My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

Du Chengming took Chang An and Gu Li to the second floor of the restaurant and came to the old seat where they often sat. Cui Hujin and the other two had been waiting here for a long time, and even Wang Wei, who had always disliked such occasions, came.

Several people raised their hands to salute Chang An, and when they saw Gu Li standing beside Chang An, their faces suddenly changed. Only Wang Wei, who didn't know much about it, politely saluted and greeted Gu Li. At this time, Cui Hujin and the other two also came to their senses and greeted Gu Li.

Wang Wei saw that Du, Cui, Zhang, and Zhao looked a little strange, so he quietly asked Zhao Guanzhong, who was closest to him, "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

"It's not that I feel uncomfortable, it's that I feel inappropriate." Zhao Guanzhong also replied in a low voice.

"What's inappropriate? Madam Gu?"

But Zhao Guanzhong did not answer Wang Wei's question immediately, but exchanged glances with Chang An and the other four gentlemen, and the four nodded slightly at him. Then Zhao Guanzhong pulled Wang Wei to a corner and told him everything about Su Meng, Chang An and Gu Li. After listening, even a person as noble as Wang Wei could not help but change his expression slightly.

"But I see that Brother Yonghe dotes on Madam Gu very much, and he doesn't seem like the kind of person who has had an affair with Madam Su Meng." After hearing this, Wang Wei seemed to have a curious heart aroused, so he asked.

"Don't say that you don't think so, Brother Mojie. Even if we were all chopped to pieces, Brother Yonghe would never have an affair with Madam Su Meng." Zhao Guanzhong said, "The key to this matter is not Brother Yonghe and Madam Su Meng."

"It's about Madam Gu and Madam Su Meng. Brother Yonghe is just caught in the middle."

"Brother Zhao, what you mean is: if Madam Gu and Madam Su Meng meet later, who knows..." Wang Wei stopped talking after saying this.

Zhao Guanzhong nodded at him and said, "Just in case, if Madam Gu and Madam Su Meng really want to do something, we have to hold them back."

"Madam Gu is weak and gentle. If something really happens between her and Madam Su Meng, she will definitely suffer. If she gets hurt, with Brother Yonghe's temper, he might turn against Madam Su Meng."

Wang Wei also nodded at this time to show his understanding.

When Wang Wei and Zhao Guanzhong returned to their seats, Chang An and Gu Li had already taken their seats. The maid from Xinluan Restaurant also came up with wine. Chang An, who was closest, took the wine and poured a glass for all the gentlemen present. When it was Gu Li's turn, he paused for a moment and asked:

"Mrs. Gu, do you want to drink?"

Gu Li thought about it for a while and nodded, so Chang An also poured her a glass. After pouring the wine, everyone, including Gu Li, raised their glasses together and drank the wine in the glasses.

The position for several people was relatively good, with a window on one side and the other side close to the railing, so they could see the stage downstairs, so Chang An and his friends watched the music and dance downstairs while drinking.

Gu Li sat by the railing, looking downstairs. The wine glass beside her had been filled by Chang An for the second time, but she hadn't drunk it yet. Chang An seemed to have noticed something was wrong with her, so he came up to her and whispered:

"What's wrong, Gu Niang, are you a little bored?"

"A little bit." Gu Li then picked up the wine glass beside him, put it to his mouth and drank it.

"Do you want more?" Chang An asked again, "There is no tea here, nothing else can quench your thirst."

"Yes." Gu Li answered without even thinking.

"Mother Gu still has lung disease, so remember to drink more." Chang An pinched Gu Li's little hand and said, and Gu Li responded with a well-behaved smile.

After sitting at the table for a while, all the dishes were served. Gu Li no longer sat by the railing, but sat back next to Chang An, watching Chang An drinking and playing flying flowers while eating, and he didn't seem to find it boring.

"Why is it so lively today?"

As they were reading the poem, everyone suddenly heard a familiar voice. All the gentlemen, including Chang'an Wang Wei, couldn't help but tremble. They turned around and looked - it was the courtesan Su Meng.

"Why is there a wife here?" Su Meng held the pipa in one hand and a... teapot in the other?

