When all parties were ecstatic, or chickens and dogs jumping, Guo Mo had already taken the yellow horse and returned to the "Peach Blossom Island" that had been away for half a month.

The more times he came and went, the more Guo Mo could feel the rapid changes in "Peach Blossom Island".

The coldness and arrogance of the past can no longer be seen, adding more popularity and solemnity.

About ten miles away from "Peach Blossom Island", there is also an island, called "Xiaozhou", which is slightly smaller than "Peach Blossom Island".

Previously, Wu Mianfeng ordered people to be stationed in the "Xiaozhou", facing the side of the "Peach Blossom Island", and a small water village had been built, and Zhang Damengzi had several boats under him, which docked here all the year round.

A number of houses have also been built on the island, which are scattered and dozens of people have already moved in.

The interior of the island, there is an area of 100 acres, slightly flat, planted with some herbaceous plants, and there are more than 20 horses, which are grazed here.

Yang Tiexin took Xiao Yang to the "Peach Blossom Island" one step earlier, and Mu Nianci gradually recovered, so Huang Rong placed them in the "Songfeng Pavilion".

It is relatively quiet here, and it is close to "Fulongju".

On this day, Guo Mo was in the outer study, checking Zhang Shijie's homework, and Wu Nantian was also reading beside him.

The outer study room is separated from the study room of Guo Mo's back house, that is, the west cross courtyard of "Fulongju", which is used to teach apprentices.

Later, it was named "Yuyingtang" by the "Eastern Evil" Huang Yaoshi.

For this big apprentice, Guo Mo likes it more and more.

Studying, practicing martial arts, being a person and doing things, all have a clear eye.

The most important thing is that the young man is old, as if he was born with leadership, Nantian has only looked at the horse, and has escaped the embryo of both civil and military.

Guo Mo even gave Zhang Shijie the "Qingyu Sword" he got this time, and told him the legendary story of this sword, which made Zhang Shijie excited.

He swore that he would live up to his master's expectations and would not dust his sword.

The onlookers were envious, and even the "Eastern Evil" Huang Yaoshi couldn't put it down with the "Qingyu Sword".

"Senior uncle, the sixth master is here, and he is also bringing a little boy, who was received by the senior aunt, and he is already watching tea in the 'Ling Qing Pavilion'."

Lu Guanying walked in and said softly.

Hu Yanfeng's mother and son were released from prison, more than ten days have passed, counting the days, the sixth master should also come.

"Shijie, Nantian, you go out with the teacher first."

When the two heard the master's instructions, they put down the books in their hands, looked at each other, and were overjoyed.

A group of four people entered the "Ling Qing Pavilion", and the "Downtown Heroes" Quan Blonde and Huang Rong were already seated, and behind the Blonde, there was a teenager.

This young man has a tiger's head, slightly darkened skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes, his height is a little fiercer than Nantian, and he also holds a spear in his hand.

The spear is a bit excessively long, all made of iron point steel, the spear shaft is one zhang long, the spear tip is eight inches long, and the blade is double-edged, making the shape of a snake.

This is the "Zhanghachi Snake Spear Gun"? It seems that this son is Huyande.

Guo Mo was very clear about the rewards of the imperial court, and many of them were also proposed by him, not to mention that every few days, Lu Chengfeng would send someone to send urgent news.

"Sixth Master—"

"I've seen the Sixth Master—"

Guo Mo took his apprentices to give a gift to the whole gold.

"Mo'er, how are the preparations for the 'martial arts'? Has your archery improved? Haha-"

Guo Mo's kung fu in the bow and arrow has always been his criticism.

As early as when he was in the desert, Guo Mo learned everything fast since he was a child, far from being comparable to Guo Jing.

is riding and shooting kung fu, Guo Mo is far inferior to his eldest brother Guo Jing, and he has been "teased" by several masters.

"Hehe, it's okay, next time I see my eldest brother again, I won't lose to him."

Hearing the teasing of the sixth master, Guo Mo didn't feel embarrassed, he was used to it anyway.

However, what he said himself was not entirely a joke.

Recently, in order to cope with the next "martial arts", I have indeed worked the bow and arrow, and the entry is also considerable.

In particular, Guo Mo was inspired by the "luck" technique of the "Coiling Dragon Stick Method".

He found that this kind of "luck" technique was different from the internal skills he cultivated, and it was applied to archery and imperial horses, and it actually received miraculous results.

In daily practice, the arrow target is moved to 200 steps away, and it can still shoot the red heart, and the hit rate is over 90%.

"The sixth master is not in the 'Mandarin Duck Villa', how can he think of 'Peach Blossom Island'? It seems that the disciple has only been visiting your old man for a long time, right? ”

Looking at the sixth master, he still looked a little incomprehensible, Guo Mo asked knowingly.

