My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, since there was nothing to do today, Chang An instinctively started to sleep in again, but Gu Li got up very early today. She washed up in a hurry, ran back to the bed, and shook Chang An who was still asleep.

"Chang Lang! Chang Lang! Don't sleep in!"

Chang An was suddenly awakened by Gu Li. He sat up slowly and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year!" Gu Li said excitedly.

"What's wrong with the second year of junior high school? Is there anything else to do?" Chang An yawned.

"I want to go back to my mother's house. Chang Lang wants to take me back." Gu Li said, "Chang Lang, go wash up quickly."

As she spoke, she puffed up her cheeks and stared at Chang An fiercely. Chang An could only sigh: Who asked me to spoil her? So, Chang An nodded and said:

"Okay, okay, but Madam Gu needs to change my clothes."

As he spoke, Chang An opened his arms, and Gu Li naturally showed a sweet smile, sat up from the bed, stretched out his two little hands to grab one of Chang An's arms, and pulled him up from the bed. Then he jumped to the clothes rack, took Chang An's clothes, and dressed Chang An neatly.

Then, Gu Li pulled him to the basin, wet the towel, and put it in Chang An's hand. Chang An had no choice but to wash up after Gu Li's half-hearted push.

After washing up, Chang An brought Gu Li to the kitchen with a basin of water and handed it to the servant. Then he brought Gu Li to the stove where the medicine was boiling. The medicine had just been boiled, and Zhen'er carefully poured it out of the pot.

"Sanniang, take your medicine." Zhen'er said.

Gu Li nodded, took the medicine bowl directly, and went outside with the bowl. Chang An looked at Gu Li with some doubts, and saw her put the medicine bowl on the snow, and then used her small hands to push some snow around the medicine bowl, as if wrapping it up.

Chang An asked with some confusion: "Mother Gu, what are you doing?"

"Let the medicine cool down faster." Gu Li said as he squatted on the ground and blew gently into the bowl.

After a while, the snow around the bowl melted a little, so Gu Li picked up the bowl, put it to his mouth, and drank it all. Then he simply wiped the corners of his mouth, took the bowl back to the kitchen, took Chang An's hand, and said:

"Chang Lang, we can set off now."

Chang An looked at Gu Li's joy and excitement and couldn't help but feel a little amused. He scratched her nose and said, "Are you going back to your mother's house like this?"

"What's wrong?" Gu Li was a little confused at this time. He lowered his head and checked his body, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong.

"Are we going empty-handed?" Chang An asked with a smile.

"Ah!" Gu Li was stunned for a moment, then he realized that he didn't seem to have prepared any gifts, "Then what should we bring?"

Chang An smiled and said, "If Gu Niang wants to go back in a hurry, then we can pack some snacks and candies and send them over."

"Okay!" Gu Li agreed immediately, and then ordered the servants to take a lot of snacks and candies and put them in boxes. Then he took some white sugar and put it in a pocket, and nodded with satisfaction.

The gift of greeting was ready, and Chang An brought Gu Li to the door. The carriage had been waiting at the door of Chang's mansion for some time, so the two of them got on the carriage directly.

The carriage drove all the way from Anrenfang to Guangdefang. When the gatekeeper at the gate of Gu's house saw the carriage stop at his door and saw Gu Li and Chang An get off the carriage, he immediately shouted happily:

"Sanniang is back!"

One of the doormen ran into the mansion happily, probably to report it. The other doorman also said happily: "Sanniang, son-in-law, you are here!"

"Is father at home?" Gu Li asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes, A'lang is in the study right now." The doorman replied, "Sanniang and your husband can go directly to find A'lang."

Gu Li nodded slightly, and then took Chang An into the Gu Mansion. Gu Ke also received the notification from the concierge in advance, and came out of the study happily, just in time to see Gu Li walking over with Chang An, holding a basket in his hand.

"Li'er! Yonghe!" Gu Ke shouted happily.

"Father."

"Father-in-law."

Chang An and Gu Li greeted each other and handed the basket to Gu Ke. Gu Ke did not take the basket directly, but took their arms and walked into the study room, where he arranged for them to sit down.

"Father-in-law, Mother Gu felt it was not nice to come to see you empty-handed, so she prepared some snacks, candies and sugar. Please don't mind." Chang An put the basket in his hand on the table.

Unexpectedly, Gu Ke didn't even look at it, but moved the basket aside and said, "It's good that you can come. The gifts are not important."

"Father, what are you talking about?" Gu Li said with a smile.

"Father-in-law, you don't know that before I woke up today, Mother Gu was already anxious to come back to see you." Chang An said, holding Gu Li's hand.

"No hurry, no hurry," Gu Ke's eyebrows were bent all the time, and he was very happy, "Even if you come this afternoon, I'm happy."

Gu Li smiled and asked, "Where are the two brothers?"

"Oh, a servant has already gone to call them..."

