In the Ganquan Palace, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty held the stone fence with both hands, his figure had become more and more rickety, his silver hair was blowing wildly in the wind, and his eyes were already a little cloudy, looking indifferently in the direction of Chang'an City.

"How long has Zhang Anshi been there?" Emperor Wu of Han's voice was less majestic than before, and more lonely, and his voice was not loud and just fell into the ears of Huo Yan behind him.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's been almost two hours." Huo Yan stepped forward and took two steps, and then whispered.

Huo Yan still doesn't understand what happened, but he just thinks that it will definitely not be a trivial matter to be implicated with the prime minister. At the same time, he was also a little worried in his heart, after all, Gongsun He and the three Wei brothers were quite close. Since the death of the general, Wei Yan inherited the title of Marquis of Changping under the operation of Princess Pingyang, and these three brothers are considered Huo Yan's elders, and they usually take care of him a lot, if the Wei brothers are involved because of Gongsun He, this is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the entire Wei Huo family.

At this moment, Emperor Wu of Han was anxious, Huo Yan was also restless, he didn't know what to do? He really hoped that his second uncle was still in Chang'an, or that he could return to Chang'an now and ask the woman who lived in the depths of the Hou Mansion of Anyang.

"What? You're curious? Or are you worried about something? Emperor Wu of Han seemed to feel the change in Huo Heng's mood behind him, and suddenly asked Huo Yan without warning.

"This ..... Chen was just a little curious..... "Huo Yan was a little flustered when asked by Emperor Wu of Han, although he was quite favored by Emperor Wu of Han, but after all, he was only a teenager, and he was facing this generation of male masters, the gap between the two was not at the same level at all, every time he was alone with Emperor Wu of Han, Huo Yan felt a little out of breath.

"Your uncle is much calmer at your age." Emperor Wu of Han leaned sideways slightly, leaned on the fence with one hand, and said to Huo Huan.

Huo Yan buried his head lower when he heard this, and then replied: "Your Majesty's lesson is that the minister is too far worse than his uncle!" ”

"It's enough for this big man to have one Huo Guang....." Emperor Wu of Han didn't know if he was saying it to Huo Xian, or talking to himself. Huo Yan only felt that he couldn't continue this!

The conversation between the two monarchs and ministers ended like this, Huo Yan felt that it was really uncomfortable in front of the emperor, and Emperor Wu of Han felt that now he didn't even have a person around him who could really talk to him, and every time he couldn't help but think of Huo Guang who was far away in the Western Regions.

When Jiang Chong returned to Chang'an and detained Prime Minister Gongsun He by the emperor's will, the whole of Chang'an became ready for rain. Gongsun He's front foot was taken to prison, and then Liu Quyu and Zhang Anshi really dug up a puppet made of paulownia wood in the place mentioned in the report file, and the puppet was really engraved with the word Liu Che.

The paulownia puppets were buried under several passages in and out of Chang'an, and after arriving at the site, Zhang Anshi carefully surveyed the foundation slabs and soil, and found that there were no signs of recent groundbreaking.

The case of witch Gu is not the first time in the Han Wu Dynasty, the earliest one happened to Chen Ajiao, the first queen of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which directly caused the queen to be deposed.

When the witch puppet was presented to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, thousands of men and troops entered Chang'an, and hundreds of people related to Prime Minister Gongsun He were arrested and imprisoned, including Gongsun Jingsheng, who had just been released for less than half a month. Chang'an City was even more noisy for a while, and the once bustling Chang'an City was now rarely pedestrians even in broad daylight.

At this time, in Bowang Garden, the prince gathered all his henchmen, and Gongsun He's arrest Liu Ji also panicked, and now it can be said that there are no owners of the six gods.

"Young Master, now that the prime minister has been arrested, how should Lone deal with himself?" Liu Ju asked Shi De helplessly.

Gongsun He is Wei Qing's backer and biggest help to Liu Ju's nephew, when Liu Ju lost Gongsun He, he didn't even discuss with the courtiers in the Xuanshu Hall as usual, without this prime minister, Liu Ju didn't know if he could face the Manchu Dynasty as calmly as usual!