Of course, the blonde knew that it was the apprentice who was joking with himself.

"Mo'er, I came here today as a teacher, there is nothing else, I just came to send you an apprentice. De'er, go and kneel down to apprentice. ”

"Downtown Xiayin" didn't give Guo Mo a chance to refuse, and directly ordered Hu Yandedao.

Huyande, this kid is also real, he has recently gotten along with Quan Blonde, and the relationship is extremely harmonious, after listening to Quan Blonde's words, he walked over and bowed down.

As early as when he lived in prison, Quan Jinfa had already begun to teach Huyande the "Seven Styles of the Desert", and in the ten days since he lived in the "Mandarin Duck Villa", he also began to teach him "Huyan marksmanship".

In the past, Hu Yande had no strength, but now he has an authentic practice method, which he cherishes and works hard.

A natural martial artist, entering the realm is always incomprehensible to ordinary people.

From the cultivation of the "Seven Desert Styles" to the present, it has only been less than two months.

Hu Yande has completed the first layer of "desert dust" and began to enter the second layer of "The Wind Rises", and the "Downtown Heroes" are all blonde themselves, but they have just broken through to the fifth layer of "Wild Goose Gramophone".

Quan Blonde felt that he could no longer keep this child by his side, and that staying for an extra day would delay him.

After discussing with Hu Yanfeng, he personally took Hu Yande to find Guo Mo.

Although Hu Yanfeng also has a lot of reluctance to leave his son.

However, there was a chance to revive the Huyan family, and for the sake of his son's future, he finally agreed with tears.

Looking at Hu Yande, who was already kneeling on the ground, Guo Mo was speechless for a while.

"Sixth Master, you are really ......"

Huang Rong hasn't heard Guo Mo say anything about Hu Yande, but now that she is pregnant, it is when her mother's love is overflowing, and she is almost doting on Zhang Shijie and Wu Nantian's two apprentices on weekdays.

Seeing the two apprentices studying and practicing martial arts, they cooked for them to eat in person.

As for the youngest apprentice Yang Guo, even if Mu Nianci was there, Huang Rong did not fall behind, and sent some rare food over every once in a while.

Now seeing that another apprentice is about to enter the door, Guo Mo hasn't nodded yet, her senior sister stepped forward to help Hu Yande up, and her height is about to catch up with Huang Rong.

"What's your name? The master agreed and accepted you. ”

When Hu Yande heard this, he was overjoyed, and knelt down again to kowtow to Huang Rong.

"Back to my mother, my name is Hu Yande, I will be eleven years old soon, and I will kowtow to you."

At the time of coming, whether Hu Yanfeng or Quan Blonde, he told him many times that he must succeed in apprenticeship this time, and Hu Yande firmly remembered it in his heart.

"Okay, at the age of eleven, he has grown so tall, taller than Nantian. Shijie, Nantian, you all come over and meet the new junior brother. ”

Looking at Huang Rong's style, Guo Mo was speechless again.

Quan Blonde found out for the first time that Huang Rong, a little girl, was so "reasonable", how did she "run away" from people back then?

Since Huang Rong agreed, Guo Mo naturally had no reason to regret it, originally as soon as he saw Hu Yande, he had a good impression of this child.

"Guanying, you go to the 'Songfeng Pavilion', invite the three of them, and then go to the inner house to let your master and them come at noon. Oh, please come over to your second and fifth aunts. ”

Since it was decided to accept Hu Yande as an apprentice, he held a ceremony seriously, and Xiao Yang Guo had only said verbally before, so let's just officially accept it together this time.

Lu Guanying's eyes were hot, but he knew that he was impossible, and he had to inherit the "Peach Blossom Island" lineage.

At noon, the "Lingqing Pavilion" held a feast and gathered together.

"East Evil" Huang Yaoshi, Feng Heng and "Downtown Xia Yin" are all blonde, and the three of them are sitting upright.

It's not just Guo Mo himself who worships his apprentices, Huang Rong has always accepted apprentices with him, so their apprentices naturally have two inheritances.

After careful consideration, Guo Mo still made the final definition of the order of these apprentices.

The eldest apprentice, Zhang Shijie, is at least 12 years old; second apprentice Wu Nantian, early thirteen years old; The third apprentice, Hu Yande, is about to be eleven years old; The fourth apprentice, Yang Guo, is only one year and four months old.

Although today's main thing is to call Yande into the door, several apprentices collectively gave Guo Mo and Huang Rong a salute, and even Xiao Yang Guo was taken care of by Lu Guanying and kowtowed to the master.

With Guo Mo's ability and identity, he is bound to be unable to truly inherit and carry forward the foundation of the "Seven Monsters of Jiangnan" or "Peach Blossom Island", and these re-transmission disciples may become the pillars of the sect in the future.

