马帮他们跑腿，厨房菜园使他们健康而营养充足。

A horse takes them on errands, and a kitchen garden helps keep them well fed.

由于矿产地没有公路，马帮是唯一连接外界的运输组织。

Due to the lack of road, the horse group becomes the only transporting organization to connect with the outside world.

斗转星移，如今，偶尔还可以遇上马帮，听到清脆的马铃声。

Today, occasionally, you may still see a caravan passing by and hear the clear jingling of horse bells.

此时是早上的六点左右，马帮是在昨夜赶路，爬山涉水来到这个最近的、公路的转运站。

It is about six on the morning, Horse gang hurried along in the last night, climbing the mountain and arriving at this recent transfer station which can pass the road.

当古桥活到现在它已经不是真正意义上的桥了，桥下的清流早已随着马帮而逝。

While the clear stream under the bridge ran dry in the time of the horse caravans, the soul of the bridge has been lost as well.