"Mother, what has happened in the past is in the past. There is no need to mention it again. My son definitely has no intention of looking down on his mother."

"Only God knows about this matter and you know it and I know it. There will never be any news about it."

After a few breaths, Cheng Qiao felt that the heat was almost there, and with a gentle smile on his face, he spoke at the right time.

Zhao Ji felt relieved. With a little tear in her charming eyes, she smiled lovingly and said, "Cheng'er, you are still so considerate. Your brother Wang is even more inferior to you in this regard."

"Brother Wang has shouldered a heavy burden and dare not slack off at all, but he still cares about my mother very much. You should be more considerate of this, my mother."

Zhao Ji was extremely satisfied with Cheng Qiao's ability to help Ying Zheng speak up. She smiled and said, "For Cheng'er's sake, the queen mother will not care about Zheng'er."

"Cheng'er, your estate has not been increased for a long time. The queen plans to add three thousand households to your family."

Cheng Qiao understood Zhao Ji's thoughts as soon as he thought about it. If he didn't accept it, Zhao Ji would think more about it. Besides, it was also a good thing for him. Who would dislike his higher income?

It doesn't count if you deliberately pretend to be a cross. On the surface, you don't care, but in fact, you don't know that you are proud of it in your heart.

"This is the grace of my mother, how can I refuse it?"

Zhao Ji smiled and nodded, feeling completely relieved.

The two were silent for a while, then Cheng Qiao said with a troubled face: "Mother, there are some things I don't know whether to say or not..."

"What's wrong with you and me, mother and son?"

"Speak frankly, don't be like your brother Wang who keeps everything in his heart and doesn't discuss it with the queen mother. This makes the queen feel that your brother Wang is getting further and further away from me."

"Ahem... Then my son just said it."

"A son has a way to relieve his mother of many years of trouble."

After saying that, Cheng Qiao lowered his head deliberately and did not look at Zhao Ji's reaction. Although she was not her biological mother, it was still very embarrassing to discuss such things.

Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment, then her face turned crimson, and she was filled with shame and anger. However, because she had asked Cheng Qiao to speak out before, and it was difficult to get angry openly, she could only look away and said coldly: "Cheng'er, although the queen is not your biological mother,

, but your aunt, how can you help with that kind of thing?"

"Besides, how can you be worthy of your father and the others?"

"If word spreads, will you and I still live?"

Cheng Qiao was stunned when he heard this.

What's wrong with this? If he did something like that, wouldn't his character be ruined? How is he any different from an animal?

Is there something missing in Zhao Ji’s mind? Is this possible?

The road is so wild!

"Mother, where did you think you were?"

"Is my son worse than a beast?"

"Son means through the method of cultivation."

"My son accidentally got a spell here. This spell is an authentic Taoist spell. It is called the Purifying Mantra. It has been passed down for a long time. It is the most effective in controlling the heart and controlling various desires!"

The Purifying Mantra is indeed very powerful, but with Zhao Ji's temperament and current age, she can only practice it superficially and recite the mantra sincerely, and the effect is limited but limited.

Without the luck method, visualization method, and application method that are combined with the mantra, it is impossible to practice to a profound level. It treats the symptoms but not the root cause. When the desire accumulates to the limit, it will be uncontrollable.

This is a typical blocking method. When the desire accumulates to a critical value and explodes, it will become even more uncontrollable.

Fortunately, Cheng Qiao just wanted to use the Purifying Mantra to gain Zhao Ji's trust in him in that regard, so that he could use his back trick in a logical manner. That was the way to solve it once and for all.

Only when Zhao Ji heard this did she realize that she had gone wrong. She lowered her head, her face became intensely hot, and her white jade-like skin was dyed crimson, spreading all the way to her neck and ears. She was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a crack to get in.

After a while, Zhao Ji came to her senses and said as if nothing had happened: "So that's the case. You should just make it clear. This will make the queen mother look ugly."