After the apprenticeship ceremony, the "Downtown Heroes" returned to the "Mandarin Duck Villa", and Jiaxing should also buy some industry, and the people of the desert will come back in the future, and they will have something to do.

Hu Yande quickly integrated in, and studied literature together in the "Yuying Hall" in the morning, he is now almost zero-based, and Huang Rong once again served as the "enlightenment teacher", teaching alone on the side.

In the afternoon, they went to the martial arts arena behind the island.

When he first came into contact with equestrianism, Lu Guanying taught him to ride, and the main time was still practicing "Huyan marksmanship".

His height and strength were limited, and Hu Yande couldn't use the "Zhangba Snake Spear Gun" for the time being, so Guo Mo found him a big iron spear again.

Yang Tiexin, who came to "Peach Blossom Island", took on the task of teaching these young people marksmanship on a whim.

Lu Guanying, Zhang Shijie, and Wu Nantian all learned the "Yang Family Marksmanship" from him, while Guo Mo studied the "Huyan Marksmanship" on the side, and corrected the mistakes in Huyande's gun practice from time to time.

According to the characteristics of Hu Yande, Guo Mo decided to let him practice the "Seven Desert Styles" of the master master in terms of internal strength, and at the same time began to train him in the same way as Wu Nantian before.

In terms of palm technique, first teach him the "Chaoyang Palm", and then teach the follow-up exercises after practice.

With one more apprentice, the atmosphere of martial arts training is even better.

The three of them ate and lived together, and every day before dawn, they consciously got up and practiced in the martial arts arena in the courtyard on the second floor.

Guo Mo has also maintained the habit of morning exercises, and every time he arrives, Sanxiao has been practicing for a long time, and even Lu Guanying is there.

On the twenty-eighth day of the winter month, a few days later will be the day of the "martial arts" in Lin'an City, Guo Mo took Lu Guanying and said goodbye to everyone.

Originally, Huang Rong wanted to go with her, but she was almost four months pregnant, and her reaction was not as strong as before, and it was not yet time to show her pregnancy.

However, Guo Mo knew that she was pregnant with twins, so he was extremely nervous.

But he didn't let her get involved in any dangerous things, repeatedly told her not to go into the kitchen, and even taught a few apprentices to read, but he gave her a limited time.

He also designed a reclining chair for craftsmen to create, covered with a thick quilt, comfortable and warm in winter.

That night, Guo Mo and Lu Guanying lived in the fourth master, "Nanshan Qiaozi" Nan Xiren.

The scale of this "martial arts" far exceeded the scale of the past, with 10 quotas in each prefecture and 20 quotas per person in each prefecture.

Although not every place may have sent enough people, the number of participants in Beijing eventually exceeded 2,000, and there were more people in the active army than recommended by the prefectures.

The Privy Council and the Ministry of War even dispatched 5,000 soldiers to strengthen the maintenance of law and order in Lin'an City.

During the "martial arts" competition, Lin'an City rarely implemented a "curfew".

After the second watch, all liquor shops, restaurants, and brothels in Qinglou were not allowed to operate, and pedestrians were not allowed on the streets.

There were more than 2,000 people participating in the competition, and tens of thousands of relatives and friends who came with them came to see the excitement and take the opportunity to do small business.

All of a sudden, the business of Lin'an City is unprecedentedly hot, and restaurants, restaurants, and hotels are the most sought-after places.

Guo Mo naturally didn't have to worry about this, looking at the news about the "martial arts" sent by Lu Chengfeng in his hand, Guo Mo was also a little excited.

Such a grand occasion, if the "martial arts" can be like this every year, the martial arts of the Great Song Dynasty should be in full swing!

The competition system remains unchanged, and it is still archery, strategy, and horse warfare.

Due to the large number of people, archery was changed to the Jiaojun Ground in the south of Lin'an City.

They are all selected from all over the world, and the distance of foot shooting is directly raised to sixty paces, and the riding archery is from one hundred and twenty paces.

This time, Guo Mo did not miss again, and the infantry archery and mounted archery all hit the bull's-eye.

To be able to do this, according to the published results, there are three people, and the names and surnames of the other two are not known for a while.

In the big competition of Lin'an, there is no elimination in the archery link, but the score is recorded truthfully according to the results.

The next day's discussion was arranged to be held in the "Tribute Courtyard", and it was difficult to find a place to accommodate so many people elsewhere.

The strategy is very simple, "elaborate on the comparison of the strength of the Song and Jin countries and the strategy of breaking the gold".

For Guo Mo, this is simply a question to be sent, he has studied the "Wu Mu Testament" for so long, and its original name is "The Key to Breaking Gold".

After the two rounds of competition, there will be a two-day break to wait for the results of the strategy.

