Shen Du, 28 years old, was a route planning engineer for a modern logistics company. When he woke up, he became an injured person of unknown origin on the Tangluo Road in the Qinling Mountains.
The old porter who rescued him was named Geng Youtian. He had been on this road for twenty-three years, and every step was based on experience. But Shen Du could only take one look at the mountain and know which section of the road would collapse and when he had to cross the cliff. This ability made him both a strange person and an outlier among the porters.
The northwest trade route during the Jiaqing period was a network built with feet, blood, and human feelings. Huizhou merchant Wang Chongshan was the first to smell the value of Shendu and asked him to be a "road scout". Liu Heizi, the leader of the gang, regarded him as an outsider who broke the rules. Old Gengtou stood silently in the middle. He killed two brothers twenty years ago due to lack of information. Now looking at the road map drawn by Shen Du, he felt for the first time that the road might be different.
From Qinling Mountains to Weihe River, from Tongguan to Fenglingdu, from Hedong Yanchi to Luoyang Canal - Shendu walked all the way, painted all the way, and encountered obstacles along the way.
His attempt to establish a "road condition report" touched the interests of the station system. He helped the disaster area plan relief routes and got involved in officialdom. He wanted to replace favors with efficiency, but found that favors themselves were also costs. He came with the arrogance of modern people, but on this ancient road, he learned step by step to wait, learn to compromise, and learn to change the small area of the world that he could change when he could not change the system.
