Wu Hao walked into the hall and said, "The Qing family doesn't have to be polite, just be flat." After everyone thanked him, he stood up, and the crown prince Li Ning Ling and his wife stepped forward to pay homage together, and shouted in unison: "The son of the emperor to meet his father." Li Wuhao glanced at his son, his eyes fell on the crown princess Wuyi, and he said loudly: "Everyone, please continue to drink and eat, I will come to see my son and daughter-in-law." Although the emperor said so, who really dared to sit down to eat and drink, they all looked at the emperor with ordinary eyes.

Li Wuhao said to his son Brother Ning Ling: "Prince, I have something to discuss when I take the Wuyi clan back to the palace, you can greet the ministers and friends here." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and took the hand of the Wuyi clan and walked straight out of the hall, completely ignoring the surprised and surprised eyes of his son and the ministers and generals. He couldn't help but turn around and shouted, "Husband, husband." Brother Ning Ling's face was flushed, and he caught up with a few steps but didn't dare to stop it, watching his wife being pulled away by his father and disappearing at the door.

There was silence in the hall, and everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them, Li Yuanhao, as a father, snatched his son's wife in public, that is, his own daughter-in-law, what is the situation? Everyone was afraid of causing trouble, and they no longer had the heart to eat and drink, so they said goodbye to Brother Ning Ling, who seemed to be unable to hear or see anything, his head was blank, his face was strange, his eyes were blank, and he stood on the ground like a log. In a moment, only the two people left in the hall were the prince's mansion and Sun Luo.

Luo Yun said in a low voice: "Shocking, shocking!" Sun Jianteng was obviously regretting that the crown princess was snatched away by Li Wuhao, swallowed his saliva, and scolded in a low voice: "The party is not civilized, and it is still in the barbarian stage, your mother can really do it like this, and she is not afraid of the world's shame." Luo Yun said: "The party has never been influenced by Confucianism, I don't know what shame is, the old mother and wife can kill people, what is it to rob a son and wife." Seeing Brother Ning Ling's lonely figure, he couldn't help but feel compassion, glanced at Sun Jianteng, walked up to him, and shouted, "Prince, prince." ”

Brother Ning Ling raised his head, Mu Ran glanced at the two of them, and said nothing. Sun Jianteng said: "Prince, don't think so much, get drunk to relieve a thousand sorrows, let's drink." With that, he brought him a glass of wine. Brother Ning Ling looked at the two of them, stunned and motionless, and finally reached out to take the sprinkling cup and drank it all. Luo Yun and Sun Jianteng also accompanied him to have a drink, Sun Jianteng poured the wine to the full, and said: "Life is unsatisfactory, nine times out of ten, come, I will give you a glass." ”

Li Ninglingge, the prince of the Western Xia Kingdom, was in a very bad mood, accompanied by the two, the comer did not refuse to clink glasses and dry, the more he drank, the more he drank, during which Luo Yun and Sun Jianteng continued to explain and persuade him, and he pulled a friendship set almost, Ning Lingge did not say a word, did not say a word, the wine came to the lips, drank to the end, shed two lines of sad tears, lying on the table, and could not get up again. Luo Yun and Sun Jianteng helped each other out of the door, took three steps and two steps back, and staggered for more than an hour before returning to the Wang'an Inn and falling asleep.

On the afternoon of the second day, someone came to knock on the door, Sun Jianteng opened the door in a daze, and the person who came was a Xixia man with a bare head, and said: "My master has invited two sons." Sun Jianteng said: "Who is the master of your family?" The man said: "The master of my family is the crown prince Li Ninglingge." As soon as the two of them heard the spirit, they immediately washed up and followed the man to the prince's mansion.

When the prince Ning Lingge saw the two coming, he hurriedly welcomed him into the hall, and the two wanted to salute him, Ning Lingge said: "You two don't have to be polite, please sit, please sit." After the servant served the tea, Brother Ning Ling asked: "The two noble surnames, are they from there?" The two reported one by one, and Brother Ning said: "The two brothers drank with me last night, and I am grateful to my brother, so I will invite the two of you to talk about it today." Luo Yun said: "The prince is polite, I don't know what the prince wants to talk about?"

Brother Ning Ling said: "What do you Han people think about my father's snatching of my wife?" Luo Yun said: "What you think in your heart, we will look at it." Sun Jianteng said: "Barbaric acts, unacceptable, shameful. Brother Ning Ling said: "Yes, I just think so." Then what do you say I should do?" Luo Yun said: "What else, he is both your father and the king, what else can you do, you can only swallow your anger." Sun Jianteng said: "Exactly, you can only pretend that this incident has not happened, and you are still your prince." Brother Ning Ling slapped the table and said, "No, since my father has taken my wife, he will inevitably prevent me from rebelling, and then he will abolish my position as the crown prince, how can I not repay the hatred of taking my wife!"