After the results of the strategy are out, the top 500 will be ranked according to the comprehensive results of the first two rounds.

In principle, these 500 people can stay in the army, but they also have to go through the third horse battle to determine 50 people on the list, and 10 people are "protégés of the Son of Heaven".

and those who were not within five hundred, but those who were in the army, went to their respective places.

Those recommended by Fuzhou can also go through the normal recruitment process and sign up for the army.

For others, the two-day rest is an anxious wait, because most people's road to "martial arts" is over.

But Guo Mo is really resting, in addition to eating and sleeping, he went to West Lake with Lu Guanying for a walk.

Two days later, a list of five hundred people was announced.

In order not to affect the performance of the third game, only the list of promoted players was announced, but the specific ranking was not announced.

The people on the list are naturally gratifying, and they are going to prepare for the third game that will be carried out soon, the horse war.

Some of the people who failed the list wanted to return to the original army, some wanted to sign up for the army, some left, and more stayed to watch the third competition.

The horse battle is more limited, especially since this is still 500 people participating, even if it is the military field in the south of the city, at most twenty battles can be arranged at one time.

There were two rounds in the morning, and only one hundred and twenty-five winners were eligible to enter the third round in the afternoon.

Guo Mo won very easily, and still maintained his consistent style, "five moves off the horse".

"Guanying, how are you?"

The lunch break lasted for more than half an hour, and the third round of the competition began.

"Fortunately, the second person was a little troublesome just now, the other party is a fierce general in the army, and he has a lot of experience in fighting, but it's a pity that he met me so early."

After following Guo Mo for a long time, he has also learned to be so immodest?

"You'd better be careful, the next competition will be more difficult, and you won't end up in the top 50."

In a few moments, the rules for the third game were announced.

From this point on, everyone used real weapons.

Swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, boring sticks, mallets, whips, hammers, and ...... Eighteen kinds of weapons, on the weapon rack, the platoon is full, all kinds of models, all kinds of weights.

From one to one hundred and twenty-five, one number plate is drawn for each person.

The examiner randomly draws a number from it, and the bye of this round will automatically enter the next round.

The rest of the people, the number in front of the draw, each have a destiny, catch and fight.

The bye was No. 68, a middle-aged man with a slightly short mustache, and a shallow scar on his face, and he didn't feel very happy to see his bye.

Guo Mo was the thirty-fifth and won the one hundred and one.

The other party was a man in his twenties, looking at his momentum, as if he had come out of the army.

"Please—"

The other party gave Guo Mo the word "please", and Guo Mo also hugged his fists.

Guo Mo still chose a gun, which weighed about thirty pounds, and he planned to use his newly practiced "Huyan marksmanship" to meet heroes from all walks of life.

The other party used a Daguan knife, and seeing that Guo Mo was unwilling to do it first, he urged him to step forward and cut it with a knife.

The big knife arrived with the sound of the wind, Guo Mo put the gun horizontally, and "raised fire to the sky", and with a slight effort, the big knife smashed into the barrel of the gun.

"Whew-"

The opponent's broadsword was broken more than four feet high, so that it could not be let go, but the tiger's mouth was cracked.

Seeing that Guo Mo just smiled slightly, the man knew that he was not this person's opponent.

Gritting his teeth, he picked up the big knife again, but he no longer touched Guo Mo's big gun, and greeted Guo Mo and his crotch dismounted.

The general pays attention to protecting his body and his horse, Guo Mo naturally can't let him get injured and sit off the horse.

The two horses circled and fought in one place.

Fighting together, Guo Mo looked at it coldly, this person can be regarded as proficient in swordsmanship, he takes out the knife and closes the knife, he is clean and neat, and he deserves to be a strong general.

To paraphrase Lu Guanying, "It's a pity that he met me so early." ”

In more than a dozen rounds, Guo Mo knocked his big knife away, and the steel gun was pointed at the opponent's chest.

"I lost—"

There was a gloom in the man's eyes.

"You're not bad, the 'martial arts' are over, if you don't want to go back to the original army, you can stay and find me, my name is Guo Mo."

Soon the top 50 were contested, and Guo Mo had another competition.

The opponent is not as strong as the man just now, and it seems that luck is sometimes crucial.

After winning the top 50 in the horse war, this is considered the person on the list today.

Combined with the first two archery and strategy, the ranking of 50 people was comprehensively discharged, and the top 10 won the title of "Protégé of the Son of Heaven" and was added to the knighthood.

And these top ten, tomorrow in front of the emperor, compete for the top three in this "martial arts".

"Everyone, how do you think the master is doing today?"

Hiding in the crowd, an old man with white eyebrows asked the person next to him.

"Hmph, it's boring, it's better to watch other people's battles."

"Gotta find a way to let this kid sell his strength tomorrow and go back-"