook so badly that it made people feel like they were swinging, and Yang Yi didn't even dare to look down at the waves like a beast roaring under his feet.

When Yang Yi and the others walked to the middle of the plank road, the caravan in front had basically reached the opposite bank, and at this time, the caravan in the rear also came to the bridge, and was sorting out and preparing to cross the bridge.

"Boom !!!"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang at the head of the bridge in front of him, which made Yang Yi's feet tremble, thinking that the trestle had collapsed, so he hurriedly closed his eyes and grabbed the bridge cable with both hands, and his face was in a cold sweat, and he almost screamed.

After half a sound, I didn't feel the feeling of falling, but I heard the monkey on the side say, "Childe? Childe, are you alright? ”

Yang Yi shook his head and opened his eyes, but saw the monkey looking at him with a smile on his face, and said, "Childe... You are not afraid of thousands of troops, how can you be afraid of this mere rope bridge? ”

Yang Yi looked at the turbulent river below, swallowed his spit, and said, "Damn, haven't you ever seen a fear of heights?" As he spoke, the hand that grabbed the bridge rope tightened a little.

Fear of heights is actually a very serious psychological disease, in Yang Yi's previous life, there is a kind of glass plank road tourism project in many places, I don't know how many people are scared because of fear of heights crying, and many strong men are often seen on the Internet, who are scared to lie on it and cry bitterly.

Yang Yi felt that he was still able to stand firm at this time, which was already very commendable, but in fact, his legs were already shaking and a little numb.

Everyone secretly thought it was funny, but they could only hold back and didn't dare to laugh out loud.

"Childe, there seems to be an accident ahead." The tall iron bull said suddenly.

Yang Yi took two deep breaths to calm himself down, looked up at the end of the bridge, and was startled.

I saw that a boulder rolled down from the narrow road of the Qiaotou Pass in front of me to block the way, and the rumbling sound was the sound of the stone rolling down.

The boulder blocked the way, Yang Yi was not the first time he had met it, Cangyunzhai had successfully captured him and Xiao Liang in this way.

The terrain here is obviously more dangerous than the mountain road that Yang Yi encountered that day, there is only one road in front and back, there are dangerous mountains on both sides, and there is a lonely trestle bridge in the back.

And before coming to Shuzhong, Yang Yi and others originally hired a guide, but when the guide arrived at the stack, he said that he would not come in, firstly because the road to Shu was steep and abnormal, and secondly, because of the bandits.

Ma bandits, in fact, are mountain bandits, just because Shu is rich in silk brocade, caravans usually carry these goods, most of the things robbed by mountain bandits are these objects, and then transported out of Shu to exchange money and grain, so the mountain bandits on the Shu road are habitually called bandits by businessmen.

Barren mountains and mountains, ordinary people generally encounter bandits are a matter of nine deaths, kill people, cross the goods, and then throw the corpse into the mountain cliff torrent, and you will disappear from this world.

Sure enough, Yang Yi thought about it, and more than 100 people had already sprang out of the woods on both sides of the mountain road in front of him, all masked and holding knives, fierce and vicious, and he didn't need to think about it to know that it was a bandit robbing the road.

There was a masked man standing on top of the boulder, shouting something to the caravan, the sound of the water flowing under the bridge was too loud, and Yang Yi and others standing in the middle of the trestle couldn't hear what he was saying, but most of them were jargon such as "I planted this tree, I opened this road, and left the road money".

The caravan seemed to be a little panicked, and they all pulled out their weapons to confront the bandits, and a middle-aged man who looked like a caravan butler stepped forward to say something to the man, and the masked man's expression and movements seemed to be not pleasant.

"Childe, look at the back." Monkey Jian'er reminded Yang Yidao.

Yang Yi turned his head and saw that the caravan behind him was already walking back, retreating to the other side of the river.

Monkey Jian'er worried: "Let's go back too, right?" ”

Yang Yi frowned and thought for a while, looked back and forth again, and suddenly said, "No, let's cross the bridge." ”

After speaking, he held the bridge rope and walked to the other side of the river tremblingly.

Although everyone was puzzled, there were obviously bandits blocking the road in front of them, why did they have to go over, but since Yang Yi had decided, everyone knew that there must be his reason, so they followed forward without thinking.

"I don't know which mountain the strong man is hidden? We are the caravan of Chengzhou Wanfu Commercial Bank, and this year's road repair money is sent to every mountain. The caravan steward said to the masked bandit on the boulder.

Of course, the money for building the road mentioned by the steward is not the money used to repair the road. The bandits have been entrenched in the mountains and forests of Shu for many years, and the government has cleared and suppressed them countless times, but because of the steep mountain roads and unfamiliar terrain conditions, the bandits have not been cleaned up, but they have lost their troops and generals, and they are no longer able to conquer and suppress them.

As soon as the commercial houses in Shuzhong discussed, they had to secretly reach an agreement with the bandits to pay a high amount of "road repair money" every year to ensure safety, and the bandits were not allowed to plunder the caravans of the "road repair fees" trading houses.