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When parting, Guo Mo still exhorted carefully.

He knew his elder brother well. If Guo Mo didn't bring it up, the elder brother would dare to let his mother and sister-in-law live with him in Changping.

The living facilities there are far inferior to Zhongdu City, and it is at the frontier of the border between Song and Mongolia, so safety may not be guaranteed.

Guo Jing didn't stay any longer, and left with Haji. He was going to Bianliang City to pick up his mother Li Ping, and then went north to Zhongdu.

……

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Du is seeking an audience—"

As soon as Guo Jing left, the "Jin Yi" guarding outside the Hao Palace came in to report.

Originally, Guo Mo wanted to find Du Gao, but he didn't expect him to come in person.

"Please come in, Prime Minister Du—"

After all, Du Gao is now the prime minister of Xixia, so Guo Mo still put the word "please" in front of it.

"Chen Du Gao sees Your Majesty—"

Du Gao just wanted to pay respects, but was stopped by Guo Mo.

"Du Qing, although the Supreme Emperor has stipulated that I will no longer be called an 'official family', there is no need to give a big gift every time. I have to announce this matter later. Except for some important occasions, it is better not to give a big gift every now and then."

The Supreme Emperor Zhao Kuo summoned the important officials in the court the night before Guo Mo's ascension to the throne, announced the abolition of "officials" and called the new emperor Guo Mo "Your Majesty". Guo Mo finally found out.

He didn't blame his father for his unnecessary actions. Instead, he felt the affectionate father from Zhao Kuo. Guo Mo knew that this was the extravagant wish of many generations of emperors in the Song Dynasty.

"Du Qing, why did Du Qing suddenly change color at my son's full moon banquet today? But is there anything wrong?"

Du Gao was one of the four economic and strategic appeasement envoys under Guo Mo's command back then. Although he was not ranked as high as Wei Liaoweng, he was the one who spent the longest time with Guo Mo.

After all, Guo Mo had been living in Luoyang City for those few years, and he had seen Du Gao, who was then the appeasement envoy of the Henan Economic Strategy, without looking up or down.

"Your Majesty, the subject also suddenly discovered something at that time, and almost made a rude move. After going back and thinking for a long time, I think it's better to come and tell Your Majesty, no matter whether it will really happen in the future, we can be prepared for it."

Du Gao said in a low voice, even a little cautious.

Guo Mo was very puzzled. It stands to reason that this Du Gao is also a man who is well versed in military and political affairs. Compared with Wei Liaoweng, he is more bold and unrestrained.

"Du Qing, there are only you and me here, out of the king's mouth, into my ears, just say what you have to say, no matter what you say, I will never hold grudges against you."

This is a loyal and upright minister. Guo Mo didn't want him to have too much psychological burden, so he explained it with words first.

"Your Majesty treats me like this, and I know that I can't stop talking. Your Majesty, when I hugged His Royal Highness King Ning today, I accidentally touched the back of King Ning's head with my left hand, but found that this child was born with a rebellious bone..."

When Du Gao said the word "anti-bone", even such a loyal and upright person stopped in time.

"Backbone in the back of your head?"

Guo Mo stood up in shock, he didn't expect that Du Gao was talking about this matter.

This matter can be big or small, especially in an era like the Song Dynasty. The most famous "rebellious bone in the back of the head" in history belongs to Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

However, it is still only the Great Song Dynasty, and Guo Mo just plagiarized "The Romance of the Gods", and I am afraid that the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will have to wait several hundred years.

In the era of advanced science and medicine in later generations, Guo Mo certainly understood the origin of this so-called "anti-bone".

Some people have a protruding occipital bone, which has the basis for rebellious bones. Looking at their head portraits from the side, it looks like a deliberately exaggerated question mark.

At the same time, anti-bone can also refer to a person with a particularly prominent forehead, called frontal anti-bone, commonly known as "adze head".

The other is spiritual, referring to those heretics, traitors, traitors, etc. who have a rebellious spiritual temperament.

In fact, these wisdoms that seem to have accumulated history are known to many people as unreliable, but because of the influence of traditional culture, people begin to tend to these mysterious preaching when they lack understanding of the nature of reality.

However, Guo Mo has no way to explain clearly the essence of "rebellion" to Du Gao, or to people of this era.

"Okay, I know about this matter. Du Qing, it doesn't depend on a person's appearance. Although there is a saying that 'a person's appearance comes from the heart', it's more about the environment and the acquired environment. nourish."