Cheng Qiao smiled bitterly when he heard this. He wanted to say it, but did you give him a chance?

My mind goes too fast...

However, just as Lu Buwei understands Zhao Ji, Cheng Qiao also understands Zhao Ji. The trick is to smooth things over. In history and animation, Ying Zheng just doesn't understand, which is why the relationship between mother and son is so tense.

Maybe Ying Zheng understood, but after becoming the King of Qin, his status was different. Out of his understanding of the King, Ying Zheng couldn't let go of his pride and couldn't do things like wearing colorful clothes to entertain the bride.

"It's my son's fault. Your Majesty, Queen Mother, please forgive me for my son's mistake."

When Zhao Ji heard this, she smiled like a flower and said, "That's all, just write down the mind-purifying mantra."

This is an important reason why she treats Qiao as her own child.

She likes a son who can be subdued, act coquettishly, and make her happy. Although Cheng Qiao is no longer as coquettish as he was when he was a child, he can still be subdued and make her happy.

Speaking of which, Cheng Qiao often acted coquettishly when she was a young lady. Especially when she experienced the feeling of being held tightly in Zhao Ji's arms for the first time, she was really obsessed with it.

That is the youth that has passed away in this life. The older you get, the more measured and rational you become.

But after all, it is still a pleasant memory, just like an adolescent boy who can't help but fantasize about the beautiful female teacher in school.

Cheng Qiao said he lived in three lives, but in fact he didn’t have much experience. The first life was very mediocre and he was not very old. The second life was still very mediocre due to the seclusion and hard training. The first two lives combined were not as exciting as the more than ten years of this life.

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"Mother, let your son teach you. There are not many words and you will learn them by heart quickly."

"The key is that there is no charm when written on paper. There is a lot of emphasis on the pronunciation of this mind-purifying mantra."

"Well, Queen Mother would like to see if it is as effective as you said..."

"Look at it."

Cheng Qiao smiled confidently, then calmed down and calmed down. His inner strength mixed with the power of his soul gathered at his throat. The strange but meaningful Taoist voice sounded in the hall, and also sounded deep in Zhao Ji's heart.

Taishangtaixing, adapt to changes without stopping. Exorcise evil spirits and bind evil spirits, protect life and body. Wisdom is clear and pure, and the mind is peaceful. The three souls are eternal, the soul has no loss, and the urgency is like the law.

After reciting it once, Zhao Ji's eyes were half-opened and half-closed, her face was full of indifference and tranquility, and the charming and gorgeous color disappeared, and she had the charm of a female Bodhisattva.

Just kidding, if you practice the Mind Purifying Mantra to a high level, it will be easy to break away illusions and inner demons.

Although his strength is not as good as Zhang Zhiwei's, his cultivation of the Purifying Mantra is not far behind. Isn't it easy to defeat Zhao Ji?

Unfortunately, he has to recite it in person, and the effect of Zhao Ji's recitation is far less effective. However, he can't stay by Zhao Ji's side all the time, so Zhao Ji still needs to learn it.

If he wanted to be fair and just, and use his backup plan in a logical manner, necessary preparations were necessary. He didn't want to take the risk of sneaking into Zhao Ji's palace in the middle of the night.

Then, Cheng Qiao said something, and Zhao Ji followed. Cheng Qiao, the master of the Purifying Mantra, taught him personally. After a few times, Zhao Ji mastered it and was able to exert its basic effects.

Seeing Zhao Jitian's peaceful appearance, Cheng Qiao called in the maid outside.

Before leaving, he praised Zhao Gao in front of Zhao Ji, expressed his appreciation for Zhao Gao, and wanted to borrow it to help him manage the trap.

Zhao Ji naturally would not refuse. If she hadn't known that Cheng Qiao liked to manage Luo Wang and valued Luo Wang very much, she would have wanted Zhao Gao to take charge, thus freeing up more time to accompany her in the palace.

