In Ganquan Palace, Emperor Wu of Han held the stone fence with both hands. His figure became more and more hunched, and his head of silver hair was blowing randomly in the wind. His already turbid eyes looked indifferently at the direction of Chang'an City.

"How long has Zhang Anshi been gone?" Emperor Wu of Han's voice was less majestic and more lonely. His voice was not loud and fell into Huo Xian's ears behind him.

"It's almost two hours back to your Majesty." Huo Xian stepped forward and took two steps, then said in a low voice.

Huo Xian still doesn't understand what happened, but he just thought that it would be impossible to be a trivial matter to be involved with the Prime Minister. At the same time, he was also a little worried. After all, Gongsun He and the three brothers of Wei were quite close. Since the death of the general, Wei Kang inherited the throne of Changping under the operation of Princess Pingyang. These three brothers are Huo Xian's elders and are often concerned about him. If the Wei brothers are involved because of Gongsun He, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the entire Wei Huo family.

At this moment, Emperor Wu of Han was anxious and Huo Xian 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 deep in the Anyang Marquis' Mansion.

"What? Are you very curious? Or are you worried about?" Emperor Wu of Han seemed to feel the change in Huo Xian's mood behind him, and suddenly asked Huo Xian without any warning.

"This... I'm just a little curious..." Huo Xian was a little panicked when asked by Emperor Wu of Han. Although he was quite favored by Emperor Wu of Han, he was only in his teens after all, and he was facing this generation of heroes. The difference between the two was not at the same level. Every time he got along alone with Emperor Wu of Han, Huo Xian felt a little breathless.

"Your uncle is much more calm at your age." Emperor Wu of Han sided slightly, held it on the fence with one hand, and said to Huo Xian.

Huo Xian buried his head lower after hearing this, and then replied: "Your Majesty taught me a lesson that I am far worse than my uncle!"

"This great man has a Huo Guang..." Emperor Wu of Han was talking to Huo Xian or talking to himself. Huo Xian only felt that he could not continue this sentence!

The conversation between the king and his minister ended without a trace. Huo Xian felt that it was really uncomfortable in front of the emperor, while Emperor Wu of Han felt that there was not even a person around him who could really talk to him. Every time he could not 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 with the emperor's will, the whole of Chang'an became storm. Gongsun He was taken to prison for the front feet, and then Liu Quqi and Zhang Anshi really dug up a doll made of paulownia in the place mentioned in the report file, and the word Liu Che was actually engraved on the doll.

The Tongmu doll was buried under several roads entering and leaving Chang'an. After arriving at the location, Zhang Anshi carefully inspected the foundation stone slabs and soil. He found that there were no traces of recent earthbreaks here.

This is not the first time the witchcraft case was in the Wu Dynasty of Han Dynasty. The earliest one happened to Chen Ajiao, the first empress of Emperor Wu of Han. That time directly caused the empress to be deposed.

When the witchcraft doll was presented to Emperor Wu of Han, thousands of 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 less than half a month ago. Chang'an City was even more in a panic. Chang'an City, which was once very bustling, now there are few pedestrians even in the sun.

At this time, in Bowangyuan, the prince summoned all his confidants. Liu Ju was also panicked at the time of the arrest of Gongsun He. Now it can be said that he has no master.

"Young tutor, now that the prime minister is arrested, how should I deal with myself?" Liu Ju asked Shi De helplessly.

Gongsun He was the backer and greatest help left by Wei Qing to Liu Ju, the nephew. When Liu Ju lost Gongsun He, he did not even discuss matters with the court officials in the Xuanshi Hall as usual. Without this prime minister, Liu Ju didn't know whether he could face the civil and military officials in the court as calmly as usual!

"I think the most important thing at the moment is to find out the reason. If the Prime Minister has not performed witchcraft, he should clarify the matter as soon as possible. The longer the matter is delayed, the more people will be involved, and it will eventually be unfavorable to the prince." Shi De was Liu Ju's true confidant, and he was also devoted to assisting the prince. At this time, he was still thinking about how to help Liu Ju protect Gongsun He and the Prime Minister's power.

"No... Father, Gongsun He was personally ordered to be arrested by His Majesty. And now it is not only the Sili Captain who is responsible for this matter, but Grandpa Huang also activated Liu Qumao. Doesn't my father understand the meaning? At this time, my father should think that nothing happened. Continue to do what the prince of your country should do, and even make a gesture of clearing the relationship with Gongsun He. Only in this way will it be most beneficial to my father! If my father intervenes in it, it will easily fall into the eyes of those who are interested. The deeper the trap, the deeper the disaster will be... "

When Shi De said that the prince would investigate the matter, Liu Jin urgently advised him. He had a completely different view from Shi De. Shi De asked the prince to try his best to protect Gongsun He, which was equivalent to being unwilling to give up his existing power. Liu Jin's intention was to completely separate his relationship with Gongsun He and leave everything to Liu Qumao and Jiang Chong for investigation. In Liu Jin's view, as long as the prince's virtue is not bad, he will not leave any handle for those who are interested, even without Gongsun He and without the support of the prime minister's power, he will still be the unshakable prince and the emperor of the future Han Dynasty.