At this time, Gu Li happened to turn around and look at Su Meng. All the gentlemen present tensed up and exchanged glances tacitly. If something was about to happen, they would step forward to stop it.

"Sister!"

The first words that Gu Li said were like a knock on the heads of all the gentlemen - Sister?

Gu Li and Su Meng are sisters? All the young men turned their doubtful eyes to Chang An, and Chang An shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. So everyone turned their attention back to Gu Li and Su Meng.

"Oh! Li'er, you're here as expected!" Su Meng was also a little surprised when she saw Gu Li. She quickened her pace and came to Gu Li's side and sat directly on the empty seat next to him.

"Su Meng meets all the gentlemen." She greeted.

The gentlemen also responded with a greeting of "Madam Su Meng". Su Meng put down the teapot in her hand, picked up the wine pot and poured a glass of wine for all the gentlemen present.

When it was Gu Li's turn, he put down the wine jug, poured the wine in Gu Li's cup out of the window, then picked up the teapot he brought and poured some tea into it.

"Li'er, you have lung disease, you can't drink with these gentlemen. It's better to drink tea."

The gentlemen were even more surprised, as they even knew that Gu Li had lung disease and could not drink alcohol.

Chang An couldn't help but wipe the sweat off his forehead. No wonder Gu Li said at home just now that her sister knew him and they were very familiar with each other.

But he and Su Meng were more than familiar with each other. They knew each other inside out. The two women who knew him best were actually sisters. They usually shared what they had with each other...

Chang An didn't dare to think any further when he thought of this. At this moment, he heard Gu Li say, "Chang Lang, this is my sister. I told you that you know each other."

Although Gu Li looked harmless, all the gentlemen, including Wang Wei, couldn't help but worry for Chang An.

"I know him... I know him..." Chang An laughed dryly and replied.

Su Meng and Gu Li couldn't help but laugh when they saw Chang An's embarrassed look.

"Chang'an, look at yourself. It's fine that you bring other men to the restaurant on weekdays, but today you even instigated Li'er to come here. What's your meaning?" Su Meng spoke at this time and questioned Chang'an.

"Sister, I wanted to come and see you, so I asked Chang Lang and Du Langjun to bring me here." When Gu Li saw Su Meng questioning Chang An, he hurried out to explain.

"Really?" Su Meng looked at Gu Li and said, "Okay, I believe Li'er."

At this time, Du Chengming, Cui Hujin and others also hurriedly picked up their glasses and toasted Chang An to ease his embarrassment. Su Meng and Gu Li did not disturb them, but gathered together and whispered.

After drinking for a while, Du Chengming seemed to feel that drinking without any effort was meaningless, so he called a maid and asked her to fetch a sturdier long board. Then he said to the gentlemen present:

"Drinking alone is boring, and I'm tired of playing flying flower games. Let's do something fun today."

"What to play?" Several gentlemen asked, and Gu Li and Su Meng, who were chatting nearby, were attracted.

"Brothers, please look at that corner..." Du Chengming pointed to a corner not far away, and then continued: "We will put a long board at that corner, and then some people will go up there, drink and write poems, one sentence at a time, and only those who have written or responded to poems can come down."

All the gentlemen looked at the corner. There was a pool below the corner. Even if they fell in, nothing would happen. But Gu Li was a little reluctant at this time, so she looked at Chang An, and Chang An also felt Gu Li's gaze and looked at her.

Chang An could naturally see that Gu Li obviously didn't want him to play this game.

At this time, Du Chengming also saw Gu Li's worry, so he said again: "Brother Yonghe, forget it. With your talent, it is undoubtedly just a walk up with a wine glass in hand. How boring it is."

"Then let Brother Yonghe be the one who sets the questions. Brother Yonghe will decide the rhyme and the topic, but they cannot be repeated, otherwise he will be punished to drink!" Cui Hujin also said in agreement.

After hearing that Chang An didn't need to go up, Gu Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon, the maid brought the long board over with others and placed it on the corner according to Du Chengming's instructions. Then Du Chengming stepped on it with a wine glass and said, "Brother Yonghe, you can ask the questions now!"