"The minister thinks that the most important thing at the moment is to find out the cause of the matter, if the prime minister did not do the witchcraft, he should clarify the matter as soon as possible, the longer the matter drags on, I am afraid that the more people will be involved, and it will eventually be unfavorable to the prince." Shi De is Liu Ju's real confidant, and he is also wholeheartedly assisting the prince, at this time he is still thinking about how to help Liu Ju keep Gongsun He and keep the prime minister's power.

"No..... Father, Gongsun He was personally ordered by His Majesty to arrest him. And now it's not only the people who are in charge of this matter, but the emperor's grandfather has also used Liu Quyu, doesn't my father understand the meaning? At this time, my father should act as if nothing happened, continue to do what you should do as the prince of the prison country, and even make a gesture of distancing himself from Gongsun He. That's the only way to benefit your father! If my father intervenes in it, it will easily fall into the eyes of those who have a heart, and the deeper he falls, the deeper the disaster will be......"

When Shi De asked the prince to investigate the matter, Liu Jin eagerly admonished. He has a completely different view from Shi De, who wants the prince to keep Gongsun He as much as possible, which is tantamount to being unwilling to give up the existing power. And Liu Jin's meaning is to completely leave the relationship with Gongsun He and leave everything to Liu Quyu and Jiang Chong to investigate. In Liu Jin's view, as long as the prince's virtue is not lost and he does not leave a handle for those who have a heart, even if there is no Gongsun He and the support of the prime minister's forces, he is still the unshakable prince and the emperor of the future Han Dynasty.

"After all, Gongsun He is Gu's uncle, and he has always been loyal to Gu, we still have to think of a way, if we stay out of the matter, it will inevitably make people feel chilling......" Liu Ji thought about it and still felt that Shi De's words made sense, he was the prince and couldn't let those who were loyal to him chill.

"Alas..... Father will only fall deeper and deeper into the ....." Liu Jin said with a sad look, and he also wanted to persuade his crown prince's father.

"Jin'er, you are still young, there are some things you still can't understand, your first child is about to be born, go and accompany Weng Su more!" Liu Ju waved his hand and said.

"Alas..... Sons and daughters retire! Liu Jin sighed again, and then said no more, he knew that his father would not listen to him again.

Outside Bowang Garden, Liu Xijun, the princess of Jiangdu, was also waiting anxiously, and when she saw Liu coming in and out, she greeted her and asked eagerly, "How is it?" ”

"Don't say it, my father's vision is still too short-sighted, and they have already decided to intervene in this matter..... I'm afraid disaster is not far off! Liu Jin said with a depressed face, when he and Liu Xijun first knew that the prime minister was involved in the witch case, they invariably thought that it was necessary to keep the prince out of the matter, so they came here to dissuade the prince, but now it seems that the development of things is just contrary to their ideas.

"Now we have to go to the Marquis of Anyang's mansion, and there may be a way to ask Aunt Tang." Liu Xijun naturally thought of the woman who lived in the Hou Mansion, and at this time they could only go to Huo Tang for help.

"That's all, go now!" Liu Jin nodded and agreed, in his opinion, Chang'an is currently capable, and the only one who can help them may be the Marquis of Anyang.

Just when Gongsun He was imprisoned, countless people were involved in the witch case. In the backyard of the Hou Mansion, Huo Tang gently pushed open the window, looking at the cloudy Chang'an sky outside the window, with a strange smile on his face that had not appeared for many years.

There was excitement and anticipation in that smile, and a hint of madness, just like when the Nanyue Palace was burned that year!

"The secret sentinels around the Hou Mansion have been investigated?" Huo Tang looked at the sky and said suddenly, behind her, a maid standing with her hands bowed her head respectfully, and after hearing Huo Tang's question, she solemnly took out a piece of letterhead from her arms.

"Miss Hui's words, all the investigations have been clear, they have all been recorded, and none of them have been missed." The maid bowed her head and held up the letterhead respectfully.

Huo Tang withdrew his smile, turned around calmly, and took the letterhead in the maid's hand casually, she didn't look at the content on it, and directly put it into the cuff.

"Ready, I'm going to go out of town." Huo Tang gave an order, and the maid stepped back and went to prepare the carriage and horses, while Huo Tang walked out of his small courtyard and walked towards Huo Guang's study.

