Li Xiaoxin didn't want to take him in, she also wanted to see Hu Jue from time to time after all, but after all, it was difficult to disobey the rules, so she reluctantly walked in front of Hu Jue, and smiled warmly: "I can't do anything, outsiders can't enter without the permission of the palace master, please understand." I just don't know if you have any urgent matters, can you tell one or two, if I can do it, I will do the work. ”

Hu Jue smiled happily, he didn't want to hide anything from Li Xiaoxin in his heart, and when he heard that she could do it for him, it was the best way at the moment, so he nodded and said, "How can I hide it from the girl, we went in to ...... it."

Shi Xian hurriedly went up and grabbed Hu Jue, and said softly: "Hu Yin, this matter can be described as an extremely important matter for this sect, and the sect leader has instructed to pursue it closely. If it leaks out, something goes wrong, we will die!"

Hu Jue was stunned, shook his senses, paused a little, and said with a smile: "The sect leader strictly ordered, it is difficult to tell each other at the next moment, after this matter, I will personally discuss it with the girl in detail, and I don't dare to bother the girl about the current matter, and say goodbye!" turned around and left.

Li Xiaoxin knew that he also had difficulties, so she didn't complain about her, and watched Hu Jue and the others go a little way, turned around and stepped into the checkpoint. Ah Ge is also very sympathetic to Li Xiaoxin, after all, after such a parting, it is impossible to say whether the two will have a chance to meet again.

Li Xiaoxin continued to walk forward, her face full of gloom. Entering this level is the area of Jiujia Town, only to see a majestic snowy ancient peak towering among the clouds, and the peak is covered in silver and shining. The small hanging water waterfall flows straight down for thousands of miles, magnificent and vigorous, shocking to the heart. The ancient tea forests all over the mountains are lush and green, and countless parrots swirl around the mountains and return to the forest.

The houses in Jiujia Town are scattered and orderly, and they are very prosperous. Although it is a town, it is as prosperous as Pu'er City, Pu'er Prefecture. There were one hundred and ten caravans in the Camellia Palace, eighty in the big ones, each with three or four hundred horses, and thirty in the small ones, with one or two hundred horses. It is the most powerful horse gang sect in the Nanzhao Kingdom to the present day, with more than 10,000 people in the Ma Gang alone, and 16,700 people in addition to the disciples of the Camellia Palace. The horses and people of these caravans all live in this Jiujia Town, which can be imagined. It is rich in good tea, and there is the protection of the Camellia Palace, the economy is prosperous, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, which can be regarded as a pure land in the chaotic and complicated times.

Li Xiaoxin's group entered the town and rested at a teahouse. The main street is paved with white marble slabs, and two small streams flow on both sides, which are clear and transparent, elegant and clean. Ancient tea trees are planted next to the creek, and it is the camellia season, the whole town is wrapped in beautiful red and white camellias, and every time the breeze blows, the fragrance of camellia is fragrant, and the people are intoxicated. The small shops on both sides are doing brisk business, with people coming in and out, and it is very lively. Yi warriors patrol the streets to ensure the safety and well-being of this place. There are also many farmers who are busy picking tea in the mountains, and the tea leaves collected will be handed over to the tea collection points under the Camellia Palace, and the tea making field of the Camellia Palace will be screened and refined to make a variety of famous teas, among which the most elegant refined Pu'er tea "Lianqing Huifu" that was famous in all directions at that time was from the hands of the Camellia Palace. These teas were then transported to all parts of the country by the caravans of the Camellia Palace, and many of them also flowed to Tianzhu and other foreign countries through the ancient tea horse road.

Li Xiaoxin and the five of them rested for a while, and learned that two strange people broke into Jiujia Town this morning, killed several samurai and slipped into the mountains and forests. Li Xiaoxin left the rest of the women who accompanied her in the town, and led Ah Ge and the other four people to climb the mountain along the path. She has been strictly guarding Liu Tingting on her back, and no one dares to ask what it is if she doesn't say anything about the rest. The more the five of them walked, the path became more and more rugged, with a cliff on the right, and an ancient stream meandering down the cliff. On the left is the lush ancient tea tree, and the fragrance of tea is intoxicating. The five of them went up to the top of a small mountain, and what appeared in front of them was like a fairyland. A waterfall on the right side diverts straight down a thousand feet, and the clouds and mist swirl around the waist of the waterfall, which is extremely beautiful. The ancient trees on both sides of the waterfall are verdant and green, and the shadows are fragrant. An immeasurable length of a rope bridge stretches from the summit over a waterfall to a village, and this bridge is called the ascending bridge. The dense fog under the bridge is enchanting, and it is an unfathomable broken valley. The village at the head of the bridge looms in the clouds, like a dreamlike fairy palace.

The summit they reached had a stable with several women who took care of the horses. When the people of the Camellia Palace come here, they must dismount and leave their horses here, and they must not ride across the rope bridge. Ah Shen led the horses of five people and left, and walked to the rope bridge together, and a gust of breeze came to his face, with a burst of floral fragrance. The clouds and mist swirl around the body, and people can't help but feel like they have ascended to immortality, and they seem to have turned into a fairy who floats in the air and dances clouds.

The five of them walked for a long time, and through the fog, the village at the head of the bridge gradually became clearly visible. The village is located in a flat mountainside, surrounded by ancient trees, birds singing and flowers, flowing water, showing bamboo sandwich road, winding through the secluded Rao, quiet white mist slowly rising around, rising even the clouds, a good fairyland on earth. The houses in the village are neatly arranged and are thousands of villages. There is a flat place protruding a few meters at the back of the village, where a magnificent and solemn palace group is located, and the big flat engraved with "Camellia Palace" in the middle of the hall is shining with golden light. From a distance, the Camellia Palace and Qianjiazhai appear to be staggered and orderly, which also shows the domineering and majesty of the "Camellia Palace".