Zhao Gao was overjoyed and thanked him. Zhao Ji gave Zhao Gao a few words and went to the inner hall to rest with the support of his confidant female officer. He fell into a deep sleep that night, and the quality of his sleep was quite good.

…

After Cheng Qiao left Lanzhi Palace, he went to see his biological mother, Mrs. Han, and others, and had dinner with them before leaving the palace.

It doesn't make sense to go into the palace and only look at Zhao Ji while leaving the others alone.

Just when Cheng Qiao returned and it was just getting dark, Lu Buwei, who returned to the mansion, also received what Cheng Qiao had prepared.

The confessions of Lao Du’s backup, the confessions of the confidants secretly sent by Lu Buwei’s housekeeper, and some private conversations between Lu Buwei and Zhao Ji in Zhilan Palace.

The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole follows behind. As the driving force behind the Lao poisoning incident, Cheng Qiao can be considered at least half of the driving force behind the incident.

All the operations secretly arranged by Lu Buwei seem to be secretive, but in fact, due to deliberate calculations and unintentional calculations, as well as the tight control of the network, everything is under Cheng Qiao's control.

The people arranged by Lu Buwei's confidant butler had just finished working, and were secretly arrested by a snare. These people were completely unable to stand in front of the snare, so they just used some small tricks to explain themselves.

But in order not to alert the snake and get what they wanted, Luo Sheng released the people, but secretly still sent people to control the whereabouts of those people, and they were arrested again a quarter of an hour before the poison was used.

Lu Buwei was frightened and angry when he saw the evidence, especially the private conversation between him and Zhao Ji that frightened him so much that he broke into a cold sweat all over his body.

Although there was no evidence, Lu Buwei's intuition told him that he might have been involved in a conspiracy. Otherwise, how could there be such detailed evidence? It was not like searching for evidence after a temporary discovery.

Lu Buwei was silent for a long time, and finally sighed with regret. Now that he has been caught in the net, what's the point of regretting it anymore?

As long as the conditions are not excessive, he is admitting defeat!

Fortunately, Cheng Qiao still had a sense of proportion. He knew that although the handle was not light, it would not be fatal to Lu Buwei, so he did not make any excessive demands.

He just asked Lu Buwei to fully support the policies he proposed in the future, and if he recommended officials, he would try his best to give them a good position in the future.

The entire letter was very harsh in the beginning, scolding and warning Lu Buwei, but was quite polite in the middle and at the end, detailing Lu Buwei's achievements for Qin.

Later, Cheng Qiao said that he believed Lu Buwei was in trouble for a while, and as long as he didn't do it again, he would respect Lu Buwei as always, and ensure that Lu Buwei would retire and take care of the continuity of the Lu family's inheritance in his absence.

In short, the entire letter is strict at the front and broad at the back, with leniency and severity balanced at the same time.

Lu Buwei breathed a sigh of relief after reading the letter. At the same time, he was frightened by Cheng Qiao's methods and felt that he had underestimated Cheng Qiao before.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Buwei sent someone to deliver a valuable gift to Chang'an Jun's Mansion overnight.

When Cheng Qiao received the gift, he realized that Lu Buwei had relented, so he sent someone back overnight to add another equally valuable gift.

Later, because he was happy in his heart, Cheng Qiao sent someone to call Jing Salamander and invite Concubine Yan and Moon God to come to the mansion to enjoy the moon and have a banquet as a celebration.

This incident is indeed worthy of celebration. On the surface, Cheng Qiao's power does not seem to have increased, but in fact, it has secretly expanded countless times.

In a sense, this is equivalent to asking God to come over. If Lu Buwei was only willing to help him for his sake in the past, now it is at least five points. The level of support is definitely different.

This will be of great benefit to Cheng Qiao's own power and what he will do in the future.

However, the power has increased, but the responsibilities that should be shouldered have not increased. How can we be unhappy?

Lu Buwei felt relieved after receiving the gift that was returned quickly.

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Chapter completed!