"After all, Gongsun He is Gu's uncle and has always been loyal to Gu. We still have to think of a solution. If you are out of trouble, it will inevitably make people feel disappointed..." Liu Jusi thought about it and thought that Shi De's words made sense. He was the prince and could not let those who were loyal to him feel disappointed.

"Oh... my father will only get deeper and deeper..." Liu Jin said with a heartbroken look. He also wanted to persuade his prince's father.

"Jin'er, you're still young, and you can't understand some things. Your first child is about to be born. Go and spend more time with Wengsu!" Liu Ji waved his hand and said.

"Oh... I'm leaving!" Liu Jin sighed again, and then stopped saying anything more. He knew that his father would not listen to it.

Outside Bowang Garden, Princess Liu Xijun of Jiangdu was also waiting anxiously. When she saw Liu Jin coming out, she met her and asked anxiously: "How is it?"

"Stop talking, my father's eyes are still too short-sighted. They have decided to interfere in this matter... I'm afraid the disaster will not be far away!" Liu Jin said with a depressed look on his face. When he and Liu Xijun knew that the Prime Minister was involved in a witchcraft case at the first time, they thought that the prince must be left out of the matter, so they came here to dissuade the prince. However, it seems that the development of the matter is exactly contrary to their ideas.

"Now we have to go to the Marquis Mansion of Anyang. Maybe there is a way to ask Tang Gu." Liu Xijun naturally thought of the woman who lived in the Marquis Mansion. At this time, they could only ask Huo Tang for help.

"That's all, go now!" Liu Jin nodded in agreement. In his opinion, Chang'an has the ability at present, and perhaps the only one who can help them may be the Anyang Marquis Mansion.

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

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

"Have the secret whistles around the Marquis' Mansion been investigated clearly?" Huo Tang suddenly said in his eyes at the sky. A maid standing behind her pounding her hands respectfully lowered her head. After hearing Huo Tang's question, she solemnly took out a piece of letter from her arms.

"When you say that, I have investigated everything clearly and recorded it all, and no one is missing." The maid lowered her head and raised the letter respectfully.

Huo Tang lowered his smile, turned around calmly, and took the letter from the maid's hand. She did not look at the contents on it, and directly put it into her cuffs.

"Prepare, I'm going to leave the city." Huo Tang ordered, and the maid stepped back and prepared the carriage, while Huo Tang left his courtyard and walked towards Huo Guang's study.

When Liu Jin and Liu Xijun's carriage were about to approach the Marquis' Mansion, Huo Tang also drove out of the Marquis' Mansion in a carriage and headed out of the city. When Liu Jin and Liu Xijun came to the Marquis' 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 Marquis' mansion, two riders followed him far away. However, the seemingly ordinary business trips encountered various unexpected troubles shortly after leaving the city, or they sat down and hit the old man, or were shocked by the passing ox cart.

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

"Go to Jiawutai." Huo Tang's voice came from the car without any sensation.

An hour later, the carriage stopped at the foot of Jiawutai. It was rarely visited by people all year round, with only a small path that barely looked like a small road winding up.

"You are here to wait for me." Huo Tang walked out of the carriage and ordered the coachman and maid.

At this moment, she was holding a bamboo stick in her hand, and one end of the bamboo stick was leaning on the ground, as if it was just an ordinary bamboo stick for climbing mountains and leveraging force.

Although the maid and the coachman were a little confused, they still bowed their heads respectfully. They were both old men from the Marquis’ Mansion, and their loyalty had been passed countless times.

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

The cliff wall is isolated between two peaks, like a single-plank bridge across the two mountains, forming a single road connecting the two peaks, and on both sides are bottomless cliffs.

"It's here... Did the two brothers walk here?" Huo Tang looked at the strange terrain in front of him and showed a happy smile on his face.

"Who?" Just as Huo Tang was about to step onto the cliff, two people holding long swords rushed out from the huge rock opposite. They pointed at Huo Tang's sword and asked with a look of alertness.

"Haha... As expected, it's the same as the second brother said. It hasn't changed after so many years." Huo Tang's smile became brighter and he thought silently in his heart.

"The Marquis of Anyang, the Great Han Dynasty, the Grand Governor Huo Guangte came to visit the Pavilion Master and the three elders." Huo Tang shouted loudly to the opposite side, but he was talking about Huo Guang's name.

"Please wait." The warrior opposite responded.

Huo Guang's name is really too loud. In fact, everyone here knows that it is because Huo Qubing and Huo Guang's brothers came to Jiawutai many years ago. Since then, their secret pavilion has disappeared and even the killer's business is no longer done.

Soon Huo Tang appeared in a valley full of attics and towers. Although he had already known the existence of this place from Huo Guang's mouth, when he really saw the scene in front of him, Huo Tang was still surprised.

"Why is it a woman? Why do you want to use Huo Guang's name?" In the hall of the Dark Pavilion, an old man with gray beard looked at Huo Tang in confusion and asked.

