Gao Hongyuan said to Liu Jing, "General, if you can let us go today, I will repay you handsomely in the future. At that time, it will not be a problem for you to be ennobled and appointed as a prime minister."
If coercion doesn't work, try bribery.
Liu Jing scoffed, "Grand Preceptor, I advise you to think about yourself first. If I want to be ennobled and appointed as prime minister, I will earn it through my own efforts, not by betraying the emperor."
What Liu Jing didn't know was that Gao Hongyuan wasn't lying to him when he said those words; Gao Hongyuan genuinely thought that way.
Given time and opportunity, if he can raise the Demon King, the entire Nine Provinces will be his. Not to mention being enfeoffed as a marquis or prime minister, even if Liu Jing wanted to become a king of a different surname, it wouldn't be a problem.
Liu Jing didn't care what Gao Hongyuan was thinking and was about to order his men to arrest him.
Suddenly, Ji Yanzhuo made a move, rushing forward and shoving Gao Hongyuan, shouting, "You dare to stop me from returning to the palace, and you even dare to yell at me! Die!"
Gao Hongyuan was already standing on the edge of the cliff. Although a seven-year-old child is not very strong, he is still strong enough to push someone off the cliff unexpectedly.
ah----! ! ! !
As Gao Hongyuan fell off the cliff, he never imagined that after scheming for so many years, even at the cost of ten years of his life, to secure the throne for Ji Yanzhuo, he would ultimately be pushed off the cliff by his own son.
This unexpected turn of events stunned Empress Wu; she never imagined that her son would kill his own father!
Ji Yanzhuo looked at Gao Hongyuan, who had fallen off the cliff, with a smug look on his face. "Let's see if you dare to stop me from returning to the palace."
After saying that, he turned to look at Empress Dowager Wu with a victor's smile on his face, "Mother, let's go back to the palace."
Looking at her son like this, Empress Wu finally showed a look of despair on her face.
Ji Yanzhuo killed so many palace servants, but she was not desperate; she only felt that her son was a bit short-tempered.
Ji Yanzhuo wanted to assassinate Su Ruojin and shoot Yuan Hong and Dapu. She was not desperate, and even thought her son did a good job. One must be ruthless to those who threaten one's life.
Even when her son stabbed her with a dagger, she did not despair. She comforted herself that her child was still young and was just in so much pain that he couldn't control his emotions for a moment.
But now, he had actually killed his own father with his own hands, and Empress Wu was filled with despair in an instant.
Enough, enough. I've schemed so much, taken so many lives, and all I got in return was this child. What have I been doing all these years?
Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Wu no longer had any intention of running away. She took Ji Yanzhuo's hand, looked at Liu Jing, and said calmly, "I will go back with you."
Upon hearing this, Ji Yanzhuo was even more delighted, "Let's go back to the palace, let's go back to the palace!"
When Su Ruojin received the news that Empress Dowager Wu and Ji Yanzhuo had been brought back to the palace, and that Gao Hongyuan had been pushed off a cliff by Ji Yanzhuo, she was momentarily surprised.
However, considering that Ji Yanzhuo was a spoiled and arrogant boy, it wasn't surprising that he would do such a thing.
It's just that if Gao Hongyuan knew he would die at the hands of his own son, I wonder what he would think.
Su Ruojin asked Hu Qing, "Has Gao Hongyuan's body been found?"
Hu Qing replied, "That cliff is surrounded by steep walls, and it's too dangerous to go down and search for people, so Liu Jing didn't send anyone down. But with a cliff this high, falling down would most likely mean certain death."
The body wasn't found?
Su Ruojin thought of Aunt Qinglian from back then. If it were an ordinary person, it would be fine if they couldn't find her, but the other party was Gao Hongyuan.
A Gu Master who raises a demon Gu King.
As the saying goes, good people don't live long, while bad people live for a thousand years.
Su Ruojin was still a little worried about Gao Hongyuan. "Go tell Tao Zhengyu to keep an eye out for news about Gao Hongyuan. Our people are also inquiring about him."
Xiao Yanchu understood Su Ruojin's meaning: "You suspect that Gao Hongyuan is not dead?"
"Well, we can let it go with other people, but he's Gao Hongyuan, so we'd better be careful."
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