The five of them walked for nearly half an hour before they arrived at the bridgehead, and there was a piece of white and transparent marble erected at the bridgehead, engraved with the words "Qianjiazhai". The five people walked into the village, which was much quieter than Jiujia Town, and the pedestrians would smile and salute when they saw the five people passing by. Five people came to the gate of the Camellia Palace at the back of the village, the gate is made of white and transparent marble, more than ten zhang high, eight or nine zhang wide, and a huge jade beam on the top is engraved with three golden characters of "Camellia Palace". It is said that this jade beam is the Kunlun jade that was transported by the ten horse gangs of the Camellia Palace to the Kunlun Mountain in Tubo for tens of thousands of bags of Pu'er tea, which took half a year. When the five of them entered the gate, there was a wide square, where thousands of Yi women practiced martial arts. Their husbands were all members of the Camellia Palace, and the women stayed at home to practice martial arts, relying on them to maintain the safety and peace of the place while the men were running horses. Therefore, most of the martial arts in the Camellia Palace are women, and if something happens to the Ma Gang, they will arrive as soon as possible. If it is found that the sect is responsible, then the sect will generally be completely destroyed, and there will be no place to turn over. Therefore, almost no one dares to provoke the horse gang of the Camellia Palace when they walk the rivers and lakes, and no one dares to rob it. This time, Li Xiaoxin's five people went out of the mountain to track down the disappearance of the previous two horse gangs, and when they came back this time, no one knew which gang would be wiped out.

The five of them crossed the square and walked into a grand hall facing the square, and a beautiful woman wearing a beautiful Yi costume and a ribbon on her chest went out to greet her.

Li Xiaoxin and the five of them greeted him and saluted: "See the eldest sister." ”

The woman smiled and said, "Don't be polite, hurry up and go into the hall to rest." He turned and entered the hall. This person is Chen Ran, the eldest disciple of the Camellia Palace, the eldest sister of Li Xiaoxin and others, and one of the most powerful assistants of the palace master of the Camellia Palace, and the second is Li Xiaoxin. Chen Ran's internal strength in martial arts is much higher than Li Xiaoxin's, but he is not as good as Li Xiaoxin in terms of wisdom and united front, and the two complement each other and are very valued by the master of the Camellia Palace. Because Chen Ran followed the Camellia Palace Master first, she deserved to be the eldest sister. The maid made the best Pu'er tea for the six of them, and Li Xiaoxin looked at the empty jade carved chair in the east of the hall. asked, "Eldest sister, where is the palace master?"

Chen Ran said: "The palace master went to the top of the mountain, saying that he was a little restless in the past few days, and went to see the thousand-year-old tea tree king to breathe." ”

Li Xiaoxin nodded and drank tea. She knew that the palace master appreciated the tea king, and the Guantian Realm did not want to be disturbed, and at the same time, without the permission of the palace master, no one was allowed to enter the tea king's holy land, including Chen Ran and her.

Chen Ran saw that Li Xiaoxin had been carrying the backpack on her back, and asked puzzledly: "Second sister, what are you carrying on your back, why don't you put it down?"

Li Xiaoxin said: "Eldest sister, let's wait for the palace master to come back, I also feel restless, most likely it won't be a good thing." ”

Chen Ran saw that Li Xiaoxin was so serious, it was inconvenient to ask, and asked again: "Okay, what clues can be found in this visit to investigate the disappearance of the sixty and eighty-two horse gangs." ”

Li Xiaoxin nodded and said, "This matter was done by the Elder Sect. "The head church of the Elder Sect is located in Tengchong Prefecture, and it is also the rising star of the Tea Horse Gang, especially in the past few years in Dayi Ningguo, which has grown rapidly, and it can be said that it is second only to the Tea Horse Sect of the Camellia Palace in the Tea Horse Gang Sect. It is mainly to purchase Tengchong Prefecture, Lincang County in various places in the territory of tea processing and sales, the number of caravans reached more than 70, each caravan has more than 100 horses, the number of caravans of more than 5,000 people. Compared with the strength of the Camellia Palace, it is incomparable.

The four of them didn't find out that Li Xiaoxin had found the clue, and she didn't tell them all the way. When I said this, I was a little unhappy.

Chen Ran said: "This religion and the Qijiao have always been that the well water does not interfere with the river water, how can it be the Qijiao's doing?"

Li Xiaoxin seemed to have reservations, shook her head and said: "I don't know the reason for this, but it is true that the Elder Sect did it." And the Qijiao also hired a Tubo master to intercept and kill us, if not...... "She wanted to say that if it wasn't for the Qiankun Sect Hu Yin's envoy to rescue her, she would not be able to escape back, but she didn't want more people to know that Hu Jue had violated the rules of the Qiankun Sect, so she stopped talking."

Chen Ran asked, "What is it?"

Ah Ge misunderstood Li Xiaoxin's intention and thought that she was embarrassed to say, so he replied: "If it weren't for the Qiankun Sect Qianyin to help Hu Jue, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to come back." When Li Xiaoxin heard her say it, she was unwilling, but she was helpless, so she just gave Ah Ge a cold look. However, Ah Ge was busy looking at Chen Ran and didn't notice her reaction.

Chen Ran stood up in surprise and said, "Qiankun Sect?" Then he stabilized his emotions again, and said in confusion: "The Qiankun Sect has never set foot in the rivers and lakes, and it only asks about sectarian disputes. As a Qianyin envoy, how could Hu Jue violate the canons and help you?"