The sun is blazing, it is already afternoon, Lin Yanyue's caravan and his party have already set off from Queyang City, it is estimated that they can reach Quelong Bridge before sunset, thirty miles away, according to the speed of the caravan, it will take about one and a half to two hours.

The original scattered caravan of more than 20 people now looks a little bigger, the people are still those people, and there are no new members to join, but the caravan has purchased a lot of goods in Queyang City, and added five or six new carriages and horses, and Lin Yanyue is still hanging in the last position of the caravan.

Mazi and another young man in his twenties were with Lin Diyue, and the three of them chatted from time to time, Lin Diyue didn't talk much, most of them were Mazi talking, telling about what he had seen and heard in the past ten years.

From Mazi's narration, Lin Yanyue learned a lot of things, such as the livelihood of running a business, which is lucrative, but it is also relatively dangerous, especially when passing through some deep mountains and old forests, he often encounters robbers.

The south bank of the Longjiang River, the climate is mild, the water area is vast, the aquatic resources are abundant, it is a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and there are many rare and exotic fruits, while the south bank of the Longjiang River is a lot of mountains and forests, rich in mineral deposits, and there are many wild beasts. It is in response to the sentence "There is a lot of rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are many tigers and wolves in the north of the river"

The differentiation on both sides of the Longjiang River has created a unique business environment, so there are many traders on both sides of the river, buying aquatic products and other goods from the Jiangnan region, selling them on the north bank, and then purchasing minerals or animal skins from the north bank and selling them in the south of the Yangtze River.

Over time, a complete industrial chain was formed, and most of the caravans traveling between the two places were also attached to large commercial houses.

Lin Yanyue's caravan is just a small caravan among the many caravans of the large trading house Tianyuan Commercial Bank, the scale is just twenty people, such caravans generally operate some less valuable items, the danger is low, and of course the return is low.

Therefore, like the errand that Lin Yanyue happened to take over to transport goods, even if it is a relatively large business, not counting the one hundred taels of silver that the old man in brocade gave him alone, there are still one hundred taels, and the caravan's long journey, excluding the cost, the final surplus is probably more than a thousand taels of silver, don't underestimate this benefit, you must know that in the Tianmiao Country, ten taels of silver is enough for the living expenses of an ordinary family for about half a year.

And this caravan, the line that runs all year round, is about a little more than a thousand miles, a round trip, about twenty-one or two days, so in this way, after a month, the income of ordinary team members like Mazi is about thirty to fifty taels, and a small leader like Yu San can be more than four or fifty percent, which is a lot of wealth.

After Lin Dianyue learned all this, she secretly said in her heart, she had been living in Linjia Village before, where had she seen so much money, there were occasional transactions in the village, all of them were with a lot of money, and Linjia Village generally only exchanged with each other, and each took what he needed.

Lin Yanyue stretched out her hand and touched it in her arms, there, there was a silver ticket, which was the one that the old man in brocade gave him later, originally Lin Yanyue wanted to give the silver ticket to Master Qian, but Master Qian didn't accept it, saying that this was what he deserved, and the one hundred taels he paid before was even if it was a caravan, so Lin Anyue had to take it into his arms again.

The other people in the caravan looked at Lin Anyue with envy, but they were all okay, they didn't show any jealousy, maybe they had it in their hearts, it wasn't so strong.

Therefore, Lin Darkyue's eyes will look at the big box on the carriage next to him from time to time, if there are any potholes or something on the road ahead, Lin Darkyue will pay attention to it, put down the speed of the horse, and drive slowly by, the other people in the caravan will smile when they see this scene, they are like this, they are entrusted by people, loyal to people, and business will last for a long time.

Unconsciously, the people in the caravan, regardless of age, had a sharp sense of identification with this thin young man who was a hitchhiker. And all this, Lin Diyue didn't know.

After traveling about twenty miles, Master Qian, who was walking at the front of the crowd, moved his ears slightly, stopped his forward steps, looked at the distance ahead, and waved his hand upward.

"Stop, rest where you are. ”

Master Qian didn't say much, and Yu San behind him was a little surprised, but seeing Master Qian's face sinking like water, he silently walked back, so that everyone could settle down and rest for a while.

At the end of the caravan, Mazi, who received the news, sighed softly, and Lin Yanyue and the man named Wang Tong looked at him in unison.

"Strange, what are you doing here?" Asako is also an old man who has been running a merchant for more than ten years, and he has a lot of experience, he looked at the bare sides around the convoy, there is neither grass to feed the horses, nor there are big trees to shade, so that the caravan is exposed to the scorching sun, which is a little abnormal.

Mazi told the two of them the reason, and the two suddenly realized, and they also felt that what Mazi said made sense, but Mazi also said that there must be other things that they didn't know about, Master Qian was the head of the famous caravan of Tianyuan Commercial Bank, that is, the person in charge, and the experience was so old that it was needless to say.

Everyone rested for about a cup of tea, and on the road ahead of the caravan, several fast horses galloped over, Master Qian was not surprised, it seemed that the reason why he stopped before was afraid that it was because of this, but his body was straightened, and a trace of momentum rose quietly.

However, the visitor did not linger for long, just glanced at Master Qian, and then glanced at the flag planted on the caravan, and the flag was far away from the sky. The four fast horses roared past one after another, dusty all the way, and as for the rest of the caravan, the four who had passed by did not look at it.

The people in the caravan also interrupted their conversation, and they all looked at each other, until the four fast horses disappeared into the distance.

Lin Anyue was also watching, maybe because of the angle, the four people in the past all had weapons on their bodies, and the sunlight reflected right on Lin Anyue's face.

After a while, the dust cleared, and the team set off again, without a long delay, and the rest of the journey was unusually quiet, and no one was encountered, either in the same direction or in the opposite direction.

A little earlier than expected, the sun was already setting in the west, and when the sunset was just born, the caravan had already seen the huge dragon-shaped stone carvings at the head of the Que Long Bridge.

The Que Long Bridge, as the name suggests, is a display of similar categories in the building, representing the imminent entry into another special area.

This Que Long Bridge is named for this, and it has two meanings.

The first implication is that the Que Long Bridge separates the two sides of the Long River and can be regarded as a gateway to both sides.

The second meaning, there are some myths, saying that this is the Longmen Pass of Longjiang, Longjiang is the mother, giving birth to a real dragon, and a leap over the dragon gate is a dragon, so it is named Que Long, that is, the gate of the real dragon.

In fact, it is the Longjiang River is wide and boundless, and the Que Long Bridge here is like tying a belt to the Longjiang River, the Longjiang River flows mostly from west to east, the Que Long Bridge goes east more than 100 meters, there is a small waterfall with a drop of more than 10 meters, and the water area of several hundred meters to the west is similar to a huge lake, so it causes the Que Long Bridge to have a turbulent water flow here, the waves are turbulent, and the boats can not ferry, so the ancestors spent huge manpower and material resources, and built this Que Long Bridge in the narrowest place in the waters of the Longjiang River.

So don't look at this Que Long Bridge across the Longjiang River, in fact, it is not long, less than 100 meters, but whenever you pass by this bridge, you can hear the huge roar of the waterfall not far away, such as the thunder rolling in the sky, so that people are frightened, so there is a saying that "everything on the Que Long Bridge is frightened, do not worship the real dragon and do not move forward".

The so-called "worship the real dragon" refers to the worship of the huge dragon-shaped stone carvings at both ends of the Que Long Bridge.