Luo Yun said: "What do you want to do, do you want to kill your father and rebel?" Ning Lingge said: "You two are Han Chinese, and they have nothing to do with our Western Xia Dynasty, and no one knows you, and only the two of you stayed to comfort me last night, which shows the feelings of friendship, so I want to hear your opinions." Luo Yun said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, I advise you to think twice, this matter is not trivial, and you must not be rash and bury troubles." Sun Jianteng's heart moved and said: "I have a friend who is resourceful and may be able to give you advice." When Brother Ning Ling heard this, he hurriedly said, "Invite him quickly, invite him quickly." Sun Jianteng said: "It's a pity that he is locked up in the prison of your Western Xia Kingdom and can't get out." ”

"Who is he, I might be able to let him out. Brother Ning Lingge asked the person he was talking about was Liu Kunzheng, and said: "I haven't heard of this person, I don't know where he is locked up, I have to spend some time to find out." Luo Yun said: "Then please ask the prince to inquire quickly, this person's wife Wei Mu Wanzhi, can the prince know?" Ning Lingge thought for a while and said: "We are relatives, my cousin, of course we know, I played with her when I was a child, but my father wiped out all the Wei Mu clan, and Wanzhi must have suffered misfortune." ”

Sun Jianteng whispered in the prince's ear: "Wanzhi is still alive, if the prince wants to succeed, he must find her out first, she may be hiding in her father's old subordinates who have not moved to Turin, have not hidden the windfall, Yeli Rongxi, Ren Deqi and others, the prince can send someone to investigate, if you want to find the husband and wife, the prince will be very sure, but this matter must be carried out in top secret, if you leak a little rumor, you and I are worried about our lives." ”

Brother Ning Ling said: "Okay, then the two of you will enter my house to do things with me, and I will send people to the prisons to inquire about Liu Kunzheng's news now, as for Wanzhi's news, I'm afraid it will not be easy to find out, after all, the person who collects Wanzhi will never easily reveal the news, so we have to start with his husband." Luo Yun said: "Just do what the prince said." ”

Brother Ning Lingge immediately sent two henchmen to the prison to check the roster of prisoners, and on the third day, the henchmen reported that Liu Kunzheng was locked up in the Heishui Temple National Prison, Ning Lingge was taken aback, the people in the Heishui Temple National Prison were all about to commit felonies, and they would all be beheaded in the future, and asked the henchmen: "What is the situation of Liu Kunzheng, and what did he do to be executed?" Liu Kunzheng is a felony of the imperial court, is the general Yeli begging doorman, Yeli begging was killed by the emperor, he had risen up to resist, escorted the young son of Yuli begging to escape, was captured a year ago, it is rumored that this person will be beheaded in the near future. Luo Yun and Sun Jianteng were taken aback, it had been seven days in the past, Li Yihang had not yet arrived to rendezvous, Liu Kunzheng was about to be beheaded, how to rescue him?

Luo Yun said: "Prince, this person is strong in martial arts and full of strategy, if you want to do great things, you have to find a way to rescue him." Brother Ning Ling said: "Let's go to the prison first, and find his wife Wanzhi before we can find a way together." At that moment, he sent his henchmen to arrange the dots, and everything was in order, Brother Ning Ling said to Luo Yun and Sun Jianteng: "I have already opened up the relationship, saying that you two are Liu Kunzheng's brothers, and you are going to visit the prison, you don't think about him this time, just ask about the news of his wife's hiding." ”

The two put on coarse cloth clothes, put on thick hats, carried roast chicken and shochu, and came to the Heishui Temple in the west of the city, although it is a temple, there are many more officers and soldiers than monks, and the monks in the temple are all full of meat, five big and three thick, it seems that they don't believe in the Buddha very much. The two explained their intentions, and the jailer who had been waiting here explained to them the precautions, and then led them into the prison, the cell was under the Heishui Temple, and after entering the ground, they passed through a number of iron gates, each door was strictly guarded by soldiers, and it was really sad to escape or rob the prison.

Arriving at the cell, the warden pointed to a small cell and said, "This is it." With that, he turned around and went out. Luo Yun saw a person lying in the gloomy cell, his clothes were ragged, his hair and beard were long and messy, Luo Yun grabbed the barricade and shouted softly: "Senior Brother Kun Zheng, Senior Brother Kun Zheng." ”

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The person in the prison was Liu Kunzheng, he heard the scream, he was surprised, he had been in prison for so long, no one had ever come to visit him, he raised his head, he didn't know the two in front of him, he was confused and thought he had heard it wrong. Luo Yun shouted again: "Senior Brother Kunzheng, I am Luo Yun." When Liu Kunzheng heard this, he immediately stood up and rushed over, grabbed Luo Yun's hand, and shouted: "Senior Brother Luo, it's you! How do you know that I'm here?" Luo Yun sighed lightly and said: "Yihang and I read the letter from my sister-in-law to us and knew that you were trapped, so we came all the way to see you. ”

Liu Kunzheng took it and put it on the ground and asked, "Where is Yihang?" Sun Jianteng said: "Yihang has something to do, come over and meet us later." Luo Yun introduced Sun Jianteng to him, and said in a low voice: "Senior brother, you don't have to worry here, we are trying to find a way to rescue you." Liu Kunzheng said: "The guards here are extremely tight, junior brother, don't risk it for me." Luo Yun said: "Don't say more, we want to find out the sister-in-law first, and then think of a way, you tell me, how to find the sister-in-law." Liu Kunzheng didn't want them to be involved in this matter and lost their lives in vain, and refused to disclose Wei Mu Wanzhi's contact information.