When Zhao Hao finished reading the letter from his hometown, he saw his elder brother Gao had been waiting there for a long time.

"Sir, it's time to practice."

As soon as he made eye contact with Zhao Hao, Gao Wu blurted out.

Apparently, he had been holding this sentence in his heart for a long time, just waiting for the young master to look up.

"Oh? Going to practice again?" Zhao Hao suddenly felt that the day was not so warm anymore.

"Practicing martial arts is all about persistence." Gao Wu showed a ferocious smile and said, "I won't let you give up halfway."

"It's clearly just two words, okay?" Zhao Hao whined, but still went in obediently to change into a neat training suit, and then was grabbed by Gao Wu with a thousand fists.

But after these days, the effect is very obvious. At least after finishing the exercise, although my whole body is still sore, I am not unable to get out of bed.

So Zhao Hao followed Gao Wu back to the yard to practice the hell version of Eight Section Brocade.

Under Gao Wu's strict supervision, he managed to master the first three moves, and today he would challenge the fourth move - 'Continuous Punch and Kick Stance Hunyuan'.

The first few movements of this move were fine, but when it came to the third step, where the right fist was level with the head, the right leg supported the body, the upper body quickly turned to the right, and the left leg was raised backward and upward to touch the returning right fist, Zhao Hao couldn't do it at all.

How can this left leg hook my right fist from behind?

Not to mention, at the same time, the left fist has to be raised to the left front, and the head has to be turned right to look at the left foot...

If Gao Wu hadn't stretched his muscles these days, Zhao Hao would have twisted his waist whenever he posed.

Gao Wu helped him lift his left leg up from behind and asked him to use his right hand to grab his left foot behind him.

Zhao Hao was just using all his strength to reach his hands behind his back when he saw the young master Li Chengen walking in leisurely from outside.

Seeing Zhao Hao's movements, he couldn't help but blurt out: "Hey, are they going to take off?"

Zhao Hao rolled his eyes at him and said, "You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth."

"Brother Zhao is absolutely right. My brother just doesn't speak in tune."

Li Mingyue followed the young master in and bowed to Zhao Hao, saying, "My sister greets you, brother."

She was wrapped in a beautiful peacock feather crane cloak and a white fox snow hat on her head. With her delicate little face, she looked like a little person walking out of a painting.

"The county lady is here too." Zhao Hao no longer needed to practice martial arts. He smiled and took the robe Gao Wu offered him, put it on and said, "Please come in and sit down."

After saying this, he remembered that they were still cleaning inside, so he added: "The main room is a mess, if you two don't mind, please go to the inner room and get on the kang."

Li Chengen waved behind him and said, "By the way, I am here to give you a gift on my mother's orders."

As he spoke, he took out the gift list from that day and threw it to Zhao Hao, saying, "Count it and see if there is anything missing."

Then, the eunuchs from the Princess's Mansion were seen carrying in heavy boxes one after another.

Zhao Hao's heart was immediately filled with joy. That day, his father acted noble in front of the princess and rejected the generous gift from his mother, which made him feel very distressed.

I didn't expect that my mother was just so mean. She couldn't refuse the things she gave away...

However, he threw the list to Gao Wu as if nothing had happened, asked him to bring people to help, and then invited the brother and sister to come into the house and sit down again.

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As soon as Li Chengen entered the main room, he saw the little guard from that day, squatting on the ground and mopping the floor.

He couldn't help but laugh, and walked over and said with a smile: "Hey. Aren't you the gatekeeper? Why, you changed to cleaning?"

"This is my own home, I can do whatever I want."

Li Chengen couldn't help but laugh, and kicked him on the butt and said, "You really don't consider yourself an outsider."

"How am I an outsider?" Zhao Shixi said angrily, "This is my home. This is the house my father bought!"

"What about your father?" Li Chengen asked with a smile.

"Didn't I tell you that I was going to Guizhou to be the governor?" Zhao Shixi rolled his eyes at him and continued to wipe the floor with his butt sticking out.

