My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

Tomorrow is the Double Ninth Festival. Huaiqin and Zhen'er are sitting in the courtyard, doing embroidery in preparation for tomorrow's climbing, while listening to the laughter of Chang'an and Gu Li in the house. These days, Chang'an would return to his room and stay with Gu Li every day after school.

Hearing the noises of the two people in the house, they couldn't help but feel a little strange, so they also started talking in the courtyard:

"Zhen'er, was Sanniang like this before?" Huaiqin asked as she listened to the laughter of Gu Li and Chang An in the room.

"I don't think so..." Zhen'er said, looking in the direction of the room.

"In my impression, Sanniang has always been very reserved and quiet. Even when she was talking with friends at home before, she was not like this now." Zhener said.

"So, do you think this is what Sanniang originally looked like?"

"I think so too. Sanniang looks like...like..." Zhen'er searched her mind again and again, but couldn't come up with a suitable explanation.

"Like a little child?" Seeing that the other party seemed to be at a loss for words, Huaiqin added for her.

"Yes, that's what I mean." Zhen'er nodded quickly.

"Huaiqin had seen Sanniang before, and she seemed to be a very virtuous woman."

"By the way, Huaiqin, what kind of person was your young master before?" Zhen'er asked with interest.

"Let Huaiqin think about it..." Huaiqin held up his chin and thought for a while, "The young master used to be a very playful and unruly person, but he was still very good to the people he knew."

"I heard that the young master used to like to go to the Red Courtyard in Pingkangfang to drink and listen to music. Is that true?" Zhen'er lowered her voice when she spoke.

"That's true." Huaiqin admitted frankly.

"Ah!" Zhen'er exclaimed, and then asked nervously, "Will something happen to the young master in there?"

"You can rest assured about this, Zhen'er." Huaiqin said, "Every time the young master goes to Pingkangfang, he will ask Huaiqin to pick him up before curfew. Nothing will happen."

"So that's how it is." Zhen'er nodded. "People always said that getting married can change a person. Now that I think about it, it's true. Both the young master and Sanniang have become different from before."

Huaiqin also nodded in agreement.

Zhener looked at Huaiqin and suddenly asked, "Huaiqin, do you have a man you like?"

"No." Huaiqin shook her head and then asked, "I have to accompany the young master to the Imperial College every day and serve him when I come back. How can there be any?"

"What about you, Zhen'er?"

"Me neither." Zhen'er also shook her head.

As the two were chatting, they suddenly heard the door of Chang An and Gu Li's room suddenly opened. They both looked over and found that Gu Li was covering his face with a book, running out of the room and directly out of the courtyard.

Later, Chang An also ran out, but when he went out of the door, he could no longer see Gu Li, so he naturally didn't know where Gu Li ran to. Huaiqin and Zhen'er looked at Chang An, and at this time they found a faint lip print on his face.

Chang An stood at the door and saw Huaiqin and Zhener sitting in the pavilion. He coughed twice and asked, "Did you see where Mother Gu went?"

Both of them shook their heads, wondering what had just happened in the room.

Seeing both of them shaking their heads, Chang An made a "tsk" sound in his mouth, stretched his head to look outside the courtyard, but still did not see Gu Li, so he scratched his head, looking very embarrassed.

"Sir, do you want us to help find it?" Huaiqin asked.

"No need, you guys go ahead and do your work." Chang An waved his hand, "She will come back by herself later."

After saying that, he turned around and went back to the room. Huaiqin and Zhen'er looked at Chang'an, who didn't seem to be worried, and smiled at each other. They couldn't help but become curious again:

"What happened between Young Master and Sanniang?" Huaiqin asked.

"Did they have a quarrel?"

"But it doesn't look like that. Didn't you see the young master's face? There are still lip marks from Sanniang on it."

"Just now, the young master and Sanniang were in the room, clearly talking and laughing."

"Is it always like this after getting married?"

"have no idea......"

"..."

When Gu Li ran out of the courtyard and stopped, she found herself in the courtyard of the front hall. She looked back in the direction she ran from to confirm that Chang An had not followed. She coughed twice, patted her chest, and then let out a long sigh of relief.

She looked around and saw that there were no people in the courtyard, so she went to the corridor next to it, found a clean place, sat down and continued to read the poetry collection in her hand. She was so focused when reading the poetry collection that she didn't notice the two people coming out of the main hall -

"The circulation of those bad coins must be stopped. Otherwise, if bad coins circulate in large quantities, it may affect the prestige of the court and cause instability among the people."

It was Chang Wenmeng, and there was another person next to him who looked quite old, but no one knew who he was.

"It should be so. Moreover, the circulation of bad money will affect people's daily expenses and is extremely detrimental to people's livelihood." said the old man.

"But the issue of bad money cannot be eradicated overnight..." Chang Wenmeng stroked his beard and said, "It is better to conduct a thorough investigation first, find out the source of the fake and bad money, and then collect and destroy them in a centralized manner."

"The one who knows me best is you, Dr. Chang." After hearing this, the old man smiled with satisfaction and said, "Dr. Chang is so capable, why don't you join the Three Books and lend me a hand, so that I don't have to come to your house every day to bother you."

"Prime Minister Song, you are too polite. I just want to be a doctor of the Imperial College. I know nothing about those things in the court." Chang Wenmeng said modestly.

"Look at you, being modest again..." The old man said, and suddenly heard a few slight coughs. At this time, he caught a glimpse of a woman sitting not far away, pointed at her, and asked in confusion: "Who is that?"

