The river in Twin Bridge Town was not far from town. Chen Miao followed the others and reached it in less than ten minutes.
From a distance, Chen Miao spotted Twin Bridge Town's landmark: two bridges built side by side!
Twin Bridge Town had taken its name from those two bridges.
Before it became a town, Twin Bridge Town had been a village.
Back then, the river had separated the villagers from the opposite bank. Going around meant a detour of at least an hour; otherwise, they had to take a ferry across. Yet despite the river being barely a dozen meters wide, a round trip was expensive. If ordinary people took the ferry to work their fields on the other side, their harvest would be worth less than the fares they paid. Eventually, some wealthy household had taken the lead in pooling funds and hiring craftsmen to build these two stone bridges side by side. They had not built two bridges because the villagers had money to spare. Rather, the bridge builders had said that if they wanted the bridges to last and remain untouched by the things in the water, this was how they had to be built. The villagers knew nothing about such matters and could only follow the craftsmen's advice. In the end, they had paid twice as much to build the pair of bridges. But just as the craftsmen had promised, decades-even a century-had passed since their construction without a single incident on them. The bridges had even played a part in Twin Bridge Village eventually becoming a town.
It was said that when the Great Xia Government sent officials out to select villages for promotion to towns, they spotted the two stone bridges upon reaching Twin Bridge Town. They immediately approved its promotion.
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