"It's just a child. Even if I grow up in the future, I, Da Song, don't know how strong I am? Du Qing, just put your heart in your stomach. I know this well."

Guo Mo knew Du Gao's character, so he naturally knew that he said this matter out of consideration for Song Dynasty and was just loyal.

"Since Your Majesty knows what's in your mind, I won't repeat the old minister's words. Your Majesty should rest early after a day of hard work. The old minister will leave—"

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Du Gao bowed and retreated, but Guo Mo was sitting in the hall, unable to calm down for a long time.

It stands to reason that Guo Mo doesn't care about the so-called "anti-bone".

However, thinking of Murong Yan's previous worries, Murong Qiudi's previous requests, and the strange existence of the Murong family that has risen and fallen several times over hundreds of years, Guo Mo was a little uncertain about his persistence.

……

Three days later, it will be the day of the Xixia Great Court Assembly.

It has been more than half a year, and it is usually a court meeting hosted by Du Gao, the Prime Minister of Xixia, to deal with specific affairs gathered from various places.

However, today there are some exceptions.

When all the civil and military officials entered the hall, they found that the Empress Murong Yan was sitting on the throne in the center.

What is rare is that today's Murong Yan did not wear a light veil, and many courtiers saw Murong Yan's appearance for the first time.

The appearance of Murong Yan caught Manchu Wenwu a little by surprise, and even Du Gao was a little puzzled.

"Everyone, I am Murong Yan, Empress of Great Xia. Many people have never seen my face. Today is a good time to get to know you."

"Thank you all for your support and loyalty to Da Xia over the past few years. Murong Yan hereby thanks—"

After finishing speaking, Murong Yan stood up from the throne, cupped her fists and bowed to Wenwu below.

"This this……"

"This is what we should do, how dare we accept this gift from the queen?"

All the ministers below, especially some veteran ministers in the court, also returned the courtesy one after another, saying "dare not".

"Du Xiang, please go and ask His Majesty to come over—"

Suddenly, Murong Yan said to Du Gao.

Du Gao frowned, he naturally understood who Murong Yan was referring to by His Majesty.

The problem is that although Guo Mo makes the final decision on military and state affairs, Guo Mo has never participated in the Western Xia court meeting after being in Xixia for so long.

Now, the Empress of Western Xia, Concubine Shu of the Great Song Dynasty, wants to invite His Majesty to come by herself in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, is it true? ...

"Minister Du Gao, I would like to obey the king's order—"

Although Du Gao was a little puzzled, he still bowed out of the court hall and came outside the main hall.

"Do you know where His Majesty is now?"

Outside the main hall, people with their own "brocade clothes" were guarding, Du Gao stopped someone casually and asked.

"Du Xiang, His Majesty seems to have gone to the West Courtyard early in the morning. Hearing that Commander Wu is about to break through, His Majesty rushed over after receiving the report."

Commander Wu, that is, Wu Nantian, Guo Mo's second apprentice, is now the deputy commander of "Jinyi", just like Li Zhichang.

Wu Nantian has been in seclusion since years ago, and it has been more than five months. Is he going to leave the seclusion today?

Du Gao went out of the main hall and went straight to the west courtyard, how far away he was, he heard the sound of fighting in the west courtyard.

The entire west courtyard is occupied by people in "Jinyi". As a daily living and practice place, except for those who are on duty, other people generally stay in this courtyard.

Du Gao walked into the yard and saw dozens of "Jinyi" surrounded by two people. One was the leader of "Jinyi" Lu Pingsheng "Iron Palm Ruthless" and the other was Wu Nantian who had just left the customs. .

And Guo Mo stood with his hands behind his back, standing on the sidelines watching the fight between the two.

It turned out that just after Guo Mo finished his breakfast, Li Zhichang ran over and told him that Wu Nantian was about to break through, so Guo Mo hurried over.

My second apprentice is the one who has followed Guo Mo for the longest time among all the apprentices. He is also the one with the highest achievement in martial arts. At the age of 22, he will soon break through to the first-class level.

When Guo Mo arrived, Wu Nantian was already fighting with Lu Pingsheng. Looking at his apprentice's state, Guo Mo knew that he was still one step away from the final breakthrough.

"Iron Palm Ruthless" Lu Pingsheng is in the same second-rate realm as Wu Nantian, but his experience and skills are slightly stronger than Wu Nantian's, and the iron palm in his hand is even more impenetrable.

