Tomb Robber: I, Chen Yulou, am dedicated to cultivating immortality!

A merchant going to Lucheng? !

Hearing the news, Chen Yulou immediately cheered up.

Discuss the understanding of the mountains, rivers and rivers of southern Yunnan.

Even the Tusi Mansion, which has been in charge of various places for hundreds of years, is not as good as those caravans.

Thousands of years of time.

Forcibly stepping on an ancient tea horse road with both feet.

Two months ago, when they passed Zhelong Mountain in front of Nanjian City for the first time, they lost their direction several times in the vast dense forest. Even with a map, it was of no help. In the end, they followed a business gang and finally arrived successfully.

Now, I heard the news again that a caravan was passing by.

How could Chen Yulou not be surprised?

"Did you see their business flag?"

"There is a stone character..."

Yuan Hong scratched his head and recalled it carefully.

"stone?"

Chen Yulou frowned, then murmured to himself.

"Is it the Shiping Merchant Gang?"

Since Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants withdrew from the historical stage of caravans in southern Yunnan.

Over the past hundred years, a total of four major business gangs have emerged, namely Shiping, Xizhou, Heqing and Tengyue, also known as the four major caravans.

These people are incredibly powerful and intricately connected.

Not only are they friendly with the chieftains from all over the country, but each family also has private soldiers. Unless they are crazy, no one wants to provoke them.

Of course, there are ruthless people who rob the caravan.

But I only dare to focus on those small households, or the poor and poor.

The four major business gangs didn't even know how they died if they dared to take another look.

"Is the team big?"

Various ethnic groups live together in southern Yunnan, and it is not uncommon for them to have the surname Shi. Just in case, Chen Yulou added.

"good."

"There must be a hundred and ten people."

This time Yuan Hong answered very quickly.

When I went down the mountain before, I saw the horse team setting off from the village at the foot of the mountain from a distance. It was probably the place where they stayed last night.

Yuan Hong did not dare to stay longer.

After taking a quick look, he hurried back.

"One hundred and ten people, that's correct. They should be people from the Shiping Merchant Gang."

Chen Yulou nodded and didn't waste any more time.

"Let's go back to the camp. Let the brothers bury the pots and cook as soon as possible. We should catch up with the caravan as much as possible and leave behind them."

The map kept by the Zuo family in Nanjian City.

It's still a legacy from decades ago.

It's okay in the general direction, but it's a lot worse in details.

The caravan is different. They make a fortune from this. Traveling across mountains and rivers is their ability to make a living.

Often if you skip a few days, you may be able to earn more money, so you are right to follow them.

"…Okay, Master."

Yuan Hong didn't expect that he would be so decisive, so he hesitated and agreed.

The two of them were in tandem.

Return quickly the way you came.

Along the way, Yuan Hong hesitated to speak several times, but when he saw his master's figure like smoke, he almost never stopped, so he had no choice but to swallow back the words that came to his lips.

Until we entered the ancient town.

It finally had a chance.

"Master, here are the fruits you just picked."

Yuan Hong took off a cloth bag and handed it over carefully.

Looking at the bag of bright red wild fruits, Chen Yulou was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly came to his senses.

It seems that I did say something in order to push it away before.

"Okay, let me try it."

I picked a few and threw them into my mouth, took a bite, and a sweet and sour juice suddenly bloomed on the tip of my tongue. It tasted a bit like cherry tomatoes, but it was even sweeter.

"It tastes good."

Originally, I woke up early to practice and explore the path, so I didn’t eat much.

Now that a few wild fruits were in his stomach, it actually made him feel like he had a big appetite.

"There are them all on both sides of the valley. If the owner likes it, I will pick some more later."

Seeing this, Yuan Hong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He said with a grin.

"We'll talk about it when we get down the mountain."

Chen Yulou nodded.

While talking, he grabbed a handful of wild fruits from the bag and walked through the ancient town. When he arrived at the camp, people were waking up one after another.

Briefly explain the situation.

The group of people didn't dare to hesitate and immediately got busy.

Pack your luggage, feed your horses, and light a fire to cook.

The whole camp smelled like fireworks.

In less than half an hour, everyone who had eaten and drank enough was on their way again.

Pass Longtan and go down the mountain along the creek.

Longtan Village is built on the mountain and lives by the water. ,

Yi and Han people live together in the village. At a glance, there are about thirty or forty households, most of which are two-story stilted buildings.

Because there were caravans passing by all year round, the mountain people were very familiar with the practice of bartering for goods, and they did not have much hostility towards them, so they warmly invited them to come into the village to exchange goods.

but.

Chen Yulou was anxious to catch up with the caravan in front.

In addition, in the team, apart from open weapons and food, there is no material in exchange.

He politely declined their offer to sell their goods.

I asked about the team from the side again.

really.

Just as he guessed, it was the Shiping Merchant Gang.

However, the Shiping Merchant Gang was not managed by one household, but by countless people from Shiping who traveled westward, relying on their shoulders and backs to create a behemoth in hundreds of years.

In addition, Shiping goes to the west because the products sold are different.

As a result, four major branches were formed: Tea Gang, Salt Gang, Tobacco Gang and Department Store Gang. These people were collectively called the Shiping Merchant Gang.

According to the people in the village, that team was engaged in the tea business.

They collected and sold wild mountain tea in various parts of southern Yunnan and returned to Zhenyue, the ancestral home of the Shiping merchant gang. They processed it into tea cakes, and then peddled it to toasts from various places along the Tea Horse Road.

It is worth mentioning that.

The world-famous Pu'er tea was cultivated by people from the Shiping merchant gang.

It also makes Zhenyue the core producing area of ​​the six major Pu'er tea mountains.

Thank you to the people of Longtan Village.

Chen Yulou and his party hurriedly followed the road they pointed to and headed east.

Follow the map route.

From Longtanzhai to Lucheng, you need to go around a long route, which takes about three to five days.

but.

Just follow what these guys say.

It is estimated that the trip can be shortened by half at least.

After galloping all the way, they finally caught up with the caravan more than two hours later.

Horse hooves are like thunder on the mountain road.

The team in front had already noticed it.

Especially seeing that they had strong soldiers and horses, and were full of banditry, they stopped setting up their defenses early. Each one of them looked like they were facing a powerful enemy, holding knives and guns, thinking of using the natural dangers in the mountains to stop them.

Seeing this situation, Chen Yulou couldn't understand why.

This clearly regarded them as bandits who robbed goods.

Immediately waved the team to stop.

Then he rode forward himself.

He is dressed in a green shirt, and because he holds a high position, his Qi nourishes his body, and he has an outstanding temperament.

He also has the ability to spit out lotus flowers.