As Gu Ke was speaking, the door of his study was pushed open. Standing at the door were the brothers Gu Baizhi and Gu Huashuo, who looked out of breath, as if they had run over after receiving the news.

"Speak of the devil."

"Li'er is really back!" Gu Baizhi said happily when he saw Gu Li sitting next to Gu Ke.

The two brothers came to the table excitedly and sat down. Seeing them like this, Gu Ke laughed and scolded, "Li'er, look at them, they are so impatient. I clearly went to see you yesterday, but you are still so anxious today."

"My two brothers love me so much, it's normal for them to rush here." Gu Li said, "I wanted to come back yesterday, but there were too many guests at home and I couldn't get away."

"Besides, it's not suitable to come back on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so we can only postpone it until today."

"Why bother with all this? As long as Li'er wants to come back, we welcome him. We don't care about taboos." Gu Huashuo smiled so hard that he couldn't stop.

As they were talking, even Gu Su came to the study. When Gu Li saw Gu Su come in, he also shouted happily: "Mother!"

Chang An also called out politely: "Mother-in-law."

"Good boy, it's good to come back and see you." Gu Su looked at Gu Li lovingly, "It's only been one day since we last met, but I feel like Li'er has grown up like a young lady."

When Gu Li heard this, his face immediately turned red. He looked at Chang An and found that he was also a little embarrassed. Although Gu Ke and his son, three rough men, could not see anything, Gu Su immediately understood when she saw their reactions.

"She was a little childish before, but now she's a mature daughter-in-law." Gu Su said, and sat down with a smile.

"Li'er is already married, so how can she not be the eldest daughter-in-law?" Gu Ke thought it was natural, so he said so.

"Yes, yes, yes." Gu Su also agreed, "Li'er, you and your good son-in-law should stay for lunch today before leaving. I will ask someone to buy some ribs."

"Buy another fish. Chang Lang loves to eat fish." Gu Li grabbed Gu Su who was about to give instructions and said.

Gu Su patted her hands and said lovingly, "You've only been married for a short time, but your little head is already full of thoughts about your husband."

"Mom!" Gu Li shook Gu Su's hand.

"Okay, okay, you can act as coquettishly as you want. I didn't say I wouldn't buy it." Gu Su said with a smile, and then called a servant over and gave him some instructions.

While chatting, Gu Ke suddenly thought of something, stood up and said, "I'll go out for a while and get something."

Gu Li was a little confused and asked, "What is father going to get?"

"It's something for my son-in-law." Gu Ke said mysteriously, then turned and left.

Not long after, Gu Ke came in with a box, walked straight to Chang An, stuffed the brocade box into Chang An's hand, and said, "Good son-in-law, this is for you."

Chang An was stunned for a moment, and Gu Ke also stretched out his hand, motioning him to open it and have a look. Chang An looked at Gu Li again, and she also nodded, motioning him to open it.

So, Chang An slowly opened the brocade box, and inside lay a round jade pendant, which was carved with the image of two unicorns holding up the sun, and a silk rope was twisted into a ring outside, enclosing the unicorns holding up the sun; there were two jade pendants with tiger face patterns on the top and bottom. However, Chang An didn't know much about jade, so he poked Gu Li with his elbow and whispered:

"Mrs. Gu, this jade..."

"..."

Gu Li didn't say anything, so Chang An looked up at her with some confusion, and found that she was also a little stunned, so he poked her again. Gu Li came back to her senses and whispered:

"This entire jade pendant is made of Lantian jade, and it is of extremely high quality."

Lantian jade? Chang An asked again: "Is this jade pendant...very valuable?"

"Excluding the cost of carving the jade, a piece of Lantian jade this big alone is worth hundreds of taels."

After Gu Li finished speaking, Chang An closed the box with a snap, put it back on the table, and said to Gu Ke, "Father-in-law, this is too valuable. I can't take it."

"Hey! Just take it if you give it to me." Gu Ke said, "It's just Lantian jade."

"Father, this is indeed too expensive. This is not appropriate." Gu Li also chimed in.

"There's no question of whether it's suitable or not. This jade pendant was originally intended to be given to you as a dowry when you get married." Gu Ke said with a smile.

"I had given this piece of jade to someone to carve before, but I never thought Yonghe would act so quickly and marry you before the jade was even carved."

"This..." Gu Li opened his mouth, but didn't know how to refuse.

"This is also Gu Niang's stuff, you shouldn't give it to me." Chang An said, "Gu Niang's stuff belongs to Gu Niang, and the dowry is also hers, it's not appropriate to give it to me."

Gu Ke was stunned for a moment, then he put the box in Gu Li's hand and said, "Then give it to Li'er."

"I...I don't want it either." Gu Li stuffed the box back.

"Li'er, just take this. Don't refuse it." Gu Su also interrupted, "If you don't accept this, your father might give you something more expensive in the future."

Gu Li and Chang An looked at each other, and saw helplessness in each other's eyes. Gu Li sighed and had to accept it, because it would be given to Chang Lang in the end anyway.