My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

Today is the third day after marriage, and Chang An got up on time as usual. When he got up, he also heard Gu Li cough lightly, and it seemed that he had woken up too.

After Chang An put on his clothes, he went outside the courtyard and asked Huaiqin to bring some water. Gu Li also got up and put on his clothes at this time.

"We are going to pay respect to our ancestors today." Chang An said, "We will go to the West Market to buy some things for the visit."

"Yeah." Gu Li also put on his clothes and responded, then asked, "Doesn't Chang Lang have to go to the Imperial College to study today?"

"I also want to go with you to pay respect to the ancestors," Chang An replied, "so I asked for leave yesterday."

Chang An applied for leave from the Imperial College yesterday before leaving school, because according to tradition, on this day, Chang An would take Gu Li to the ancestral temple to pay respect to the ancestors, commonly known as the temple meeting. This means that their marriage must be made known to the ancestors and recognized by all ancestors.

After they washed up and the carriage was ready, they got on and headed straight to the West Market to buy things.

After the two of them arrived at the West Market in the carriage, Chang An lifted the curtain of the window and looked at the shops and vendors around him. When he was thinking about what to buy, Gu Li suddenly spoke:

"Chang Lang, the Double Ninth Festival is coming soon. Do you want us to buy some things for the festival?"

After hearing this, Chang An counted on his fingers and it seemed that the Double Ninth Festival was indeed approaching, so he nodded in agreement.

"That's fine, it will save us some trouble then."

So, under Gu Li's instructions, she bought some livestock meat and new wine for ancestor worship, as well as some things for the Double Ninth Festival. And because Gu Li was going to cook today, she also bought some vegetables.

After returning home, Chang An and Gu Li bathed and burned incense respectively. Then, after everything was ready, Chang An took Gu Li to the ancestral hall at home.

After worshipping the ancestors, Gu Li would go into the kitchen and do the housework herself, that is, cook the meals herself.

Gu Li came to the kitchen, put on an apron and started cooking, and Chang An followed behind her. Gu Li originally wanted Chang An to go back to his room to study, but Chang An just responded verbally and continued to follow her. Seeing this, she didn't say anything more, but let him follow.

Chang An watched Gu Li first count the ingredients bought today, and after making a simple plan in his mind about what dishes to cook, he started to work.

"Mrs. Gu?"

"Hey."

"You can cook too." Chang An said, "I think you're a very good cook."

He watched Gu Li wash the pot and rice and then process the ingredients. Her movements were very skillful and it was obvious that this was not her first time cooking.

"I learned it by myself when I was a child, so I can do it naturally." Gu Li didn't even raise his head and continued with the work in his hands.

"I want to eat, too."

"No!" Gu Li said seriously, "This is for my father and the neighbors. Chang Lang can only eat the food in the kitchen today."

At this moment, she suddenly felt a warm touch on her face, which startled her and made her face blush.

"Chang Lang, there are still people here..."

"I also want to eat the food cooked by my mother Gu." After playing rogue, Chang An still insisted.

"Chang Lang, why are you like a child..." Gu Li said in a low voice, and looked around to see if anyone noticed them.

But Chang An had sent the servants out in advance, so now there were only the two of them in the kitchen.

Gu Li raised his head slightly and looked at Chang An, and saw that he was looking at him with a somewhat "pitiful" look, and he was shaking his arm, looking "wronged". Gu Li knew that the other party was pretending, but he still felt a little soft-hearted, so he agreed:

"Okay, okay, when we were shopping for groceries today, I asked Zhen'er and Huaiqin to buy some more. I'll cook it for Changlang at dinner tonight, okay?"

"really?"

"Yeah." Gu Li nodded. Looking at Chang An smiling, he also felt inexplicably happy.

"Then I won't bother you, Gu Niang," Chang An kissed her on the face again, then ran away, leaving a sentence: "I'm going back to read!"

Gu Li looked at the direction where Chang An ran away, raised his hand to touch the place where he had just been kissed, smiled gently, then lowered his head to continue the work at hand.

By the time the soup was ready, it was almost noon. Gu Li divided the whole pot of soup into food boxes, called Chang An, and went to distribute it to the neighbors together.

When the neighbors opened the door, they saw a breathtakingly beautiful woman standing at the door, followed by Chang An, and they couldn't help but wonder. It wasn't until Chang An explained it to them that they suddenly realized what was going on, and they all took the soup and drank it. After drinking it, they couldn't help but praise Gu Li's cooking skills and said that Chang An was very lucky.

After distributing the soup in the food boxes, Gu Li kept some specifically for Chang Wenmeng.

When the two returned to the mansion, Chang Wenmeng also returned home. Gu Li hurried to the kitchen to serve the soup and handed it to Chang Wenmeng respectfully. Chang Wenmeng also took it with a smile on his face. After taking a sip, he nodded with satisfaction and said:

“This soup is really good.”

"Thank you, father." Gu Li was relieved at this time.

After Chang Wenmeng finished his soup, he stroked his beard, looked at Gu Li, then looked at Chang An, and felt very satisfied with the couple he had brought together. He couldn't help but say:

"I have good taste. The two of you standing here are truly a pair of talented men and beautiful women."

Gu Li felt a little embarrassed by what he said, but Chang An was scratching his head and laughing. Seeing this, Chang Wenmeng didn't want to keep them and let them go.