When Liu Jin and Liu Xijun's car was about to approach the Hou Mansion, Huo Tang also drove out of the Hou Mansion in a carriage and headed out of the city. When Liu Jin and Liu Xijun came to the Hou Mansion, they were told that Huo Tang was no longer in the mansion, and then the two could only return dejectedly.

As soon as Huo Tang's carriage left the Hou Mansion, two horsemen followed far behind. However, these two seemingly ordinary caravans encountered all kinds of unexpected troubles shortly after leaving the city, either they sat down and hit the old man, or they were startled by passing ox carts.

"Miss, where are we going?" When the car drove out of Chang'an for ten miles, Huo Tang's personal maid on the wheel asked in a low voice.

"Go to Jiawutai." Huo Tang's voice came out of the carriage without any waves.

An hour later, the carriage stopped at the foot of the hill at Jiawutai, which had been inaccessible all year round, except for a sheep's intestine path that barely looked like a path winding up.

"Wait for me here." Huo Tang stepped out of the carriage and instructed the coachman and the maid.

At this moment, she is holding a bamboo cane in her hand, one end of the bamboo cane is on the ground, it seems to be just an ordinary bamboo cane used to climb the mountain.

Although the maid and the coachman had some doubts in their hearts, they bowed their heads respectfully. Both of them are old men from the Hou Mansion, and their loyalty has already gone through countless postgraduate examinations.

Huo Tang walked very slowly on the mountain road, not because she was physically weak, but because she had never been here before, and seemed to be looking for a way. After a long time, Huo Tang finally saw a cliff behind a stone mountain.

Isolated between two peaks, this cliff is like a single-plank bridge between the two mountains, forming a single road connecting the two peaks, flanked by bottomless cliffs.

"This is it..... Did the two brothers walk through here back then? Huo Tang looked at the strange terrain in front of him, and a happy smile appeared on his face.

"Who?" Just as Huo Tang was about to step on the cliff, two people with long swords appeared from behind the boulder opposite. The two pointed at Huo Tang and asked with a wary expression.

"Huh..... Sure enough, as the second brother said, it hasn't changed after so many years. The smile on Huo Tang's face became brighter and brighter, and he thought silently in his heart.

"The Marquis of Anyang of the Great Han, the Metropolitan Governor Huo Guangte has come to visit the Pavilion Master and the three elders." Huo Tang shouted loudly to the other side, but it was Huo Guang's name.

"Wait a minute." The samurai on the other side responded.

It's really Huo Guang's reputation is too loud, in fact, everyone here knows that it is because Huo Quzhi and Huo Guang brothers came to Jiawutai many years ago, and since then they have disappeared from the secret pavilion, and even the killer business is no longer done.

Soon Huo Tang appeared in a valley lined with palaces and pavilions, although he had already known the existence of this place from Huo Guang's mouth, but when he really saw the scene in front of him, Huo Tang was still surprised in his heart.

"How is it a woman? Why did you use Huo Guang's name? In the main hall of the Dark Pavilion, an old man with gray hair looked at Huo Tang suspiciously and asked.

This person is the star elder among the three elders that Huo Guang saw back then, and now he is the pavilion master of the new generation of the Dark Pavilion, and the two elders of the previous generation of the old pavilion master and the sun and moon have been dead for many years, and the current three elders of the sun, moon and star have been replaced by three middle-aged people in their forties.

"It's my brother." Huo Tang said with an elegant smile on his face, but he replied very simply.

"Oh? The girl is Huo Tang? The pavilion master's expression changed slightly, and he looked at Huo Tang curiously.

"It's the little woman." Huo Tang replied with a smile still on his face.

"I wonder what the girl is doing here?" Although Huo Tang is a woman, she makes the pavilion master dare not underestimate it in the slightest. Their secret pavilion disciples are all over the world, and they also have their own news network, and the woman in front of them really makes people can't despise and slack it in the slightest.

Huo Tang looked at the pavilion master with interest, his gaze swept over the three elders of the sun, moon and star, and finally his gaze fell on the hands of a dark pavilion disciple.

"Can I borrow your pavilion sword?" Huo Tang's gaze fell on the long sword in the hands of the disciples of the Dark Pavilion, and finally looked at the Pavilion Master and asked.

