The next morning, after Li Zhiyun finished breakfast, he was practicing calligraphy in the palace when a palace maid walked in and said softly: "Son, there is a woman looking for you outside the palace." The guards wouldn't let her in, and she was crying at the door! ”

"What kind of woman?"

"A young woman."

No matter who it is, since it is here to find him, then he must go and see him. So, Li Zhiyun came to the gate of the palace and took a look from a distance, and the person who came turned out to be Liu Yinglian. It turned out that Liu Yinglian came to Taiji Palace to look for him, but the guards didn't let her in, and she was so anxious that she cried. When a guard saw her crying sadly, he felt compassion and told a passing palace maid, who went to find Li Zhiyun.

Li Zhiyun hurriedly ran over. When Liu Yinglian saw him, she was surprised and delighted, and she didn't care about the great defense of men and women, so she grabbed his hand and said, "Li Gongzi, go and save my father!" At three o'clock in the afternoon, he will be beheaded! ”

Li Zhiyun was taken aback and hurriedly said, "How can this be?" Where is he? ”

"In East City, let's go quickly!" Liu Yinglian came by carriage. She pulled Li Zhiyun into the carriage, and with a wave of the whip, the carriage drove them in the direction of Dongshi.

When he arrived in Dongshi, Li Zhiyun got out of the car and saw a large group of people surrounded by a large group of people in the open space, and a wooden platform was set up in the middle of the crowd, and on the platform kneeled a prisoner wearing prison clothes and wooden yolls, it was Liu Hong. Behind him stood two swordsmen with ghost-headed broadswords, waiting for three o'clock in the afternoon to arrive, and they were about to start slashing.

After Liu Yinglian squeezed into the crowd, she went straight to the stage, knelt there and hugged her father and cried bitterly. Li Zhiyun saw that there was a table next to the wooden platform, and there were several officials sitting there, presumably the supervising officials, so he walked over and asked, "Why did you kill Lord Liu?" Who gave the order? The officer sitting in the middle glanced at him with disdain and said, "Who are you?" Why bother with all this? ”

"I am Li Zhiyun, the son of Li Yuan."

"The son of the Tang King?" The officer looked at him, as if unconvinced.

Tigers don't make a threat when sick cats? Looking at the officials who looked like they didn't care for each other, Li Zhiyun suddenly became angry, slapped the table hard, glared and shouted, "Quickly release Lord Liu!" Otherwise, I'll let my second brother shoot you with an arrow!" Believe it or not? ”

His momentum suppressed the other party at once, and the man involuntarily stood up, and the other two also stood up. The official on the left smiled and said, "Childe, it is the order of the Tang King to behead Liu Hong, and the little ones are just errands." If you want to release Liu Hong, you need Tang Wangjun's will, please don't embarrass me. ”

It turned out to be Abba's order, this is easy to do, he went to find Abba! Li Zhiyun was about to leave, but suddenly felt inappropriate. It's almost three o'clock in the afternoon, what if they kill Liu Hong when he leaves? The head fell off, but it could never be sewn again. Just when he was embarrassed, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Fifth young master, fifth young master......"

He turned his head and saw that Yinggu had squeezed in from outside the crowd and was waving at him! When he saw it, he was overjoyed and hurriedly beckoned her to come over.

A few days ago, he went to Chai Mansion to visit the third sister, and Chai Mansion is near Dongshi, otherwise Yinggu would not have appeared here. He asked Yinggu to go back to Chai Mansion quickly and call the third sister, and he was waiting here.

At this moment, in a wine shop opposite the execution ground, Wei Yijie and Wei Xiaobao, father and son, were sitting face to face by a window along the street, looking over here.

Early this morning, Wei Xiaobao returned home and said to his father: "Li Yuan suddenly arrested Liu Hong, I heard that he will be beheaded at three o'clock in the afternoon today!" When Wei Yijie heard this, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Li Yuan why he wanted to kill Liu Hong? Wei Xiaobao shook his head and said that he didn't know the inside story.

"Father, you have a very good personal relationship with Liu Hong, why don't you intercede with Li Yuan?"

Wei Yijie pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "The situation is unclear now, you can't act rashly!" Besides, Liu Hong and I are both former ministers of the Sui Dynasty, and if I come forward, it may arouse Li Yuan's suspicion! To rescue Liu Hong, there is a person more suitable than me! ”

"You mean Li Zhiyun?"

Wei Yijie nodded. He asked his son to quickly find Liu Hong's daughter, told her that Li Zhiyun was now living in Taiji Palace, and asked her to go to Li Zhiyun to rescue his father.

said that after Aunt Ying left, about half a pillar of incense, she brought the third sister over. The three prison officials all knew the three county lords, and hurriedly bowed to her. Li Zhiyun said to the third sister: "Sister, you are staring here, I will go to Abba and beg him to release him!" The third sister nodded and said, "You go!" ”

Li Zhiyun is still a little worried. He glanced at the wooden platform, put his mouth to the third sister's ear and said, "Sister, don't let them kill people, I want to marry his daughter as the queen!" The third sister smiled and slapped him on the ass and said, "Stinky boy, with your sister here, don't you worry?" ”

Li Zhiyun then returned to Taiji Palace in a carriage, broke into the Wude Palace, and asked Abba why he wanted to kill Liu Hong?