He knew that he was giving Wu Nantian a trick to let him unleash all the accumulation he had accumulated over the years, so he turned his anger to yin and yang, guarded the door, and did not seek meritorious deeds, but no faults.

Guo Mo watched the two fight for more than 20 rounds. Wu Nantian still failed to take the last step, but the "Sunrise and Sunset Palm" in his hand was getting faster and faster, as if there was no gap between the forward and backward moves.

"How long have they been fighting?"

Guo Mo softly asked "Jin Yi" next to him.

"Teacher, the two commanders have fought for more than 50 rounds."

"Zhichang, you also go there, use the 'Three Flowers Gathering Palm' to deal with him, forcing him to break through the limit."

Guo Mo thought for a while, and then turned his head to Li Zhichang who was beside him.

In this way, Lu Pingsheng and Li Zhichang fought against Wu Nantian.

Li Zhichang was the main attacker, and Lu Pingsheng was the main defender. The two had known each other for more than a year, and they were very familiar with each other's martial arts, and they cooperated even more tacitly.

"Come on, I, Wu Nantian, have no fear—"

Wu Nantian saw the master's arrival, and now that Li Zhichang came up again, he knew it must be the master's order, and immediately shouted, transporting his internal strength to the extreme.

Ten strokes, twenty strokes, thirty strokes...

Wu Nantian gritted his teeth and persisted against two people whose skills were not inferior to his own, but gradually fell into a disadvantage.

"Will I still fail after preparing for so long?"

"The master said that if the 'Chaoyang Sunset Palm' is practiced to the extreme, it is possible for a top player to break through to 'half-step innate'. Is it possible that I, Wu Nantian, are so bad?"

"Nan Tian, ​​what is the rising sun? What is the setting sun? The east is the rising sun, and the west is the setting sun. It is the same sun. Don't you recognize it from east to west?"

"Don't stick to the palm moves, but when you see the enemy coming, just wave your palm to attack at will. Attack is the best defense—"

As my second apprentice, I am good at everything, but I am a little introverted, or I am too conservative.

With such a personality, he can be regarded as a down-to-earth person no matter what he is entrusted to do.

However, when it comes to practicing martial arts, this kind of personality is a bit of a hindrance to him.

Therefore, since practicing with Guo Mo, Wu Nantian's every breakthrough seems to be more difficult and more painful than others.

Guo Mo used his inner strength, like a bell in the morning and a drum in the evening, the sound rang in Wu Nantian's ears, more like hitting Wu Nantian's heart.

"So, it can still be like this?—"

The three of them started again, but the palm technique was still the "Changyang Sunset Palm", but Lu Pingsheng and Li Zhichang couldn't find the feeling just now, even Li Zhichang was someone who had learned this palm technique.

Another ten moves, twenty moves, thirty moves...

"Snapped--"

The six palms of the three collided together, and the entire west courtyard resounded like thunder.

Li Zhichang and Lu Pingsheng both flew upside down for more than a foot, and finally stopped to stop, but Wu Nantian's feet sank into the ground half a foot deep, but he stood on the ground.

"Nantian, how do you feel?"

Guo Mo was the first to fly over, pulled the apprentice out of the ground, and gave him a burst of true energy.

"Master, I seem to...seem to have made a breakthrough?"

"Hahaha, brother Wu, congratulations, you've already run ahead of old brother—"

Lu Pingsheng walked over, shaking his numb palms from time to time.

"Okay, if you break through, come with me as a teacher. Since Du Xiang is here, something must have happened."

Guo Mo had noticed Du Gao's arrival a long time ago, but his apprentice was at the critical juncture of breaking through, and he had to push back the big things.

"Your Majesty, the Empress has arrived at the Great Court Assembly, and specially asked her ministers to invite Her Majesty to come over."

After watching the thrilling moment just now, Du Gao is still a little out of his wits.

"Oh, what happened? Why did you let me go to the court meeting?"

Guo Mo was also confused. When he was leaving the house in the morning, he didn't hear what Murong Yan said.

"I don't know, it seems that the Empress is going to announce something—"

Du Gao guessed.

"Then let's go and see what's going on together."

Guo Mo didn't go back to change his clothes, and walked towards the main hall where the court meeting was held surrounded by everyone.

"Your Majesty, you are finally here—"