Chang Wenmeng looked in the direction the old man pointed, and after seeing the figure of the woman clearly, he explained: "That is Chang's daughter-in-law who just got married not long ago. Her name is Gu Li. I just don't know why she is here."

"Let's go take a look."

As they spoke, Chang Wenmeng and the other two came behind Gu Li, but Gu Li seemed to be too engrossed that he didn't even notice the two people appear behind him.

The old man saw that Gu Li was holding a book in his hand, which looked like a collection of poems. He raised his hand to signal Chang Wenmeng to keep quiet. He also curiously leaned over and took a look at the poem on the page:

"The ancients left no stone unturned in their knowledge, and it was only when they were young that they were able to achieve their goals with old age. What you have learned on paper will only make you realize it is shallow, and you will definitely know that this matter must be carried out in detail."

The old man read the whole poem, thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but praise it: "Good poem!"

This statement frightened Gu Li so much that he quickly stood up, turned around and looked behind him. He found that it was an old man, and his father-in-law Chang Wenmeng was standing behind him.

Seeing that he was caught, Gu Li thought about how he was so engrossed that he didn't notice the two of them. He suddenly felt a little embarrassed and quickly bowed to Chang Wenmeng and said, "Father..."

Then he looked at the old man and asked Chang Wenmeng, "Father, who is this old man?"

"This is our current prime minister, Prime Minister Song Jing." Chang Wenmeng introduced, and then introduced Gu Li to Song Jing, saying: "This is my son's newly married wife, Gu Li."

Gu Li quickly bowed to Song Jing and said, "Greetings, Prime Minister Song."

"This is not outside, no need to be polite." Song Jing said to Gu Li kindly, "She is really a beautiful lady, and she loves reading so much, so she must be well-educated and well-mannered."

"Prime Minister Song, you are too kind." Gu Li wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into. This scene was so embarrassing.

Song Jing pointed at the poetry collection in Gu Li's hand and asked, "Whose poetry collection is this? How could such good poems be written in it?"

"This..." Gu Li was obviously a little nervous, "This was written by my husband."

"Your husband?" Song Jing and Chang Wenmeng looked at each other, then asked, "Are these all Chang An's poems?"

Gu Li nodded and said, "Except for the first one."

Song Jing's curiosity was aroused, and he asked, "Can you lend it to me to have a look?"

Gu Li glanced at Song Jing and handed him the collection of poems. Song Jing flipped open a page at random: "The falling white and turning red hurt each other, the misty rain in the brothel can't bear to forget each other. When she was about to fly, she danced in the wind, and when she fell, she still had half of her makeup. The traveler from the sea returned with tears in his pearls, and the person from Zhangtai left his bones with fragrance. Perhaps it was unintentional that the two butterflies passed on, and they were all given to the sweet heart and honey chamber."

"It's really a good poem..." Song Jing flipped through a few more pages and couldn't help but marvel at it: "Wonderful, really wonderful... I didn't expect that the young master of the Chang family would have such talent."

Gu Li felt happy when he heard someone praising his Chang Lang.

Chang Wenmeng, standing next to Song Jing, also read a few articles and thought they were very good.

"No wonder everyone says Chang An is as good as Li Bai. Seeing him today, I can see that his reputation is well-deserved." Song Jing praised, but then said with a hint of regret: "It's a pity that I have official business to attend to today. I need to go to the East Market to investigate some things. Otherwise, I must meet the young master of the Chang family today."

Song Jing returned the collection of poems to Gu Li, said "goodbye" and turned to leave. Chang Wenmeng politely saw him to the door, watched Song Jing leave, turned around, saw Gu Li still standing there, and walked up to him and asked with concern:

"It's cold now, why don't you put on more clothes before going out?" After Chang Wenmeng finished speaking, he saw two faint blushes on Gu Li's cheeks. After thinking for a while, he asked again: "But did Chang An bully you? Nod your head, and I will go and tie him up and beat him up."

Hearing that Chang Wenmeng was going to beat Chang An, Gu Li stopped hesitating and quickly explained, "No, Chang Lang didn't bully me. He has always been very good to me and would never bully me."

"Then why did you run out?" Chang Wenmeng saw that Gu Li was still defending him, and he felt that it was almost certain. He immediately rolled up his sleeves and prepared to walk towards Chang An's courtyard, "I'll go and teach him a lesson for you."

"Father, what I said is true. Chang Lang really didn't bully me." Gu Li was a little anxious when he saw this. He quickly stood in front of Chang Wenmeng and said, "We...we were just joking in the house. I ran out because..."

"Why?" Chang Wenmeng was a little confused.

"It's because I teased Chang Lang a little and wanted to play a trick on him..."

As Gu Li spoke, his face became hot.

After hearing this, Chang Wenmeng felt that he had wronged Chang An, and quickly pulled down his sleeves, then coughed twice in embarrassment, and said, "Uh... It's cold outside, and you ran out without even putting on more clothes."

"Look at you, you're still suffering from lung disease. If you catch a cold, it might get worse."

"Go back to the house quickly. I'll have someone make some cold-repelling medicine for you later."

Gu Li felt that she couldn't stay any longer, so she nodded and ran away again, covering her face with the book. Chang Wenmeng stood there, looking at her, tut-tutting, shaking his head meaningfully, and walked away.

In Chang'an's courtyard, Huaiqin and Zhen'er were still chatting and doing embroidery. Then they saw Gu Li running back to the room with a book covering his face. The two looked at each other again and saw confusion in each other's eyes.