"Is it true?" Li Chengen turned around and asked Zhao Hao for confirmation.

"Well, this is his family's house. He is the second son of Zhao Zhongcheng, the governor of Guizhou." Zhao Hao nodded, lifted the curtain and invited the two to enter the inner room.

"Oh my god, you really let the son of the governor guard the gate?" Li Chengen was stunned. He thought the boy was mentally ill last time. "Isn't this too respectable? It's much higher class than the Jinyi centurion who guards the gate of my house."

"It's different." Zhao Hao shook his head. Seeing that he was standing motionless in the main room, he lowered the curtain and went into the inner room with Li Mingyue.

Li Chengen walked up to Zhao Shixi and asked with a smile, "Who is he to you? How dare he bully you?"

"My uncle..." Zhao Shixi lowered his head shyly.

"What, what? He is your uncle?" Li Chengen widened his eyes and looked at Zhao Shixi in disbelief.

Zhao Shixi nodded silently.

"Hahaha, then you have to call me uncle." Li Chengen laughed heartily and said, "Come on, call me uncle and let me hear it."

"Get out! You've made the floor dirty even though we just cleaned it!" Zhao Shixi was furious when he saw the footprints all over the floor.

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In the inner room, Zhao Hao asked Li Mingyue to sit on the kang, and then made her a cup of tea.

"Brother Zhao, what were you doing just now?" Li Mingyue obviously also saw the strange action of Zhao Hao just now.

"Uh..." Zhao Hao blushed and said, "I practiced Ba Duan Jin with Brother Gao."

"Is it the Shaolin method, the Wudang method, or the Yue family method?" Li Mingyue became excited when she heard this. After she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong, so she whispered, "I see my brother often practices. I am a weak woman, so naturally I don't know how to do any boxing or kicking."

"It was the Yue family who broke the tendons." Zhao Hao heard that she was also an outsider, and finally found someone to complain to. He then complained:

"I just wanted to keep fit, but I didn't know it would be so difficult. For example, the move I practiced today actually requires me to kick my legs up from behind. Isn't this going to kill me? My waist is about to break..."

"Isn't it? Who can do it?" Li Mingyue thought to herself, "This is easy, right? I can even kick myself in the back of the head." But she looked at Zhao Hao with sympathy and said, "Brother Zhao, don't push yourself too hard."

"I still need to practice. I feel my legs and feet are much more flexible these days, and I'm not as afraid of the cold as before." Zhao Hao shook his head, as if he remembered something, turned around and rummaged through the drawers, and found an exquisite sandalwood box.

"I can't let you call me brother for nothing, just take it and play with it."

"Is this for me?" Li Mingyue sat up in surprise, took the wooden box with both hands, and after opening it, she saw several things made of crystal and brass placed on the velvet lining inside.

"What are these things?" Li Mingyue first picked up a round crystal embedded in a brass hoop.

"This is called a magnifying glass." Zhao Hao took it from her and held it in front of his eyes. "It can magnify what you see."

Li Mingyue saw his eyes suddenly become as big as cow eyes, and couldn't help but giggle. She quickly grabbed it, held it in front of her eyes and looked around, and couldn't help but exclaimed repeatedly: "Wow, it's amazing, it's several times bigger."

"But don't look at the sun." Zhao Hao reminded her.

"Why?" Li Mingyue asked, and suddenly remembered the scene on Miaofeng Mountain where two people were grinding ice to make fire, so she blurted out, "Isn't this the same as that piece of ice?"

"Smart." Zhao Hao gave a thumbs up and said, "Yes, they are all convex lenses that can focus light. If you think they can light cotton on fire, they can also burn your eyes..."

Li Mingyue nodded like a chick pecking at rice, tightly holding the small magnifying glass. She couldn't help but think of the small shelter they built with their own hands on Miaofeng Mountain that day, and the fire that was lit with ice...

She thought happily in her heart that this was made especially for me to commemorate our meeting that day.

In fact, Zhao Hao just didn't have anything good to show for it, so he gave her the spare teaching aids...

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