The reason why Li Yuan wanted to kill Liu Hong was related to one thing. It is said that Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian had a dream one night that eighteen boys tore their dragon robes, and the "eighteen sons" together are not "Li"? At that time, there was still a nursery rhyme called "Peach and Plum": "Peach and plum, the flood surrounds Yangshan." Peach and plum, Mo Langyu, yellow birds fly around the mountain, like in the garden". With the spread of this ballad, the folk began to spread the proverb "Li should be the son of heaven", which is the origin of "Mingying Tu Yu".

Li Yuan happened to be "famous", only because Yang Jian's queen was his aunt, he escaped, but he left Beijing to take up a post. And Li Jincai, who was also one of the Li family in Guanlong, was wiped out.

Liu Hong was a favorite of Emperor Wen of Sui at that time, Yang Jian. Li Yuan later inquired that it was his slanderous words to Yang Jian that made Yang Jian suspicious of the Li family.

Over the years, Li Yuan has been terrified, for fear that one day he will end up in the same fate as Li Jincai.

When he was in Jinyang, Li Shimin persuaded his father to raise troops, and also borrowed the "name should be illustrated" to talk about things, saying that the Li family should fulfill the prophecy, and if the army is raised, the emperor can be accomplished, and if he sits still, he will die in the future......

Therefore, after Li Yuan captured Chang'an, he immediately wanted to kill Liu Hong to relieve the hatred in his heart for many years.

Li Zhiyun asked Abba to let Liu Hong go, but Abba just didn't agree. In desperation, he resorted to a trick, lay down on the ground, and said If you don't let Liu Hong go, I won't get up! Abba was so angry that his beard straightened: "Bastard boy, what are you doing here?" Want to threaten Abba? ……”

Soon, the grandma who learned the news rushed over. She saw that Li Zhiyun was lying on the ground and couldn't get up, so she asked him why he wanted to save Liu Hong? Li Zhiyun wanted to say that he wanted to marry his daughter as the queen, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he had to say: "When I was in trouble, he was kind to me!" ”

So, Grandma knelt down in front of Abba and begged: "Lord, Zhiyun was also arrested by the court because of the army, and almost lost his life!" Since Liu Hong was kind to him when he was killed, it can be regarded as a merit and demerit! If the prince wants to become a big thing, there must be a large amount! Just ask the prince to forgive Liu Hong! ”

Grandma was also born in a family of eunuchs, smart and virtuous, and the relationship in all aspects is handled very well. The queen also entrusted her to manage the affairs of the harem, she took care of everything in an orderly manner, and it can be said that she was the "inner master" of the palace, and Abba also respected her very much on weekdays. Grandma has spoken, and Abba can't refute her face.

Abba helped Grandma up from the ground, turned his head and glared at Li Zhiyun and said, "Bastard, don't you hurry up?!" Li Zhiyun heard that Abba's tone seemed to be loose, and quickly got up and stood aside. Abba glared and said, "Why don't you get out of here?!" ”

After Li Zhiyun walked out of the Wude Palace, he was still not at ease, and hid outside the palace gate to eavesdrop. After Grandma left, Abba called the herald and said, "Go and spread my decree and release Liu Hong!" However, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living sin cannot be escaped! Deprive him of all official positions and never use them! ”

Li Zhiyun breathed a sigh of relief. If you dismiss the official, let Liu Hong rest at home for a while, and when he becomes the king in the future, why don't you just find him an errand in the palace?

When Li Zhiyun returned to Dongshi, the herald also arrived on horseback and conveyed the decree of the Tang King. The warden immediately ordered the release of the man, and two soldiers stepped forward to pull Liu Hong up and remove the wooden shackles from him.

Seeing that the matter had been satisfactorily resolved, the third sister left with Aunt Ying. Li Zhiyun walked up to the wooden platform, helped Liu Hong down the steps with Liu Yinglian, and returned to Liu's mansion in a carriage.

The two helped Liu Hong into the hall and asked him to sit down on the soft couch. As soon as Liu Hong sat down, he knelt down and kowtowed to Li Zhiyun to thank him for saving his life. Li Zhiyun hurriedly pulled him up and said, "Father-in-law doesn't have to be like this!" Get up! After he said this, he regretted a little: Is he taking advantage of others?

He quietly glanced at Liu Yinglian. Sure enough, she blushed and turned her head away. However, after Liu Hong sat down again, he patted the soft couch next to him and said, "Virtuous son-in-law, you can also sit down and rest!" ”

After this catastrophe, Liu Hong saw clearly that he could only rely on this person in the future, so he took the opportunity to verbally respond to this family business.