This person is the Star Elder among the three elders Huo Guang met back then. Now he is the new generation of the Dark Pavilion. The two elders, the old pavilion master and the Riyue, have long been dead for many years. Now the three elders of the Sun and Moon Star have been replaced by three middle-aged people in their forties.

"It was the acting brother who came." Huo Tang said with an elegant smile on his face, and he answered very simply.

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

"It's the little girl." Huo Tang replied with a smile.

"I don't know what the girl is saying?" Although Huo Tang was a woman, the Pavilion Master dared not underestimate him at all. Their secret pavilion disciples were all over the world and had their own news network. The woman in front of him really made people unable to be despised and neglected at all.

Huo Tang looked at the Pavilion Master with interest, his eyes swept over the three elders Sun, Moon and Star, and finally his eyes fell into the hands of a disciple of the Dark Pavilion.

"Can you use the sword weapon of the noble pavilion?" Huo Tang's eyes fell on the sword in the hands of the disciples of the Dark Pavilion, and finally looked at the head of the pavilion and asked.

When Huo Tang looked at the pavilion master, she put the bamboo stick in her hand in front of her with one hand and added: "Cut it off."

The Pavilion Master was a little puzzled, looking at the bamboo stick in Huo Tang's hand, and nodded to the disciple for a moment. Seeing the Pavilion Master nodding, the disciple walked to Huo Tang with a sword, then moved his arm and his wrist trembled slightly, and a cold light flashed by. Huo Tang didn't even see clearly how this person drew the sword. He only felt the bamboo stick in his hand shake slightly.

Huo Tang's eyes fell on the bamboo stick and found a neat and small cut in the middle of the bamboo stick. At this time, the Lord of the Dark Pavilion, the three elders, and the disciple who had just set out the sword, all looked at the bamboo stick in Huo Tang's hand with surprise.

Under normal circumstances, if the bamboo stick is cut off, it will definitely become two sections. The other section should fall naturally without force. Now that the bamboo stick has been broken into two sections but has not fallen, it means there is something inside.

"The sword technique is good!" Huo Tang looked at the disciple who was drawing the sword and praised casually. Then, under the curious eyes of several people, his other hand was placed on the other end of the bamboo stick, and his palm slid as if he had pulled out a sword sheath to remove half of the bamboo stick.

Soon the bamboo stick was taken off by Huo Tang, and a strange weapon that was as dark as ink, as if it were swords and rulers appeared in her hand. When she saw what Huo Tang was in her hand, everyone, including the Lord of the Dark Pavilion, changed their expressions, and even their breathing became obviously rapid.

"Assolutely... it's him... for many years... I can finally meet again in this life... I'm dead without regrets..." The Lord of the Dark Pavilion trembled with excitement, his lips were a little unscrupulous, and he said incoherently.

The things in Huo Tang's hands can be said to have been deeply reflected in the souls of the people in their Dark Pavilion. Even if they forget their names, they will not forget this thing. Even though their generations have spent hundreds of years, the mission of thousands of people in their lives is to find this thing in Huo Tang's hands.

"I guess you have known it a long time ago. Brother has a mysterious teacher? All of them are self-evident. I believe you should have guessed what's going on!" Huo Tang looked at these excited people from the Mo family who were no longer able to add to the point, and suddenly said a vague sentence.

Huo Tang's words made the pavilion master and the three elders come to their senses, and then the four of them looked at each other for a moment, and each nodded gently. The rumors about Huo Guang's mysterious teacher were no longer a secret, and even the Dark Pavilion had long guessed that the mysterious and knowledgeable old man in Huo Guang's mouth was most likely the long-lost leader of the Mohist family giant.

"The master ordered me to come out, and the Mo Zhu obeyed the order!" Seeing the expressions of the pavilion masters and others, Huo Tang suddenly raised the Mo Mei Sword in his hand with one hand and said like he gave orders to the people in the hall.

The Pavilion Master and the three elders hesitated for a moment, but only after that, the three of them bowed together and bowed to the Momei Sword in Huo Tang's hand: "Welcome the giant back!"

The Pavilion Master bowed to the three elders, and the remaining disciples of the Dark Pavilion in the hall bowed to Mo Meijian and shouted respectfully: "Welcome the giant back."

There has always been a saying in the Dark Pavilion that when one day the giants return, they can return to their identity as Mozhe and no longer need to exist in the form of Dark Pavilion. Being born again as Mozhe is the thing that all lurking Mozhe hope for the most, and the loftiest ideal in their hearts.

The senior officials of the Dark Pavilion once fantasized that if the news is reliable, then Huo Guang, the Marquis of Anyang, is most likely to be the successor of the previous generation of giants, that is, the successor of Juzi Ling. Now Huo Guang has a thousand-mile territory in Hexi and the Western Regions, with more than 100,000 soldiers under his command. With this basis, the Mo people can be born openly and unscrupulously. Therefore, when Huo Tang took out the Juzi Ling, he actually did not reject it, including the Master of the Dark Pavilion, and even they had some vague expectations in their hearts!
Chapter completed!