Back in the room, Gu Li sat at the low table as usual and continued sewing something, while Chang An took something from the desk, hid it behind his back, and came to Gu Li.

"Mrs. Gu?"

"Hey." Gu Li raised his head and looked at Chang An, and found that Chang An had his hands behind his back, as if hiding something, so he asked: "Chang Lang, what are you doing..."

"I see that you have been working hard all morning. Why don't you stop doing needlework and do something else to relax." Chang An did not answer Gu Li's question.

"If you don't do needlework, what else can you do?" Gu Li asked with some confusion.

"Here..." Chang An stretched out his hand from behind his back, holding a book. He handed it to Gu Li and said, "Mother Gu, read this today and relax."

Gu Li took the book, opened it and looked at the contents. His eyes lit up immediately and he said in surprise, "This is a collection of poems!"

She flipped through several pages and asked, "Whose poetry collection is this? It's really well written."

"Guess?" Chang An sat next to her and said mysteriously.

"Hmm..." Gu Li looked at the poems inside, "This person's literary talent is good, like Li Bai's, but the style of the poems is varied... Could it be that they were written by many poets? But I haven't heard of these poems..."

She flipped through a few more pages, as if she had thought of something, and looked at Chang An again, "I see, this was written by Chang Lang, right?"

Chang An's eyebrows curved and he nodded, "My mother Gu is smart."

Gu Li smiled and started to look through it again, "How much is written?"

“This whole book.”

"The whole book!" Gu Li was a little surprised. "So many! Did you write them all yourself, Chang Lang?"

Chang An just smiled and didn't comment. After all, they were all famous poems and quatrains by poets after the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. It was not right to admit it, nor was it right to deny it. He just let her guess it herself.

"Chang Lang's literary talent is really good," Gu Li said with great joy, "Not only does he write a lot, but he also writes very well, and his poetic style is also different."

"Like it?"

"Of course I like it!"

Gu Li turned back to the first page and was about to start reading when a hand blocked the page. She raised her head in confusion and looked at Chang An.

"I've already told you to go to the desk, it's bright there." Chang An said, "It's not bright enough here, it's easy to damage your eyes."

Gu Li nodded obediently, then stood up and followed Chang An to the desk. After taking a look at Chang An, he began to read the first poem, and Chang An also started to read his own books at this time.

The first poem was a bit long. Gu Li read it carefully and couldn't help but recite the last sentence: "How can one achieve both in this world, not disappointing the Tathagata and not disappointing you..."

She read to the end, pondered it carefully, but could not make out the general idea, so she cried out:

"Chang Lang."

"what happened?"

"I have finished reading the first poem, but I don't quite understand its meaning." Gu Li raised his head and looked at Chang An with his watery eyes.

Chang An also stretched his head over, looked at the poem that Gu Li pointed at, and said, "This poem was written by a friend of mine."

"Friend?" Gu Li put his finger on his chin and began to think about Chang An's friend.

"My friend is not in Chang'an City," Chang An explained after seeing her expression, "My friend is in the Snow Mountain. He is the most powerful person in the Snow Mountain."

"Chang Lang still has friends in the Snow Mountain." Gu Li nodded, not quite understanding. "So what is this poem about?"

"My friend was a monk in the snowy mountains, and he was called a venerable at a young age, but he had a woman he loved very much." Chang An said, "You also know that Buddhists cannot have worldly obsessions. He wanted to return to secular life but was not allowed to do so by Yunxi, and his woman was also driven out of the snowy mountains. My friend was so sad that he wrote this poem."

After hearing this, Gu Li nodded sympathetically and said, "He is indeed a pitiful man."

"What's wrong?" Chang An looked at her sad expression and asked, "Are you afraid that I will break up with you?"

Gu Li's face turned red as his thoughts were touched upon. He quickly covered it up by saying, "I'm not... I'm not afraid."

Chang An looked at her like this, stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek, and said: "My friend is the best way to have the best of both worlds, not to disappoint the Tathagata and not to disappoint you."

"I am different. I will marry a wife first and then pass the imperial examination. I will not let down the Tathagata or you."

Gu Li was teased by him, and the little sadness in his heart disappeared immediately, but he still pretended to be a little disgusted and said:

"Bah, Chang Lang, what are you doing? It's not elegant at all."

"It's not very beautiful." Chang An moved closer to Gu Li, leaned close to her ear, and teased her, "Does Gu Niang not want me to marry you, or does she not want me to pass the imperial examination?"

"Of course not!" Gu Li realized that he was teased by Chang An again, and a touch of red reached his ears. "I just said that the revision is not beautiful enough, I didn't say that the poem is not good..."

As she was talking, she suddenly patted Chang An with the poetry collection, then knelt down towards him, so that she was the same height as Chang An who was sitting cross-legged, her eyes fixed on Chang An.

"On the day of our wedding, Chang Lang kept saying that I was the most powerful, why has he been bullying me all the time today?"

As he said this, he pretended to be angry and puffed up his cheeks, looking very cute.

After being patted, Chang An was slightly stunned, and then seemed to understand something. He then took the poetry collection from her hand, took her two white jade-like hands, rubbed them gently, and said: "Then Gu Niang can also bully me."

"Really?" Gu Li stared at Chang An.

"Of course."

"Then I will..." Gu Li suddenly leaned forward, leaving a faint lip mark on Chang An's face.

"Then I will be rude to Changlang."