Chang An smiled, glanced at Gu Li, and then said, "My mother Gu is seventeen this year, so why not use seventeen yuan as the rhyme; then use the winter solstice as the theme; and embed a cup - the cup of wine glass; finally, my mother Gu was born in July, so make it a seven-character regulated verse."

Du Chengming was dumbfounded when he heard this and said, "Brother Yonghe, apart from Madam Gu and Madam Su Meng, you and I have the best relationship. Why do you ask me such a difficult question?"

"What? Madam Gu wants to eat some vegetables?" Chang An pretended to ignore Du Chengming's complaint, turned around and picked up some vegetables for Gu Li, then looked back at Du Chengming and said, "Brother Du, what did you say? Don't say anything for now. You can't leave the board until you can make it."

Du Chengming had no choice but to stand on the long board and wrote a decent poem according to Chang An's request before coming down. The second person to go up was Cui Hujin. This time, Chang An seemed to have prepared the topic in advance and said directly:

"My mother Gu's birthday was on July 14, so I chose 14 yuan as the rhyme, and the title was wine glass. I also embedded the word 门 (door), which means door at the entrance. It is also a seven-character regulated verse."

Du Chengming felt instantly balanced now. Compared with his own theme of the winter solstice, this one with the wine glass as the theme was obviously more difficult.

They walked like this for quite a while. Apart from Chang An who asked the questions, even Su Meng went up and walked around, and responded better than Du, Cui, Zhang and Zhao. Not to mention the famous poet Wang Wei, who immediately composed the famous poem "Lovesickness".

In addition to applauding, Chang An was also slightly puzzled in his heart: Isn't this the poem Wang Wei gave to Li Guinian? How come it was written now? Could it be that because of his introduction to Wang Wei, history was changed, causing Wang Wei to write about lovesickness in advance?

After thinking for a while, Du, Cui, Zhang and Zhao seemed to want to avenge the question they had just asked, so they came up with wine glasses, pretending to toast Chang An, but in fact, they didn't care whether Gu Li was next to them or not, they just wanted to get him drunk.

At first, Gu Li didn't notice anything and continued chatting with Su Meng. But when there was about half an hour left before curfew, Su Meng gently patted Gu Li's hand and reminded him with a smile:

"Li'er, if you don't stop him, Chang'an won't be able to walk tonight."

Gu Li realized at this time that Chang An seemed to have drunk quite a lot, so he reached out and picked up his own wine glass filled with tea, and said, "My dear gentlemen, curfew is about to come, and I need to take my Chang Lang back home. Why don't you let me take care of Chang Lang's glasses of wine?"

Du, Cui, Zhang, and Zhao had also drunk a lot, but when they saw someone coming out to block the wine for Chang An, they stopped being aggressive, waved their hands, and said:

"Since Madam Gu wants to take Brother Yonghe back, we can't stay any longer."

"We are good friends with Brother Yonghe, so we will naturally not make things difficult for him."

After getting the consent, Gu Li finished the tea in the cup, and then left Xinluan Restaurant with Su Meng and the slightly drunk Chang An.

Arriving at the entrance of the restaurant, Chang An asked in a low voice: "Did the brothers follow me out?"

After hearing this, Gu Li looked back and said, "No."

"That's good......"

Chang An stood up straight and relaxed his shoulders, looking like nothing happened. Gu Li was stunned for a moment, and then he said, "Those guys wanted to take revenge on me, so they brought wine to try to get me drunk."

"Chang Lang, are you not drunk?" Gu Li asked in disbelief.

"I'm not drunk. I just saw that curfew was approaching and I wouldn't be able to go home if I drank any more. Plus Su Meng cooperated with me, so I pretended to be drunk and escaped." Chang An explained with a smile, "The most important thing is that my mother Gu hasn't taken the medicine tonight."

Su Meng looked at them at this time, and scolded with a smile: "I have asked someone to prepare the carriage, you two can go back and be sweet, don't provoke me here."

"Okay, sister, we'll go first."

At this time, Gu Li took Chang An's hand, smiled at Su Meng, and took Chang An into the car and headed towards Anrenfang.