Chapter 289: Assassinating Yuan Hao
The five of them lived in the desert oasis Zhuangzi for more than ten days, Li Yihang took advantage of his free time, took out the abbot of Chang Ku and gave him the Shaolin mastery "Washing the Pulp Sutra" to read and study, and then practiced, but the content of the scripture was too broad and profound, and after practicing for more than ten days, he didn't notice any progress, and said in his heart: " After all, I'm still too young and shallow, I can't understand a lot of the content in it at all, it's normal to practice blindly, and it has no effect, and now my main task is not to expel the alien true qi in my body, but to improve my skills as much as possible, and strive to get revenge before the attack of the alien true qi. "At the moment, collect the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" and practice the mixed yuan magic diligently.
Liu Kunzheng and Sun Jianteng's trauma is almost healed, this morning, Liu Kunzheng said: "This matter has passed, Xingzhou City has gradually calmed down, do you have any plans?" Li Yihang said: "We don't have any plans, what about you, senior brother?" Liu Kunzheng said: "I want to go back to Xingzhou City, meet the prince, and thank him for saving his life." Luo Yun said: "At the moment, we have nowhere to go, so let's go to the city to play." ”
After several people discussed, they disguised themselves as shepherds, led the cattle and sheep into the city, turned around the street twice, and after making sure that no one was following, they flashed into the prince's mansion. Brother Ning Ling, the crown prince, was waiting in the mansion for a long time, and when he saw them, he hurriedly invited them to the small hall. After Ning Lingge and Liu Kunzheng and Li Yihang talked, they felt that they were all benevolent, righteous and heroic people, and they were very happy, and they hated to see each other, so they stayed in the prince's mansion for a long time. Li Yihang and Liu Kunzheng met not long ago, and they didn't want to be separated so quickly, so they also stayed in the prince's mansion to live a leisurely life.
Liu Kunzheng and the crown prince Ning Lingge often discussed in the secret room, Luo Yun and the others asked what was discussed, Liu Kunzheng only said: "This is the prince's family affairs, the state affairs of Western Xia, you don't have to know better." After a while, Wei Mu Wanzhi invited everyone to live at Huang Yuanwai's house in Beibao Town for a few days, Luo Yun and others readily agreed, but when they left, they didn't see Liu Kunzheng, Wei Mu Wanzhi said: "Kun Zheng has something to do, I'll come later, let's go first." ”
On the second day, Liu Kunzheng put on the national costume of the Tangut people, cut the hairstyle of the Tangut people, and then asked the craftsman to groom it well, and then got rid of a party man. The Xixia Palace is not big, and there are not as many red tape rules and taboos as the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and Brother Ning Lingge walks in the palace as the crown prince, and it is passable almost everywhere.
Brother Ning Lingge found out where his father was, and knew that he was drinking in the palace of the new queen Wuyi, who was originally his wife, and was made a concubine after being robbed by his father, called the new queen, and became his stepmother. Brother Ning Lingge endured a burning anger and rushed to the dormitory where the Wuyi clan was located with Liu Kunzheng.
When the new queen did not move the palace, the guards stopped at the entrance of the hall and did not let him enter, Ning Lingge said: "I have something urgent to report to my father, please allow me to enter." A guard chief said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the emperor has issued an order, no matter who it is, they can't go in and disturb it, violators should be beheaded, please let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince understand." Brother Ning Ling stood at the entrance of the hall, faintly hearing the sweet laughter and gasping sound of the Wu Yi clan coming from the hall, full of anger, instantly ignited, nodded to Liu Kunzheng, the two immediately took out a big knife from under the robe, rushed to the hall, more than forty guards in charge of the emperor's security were shocked, and rushed over to intercept and kill.
Liu Kunzheng took the lead, cut off the two soldiers in front of him, and shouted: "Prince, I will deal with these soldiers, and you will deal with your father." Brother Ning Ling: "Okay!" Leaving the soldiers, he rushed straight in, Liu Kunzheng protected him, killed the gods when he met the gods, destroyed the Buddha when he met the Buddha, he was extremely brave, he had already rushed through a bloody road in a moment, and there were no guards in the bedroom, Brother Ning Lingge shouted: "You are blocking here." Without looking back, he rushed straight to the door.
Although the room was full of murderous sounds, the room was a strong sense of spring, Ning Lingge's rash intrusion, the Western Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao was so frightened that he rolled from the bed to the ground, when he raised his head, he found that it was his son, the prince Ning Lingge, who was holding a big knife, and exclaimed: "Beast, what do you want to do?"
Brother Ning Ling looked at the Wu Yi clan on the bed, and scolded: "Slut!" Looking at his father underground, he was furious, stepped on his father's bare body, his eyes were red and shouted: "What are you doing, what do you say I am going to do?" Although Li Wuhao was drunk, his brute strength was not small, he grabbed his legs, pulled him to the ground, and scolded: "Little beast, you actually want to kill your father, I see that you are eating leopard gall." Brother Ning Ling was pulled down and hugged by him, and the big knife in his hand was useless, he let go of the handle of the knife and scuffled with his father.
Although Li Yuanhao is a generation of heroes, but in recent years he has been addicted to wine, and his body is not as good as before, how is he an angry son's opponent, he soon fell behind, and was beaten by his son, he shouted: "Queen, queen, quickly take a knife and kill this beast who committed the following crimes!" Wu Yi was startled by his shouting, his hand was weak, and the big knife fell to the ground.