When Huo Tang looked at the pavilion master, she held the bamboo cane in her hand horizontally in front of her with one hand, and added, "Cut it." ”

The pavilion master was a little puzzled, looked at the bamboo cane in Huo Tang's hand, and nodded at the disciple after a while. Seeing the pavilion master nodding, the disciple walked in front of Huo Tang with a sword, and then his arm moved, his wrist trembled slightly, only to see a cold light flashing, Huo Tang didn't see clearly how this person came out of the sword, only felt that the bamboo cane in his hand shook slightly.

Huo Tang's eyes fell on the bamboo cane, and found that a neat and thin incision had appeared in the middle of the bamboo cane. At this time, the Dark Pavilion Pavilion Master, the three elders, and the disciple who had just drawn the sword had already looked at the bamboo cane in Huo Tang's hand with a surprised expression.

Under normal circumstances, the bamboo cane will definitely become two sections when it is cut off, and the other section should fall naturally without force. Now the bamboo cane has broken into two pieces but has not fallen, indicating that there is still something inside.

"Good swordsmanship!" Huo Tang looked at the disciple who had drawn the sword and praised casually. Then, under the curious gaze of several people, his other hand rested on the other end of the bamboo cane, and the palm of his hand slid as if pulling out the scabbard of a sword, and the half of the bamboo cane was removed.

Soon the bamboo cane was taken down by Huo Tang, and a strange blade as black as ink and like a sword and ruler appeared in her hand. When they saw the things in Huo Tang's hand, everyone's expressions, including the Dark Pavilion Master, changed wildly, and even their breathing became noticeably short.

"Sure enough..... Sure enough, it was him.... How many years..... The old man can finally see each other again in this life..... Die without regrets....." The Pavilion Master of the Dark Pavilion trembled with excitement, his lips were a little unfavorable, and he said incoherently.

The thing in Huo Tang's hand can be said to have been deeply reflected in the souls of the people in their dark pavilion, even if they forget their name, they will not forget this thing, even their generations have exhausted hundreds of years, and the mission of thousands of people is to find this thing in Huo Tang's hands in their lives.

"I guess you've known for a long time, my brother has a mysterious teacher, right? All of this is self-evident, and I believe you should have guessed what is going on! Huo Tang looked at these people of the Mo family who were already excited, and suddenly said a vague sentence.

Huo Tang's words made the pavilion master and the three elders come back to their senses slightly, and then the four of them looked at each other for a moment, and everyone nodded lightly. It is no secret that there is a mysterious teacher in Huo Guang, and even the Dark Pavilion has long guessed that which mysterious and erudite old man in Huo Guang's mouth is very likely to be the long-disappeared leader of the Mo family.

"The order of the big man is out, and the ink man listens to the order!" Seeing the expressions of the pavilion masters, Huo Tang suddenly raised the Momei Sword in his hand with one hand and said as if giving orders to everyone in the hall.

The pavilion master and the three elders hesitated for a moment, but it was only after a moment, the three of them bowed down in unison and bowed to the Momei Sword in Huo Tang's hand: "Welcome back to the giant!" ”

The pavilion master bowed to the three elders, and the remaining dark pavilion disciples in the hall also bowed to the Momei sword. He shouted respectfully: "Welcome back to the giant." ”

There has always been a saying in the Dark Pavilion that when the giants return one day, they can return to the identity of the Ink Collector, and they will no longer have to exist in the form of the Dark Pavilion. Being born again as an ink artist is the most desired thing in the hearts of all latent ink practitioners, and it is also the most noble ideal in their hearts.

Once the high-level of the Dark Pavilion also fantasized that if the news was reliable, then Anyang Hou Huoguang was very likely to be the successor of the previous generation of giants, that is, the successor of Juziling. Now Huo Guang sits on the territory of thousands of miles in Hexi and the Western Regions, with more than 100,000 soldiers under his command, and with this as a basis, the ink masters can be born openly and without scruples, so when Huo Tang took out the Juzi Order, including the Dark Pavilion Pavilion, they actually did not exclude it, and even had some faint expectations in their hearts!

When Huo Tang's words of 'the order of the great son is issued, and the ink person listens to the order' came out, everyone in the hall understood that their identity as the ink master, who had disappeared for a hundred years, had finally returned. And with the rebirth of the ink master, it also indicates that this era of deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism is about to end in the near future!