Li Yuanhao took the opportunity to punch Ning Lingge in the face, knocked him off his body, and reached out to pick up the knife, Ning Lingge scolded: "Dog thief, what else do you want?" Turning over and jumping up, stepping on his hand, Li Wuhao screamed in pain, Ning Lingge picked up the knife, pointed at him and said: "I killed you as a tyrant for the Yeli clan and the Weimu clan." Wu Yishi pounced on him and shouted: "Prince, don't do anything stupid, he is your father!" Ning Lingge kicked her away, looked up to the sky and laughed: "Did he ever treat me as his son? When he snatched you, did he take into account my feelings, and his fate today is completely his own fault." He can kill his mother, why can't I kill my father?"
Li Yuanhao scolded: "Brute, how can I have you without me, what about robbing your woman, everything you have is given by me, if you want your head, you have to give it too." Struggling hard, rolling and crawling out of the door to escape, Ning Lingge followed behind with a knife, and slashed four knives in succession, slashing at his father's limbs, and sneered: "I'll let you escape, let you escape!"
Liu Kunzheng killed more than 40 guards to lie on the ground, but the reinforcements in the palace rushed to the queen's dormitory in an endless stream, he is three heads and six arms no matter how high the martial arts, it is difficult to resist the tide of attacks, he shouted outside the door: "Prince, have you succeeded, I can't stop it, run away." ”
Brother Ning Lingge was taken aback, no longer humiliated his father, a knife often cut off his head, Li Wuhao's head hurriedly shrank back, but unfortunately his nose was too high, his forehead and face avoided the blade, but his nose could not be avoided, and he was cut off completely, and his face was full of blood, this brutal king of Western Xia cut off the noses of countless Liao people for several years, and he didn't expect that one day his nose would also be cut off, and the murderer was still his own son Ning Lingge.
Ning Lingge wanted to cut again, but he heard the sky-shattering shouts and killings outside the house, and saw his father's bloody face, and his heart was also panicked, and he didn't care about taking his father's life, so he rushed out of the house and shouted: "Let's go!" All the soldiers saw that it was the prince, and they were all a little covered their heads, and their strength and enthusiasm were greatly reduced. Liu Kunzheng fought hard to protect Brother Ning Ling, rushed to the harem and fled.
Out of the palace, Brother Ning Ling didn't run out of the city, Liu Kunzheng hurriedly said: "Prince, where are you going?" Brother Ning Ling said: "I want to go to the Guozhang Wuzang Pang family to hide, I have discussed with him beforehand, after killing my father, he will support me as the emperor of Western Xia." Liu Kunzheng hurriedly said: "Prince, are you crazy, hiding in the Pang family, isn't that self-defeating, how can you believe the words of this big traitor?" Brother Ning Ling said: "Brother Kunzheng, you have to believe me, he proposed my plan to assassinate my father, how can he be unfavorable to me? You go with me." Liu Kunzheng was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and without saying a word, he picked up Brother Ning Ling and ran out of the city, but Brother Ning Ling was determined to go, how long could Liu Kunzheng pull him, and after a while, he broke free and ran to the Prime Minister's house.
Liu Kunzheng shouted: "Prince, don't fall for him, he will kill you, come back quickly." The louder Liu Kunzheng screamed, the faster Ning Lingge ran, and soon disappeared.
Liu Kunzheng had no choice, he didn't escape, he might escape, he didn't dare to hesitate at the moment, when the news didn't come out of the palace, he hurriedly went out of the city gate, came to the pre-arranged place, took the horse, clamped his legs, and left.
Li Yihang, Luo Yun and others waited in Beibao Town for three days, but they still didn't wait for Liu Kunzheng to come back, and when they were anxious, someone brought a shocking news from the city: Prince Ning Lingge killed his father, and the Western Xia king Li Yuan's nose was cut off, and he died bleeding more than once. The elder brother of the Empress Wuzang captured the crown prince Li Ningling, and killed the crown prince and his mother, the deposed Empress Yeli, with the crime of killing the monarch.
When Li Yihang heard this, he already understood that Senior Brother Kun Zheng had conspired with Brother Ning Ling, the crown prince, to assassinate Li Yuanhao, he and Luo Yun hurriedly went to find Wei Mu Wanzhi, but they couldn't find anything, and finally Huang Yuanwai took a letter to them and said, "This is what Wanzhi asked me to hand over to you when she left." The letter was written by Liu Kunzheng in advance, Li Yihang knew that the matter was very important, and he hid in the house with Luo Yun and Sun Jianteng and closed the door, only to pull out the letterhead, only to see that the letter read:
"Senior Brother Yihang, Senior Brother Luo Yun, Brother Jianteng, the grace of saving lives, unforgettable. Between brothers, there are not many words of gratitude. The death of the confidant, the prince and I conspired to assassinate the current king of Western Xia, Li Yuanhao, if he is not an adult, he will become benevolent, if this matter is successful, we will meet again, if defeated, we will be brothers again in the next life. Because my brother doesn't want to drag you down, so I have been hiding it, hoping to forgive me. Kun Zheng. Under this paragraph, there is another Juanxiu text: "Brothers, Wanzhi goes with her husband, please don't read it, don't say goodbye, it's really a last resort." ”
Li Yihang had a low fever and said in a low voice: "Senior brother and sister-in-law don't want us to get involved, and they didn't even tell us the place of escape. Luo Yun said worriedly: "Although Li Yuanhao was killed, I don't know if the senior brother escaped, or if he escaped, but I don't know if he was arrested and killed with the prince." Sun Jianteng said: "Let's go into the city immediately to find out the news." ”
Li Yihang asked Huang Yuanwai: "When will Sister-in-law Wanzhi leave, did you say that she will go there?" Huang Yuanwai said: "I don't know, I only found this letter on the table this morning, and I thought it was leaving at night." ”