My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

"It's melted! It's melted!"

The passerby holding the bowl of water suddenly exclaimed.

"What melted?" asked the restaurant owner curiously.

"Buddhist beads! The beads have turned into Buddha beads!"

"What!" The restaurant owner was immediately upset when he heard it, and ran over to look into the bowl. He saw that the Buddhist beads that Chang An had thrown into the bowl had melted more than half, and the size had changed visibly.

"What's going on?" The restaurant owner pointed at the water bowl and questioned the monk.

But the monk hesitated and said nothing. Instead, Chang An spoke up: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a tonic pill made of ginseng, ganoderma lucidum and other tonics, used to replenish essence and physical strength."

"For ordinary people, it is absolutely impossible to sit here for ten days without eating and only drinking water. The lighter ones will faint after seven or eight days, and the more serious ones will starve to death." Chang An continued, "And the most problematic thing is that this monk... oh no, it should be an actor. He didn't eat for ten days, his stomach was empty, and drinking water was just a little bit of nutrition for his body, but he could still go to the toilet? This is obviously problematic."

"Boss! Boss!" At this time, the servant who was previously sent to check the restaurant came back, panting.

"Tell me quickly, what have you found?" the restaurant owner asked hurriedly.

"Reporting to the shopkeeper, we went back and checked carefully, and found a hole under the east wall. It looks like it was dug not long ago. And there are some empty wine jars blocking the hole." said the servant.

"Isn't this clear now?" Chang An casually threw the fake Buddhist beads in his hand to the ground and said. He turned his head and looked at Gu Li beside him as if to show off, and the other party also responded with a beautiful smile.

The restaurant owner was smart at this time. He grabbed the fake monk and asked, "Mr. Chang, what's going on?"

"It's very simple. What you, the shopkeeper, encountered that day was not a ghost at all, but a human. That person dressed up in advance and came to your restaurant to play tricks. And it's such a coincidence that you encountered a female ghost last night and a great wizard came in the next day." Chang An said.

"While this actor was meditating here, he probably used the excuse of going to the bathroom to steal the Buddhist beads."

The restaurant owner said, and quickly bowed to Chang An, saying: "Thank you, Mr. Chang, otherwise I would have been cheated of my money by this liar today."

But this bow gave the fake monk an opportunity, and he seized it and tried to run away. Chang An saw this and shouted, "This man is trying to run away!"

The monk was holding a wooden fish in his hand and waving it around, scaring the onlookers away. Seeing this, Chang An said to Gu Li, "Wait for me here," and rushed forward.

When the monk saw Chang An catching up, he immediately waved the wooden fish and was about to hit him. Gu Li's heart tightened when she saw this. Just as she was about to shout, she suddenly felt a slight pain in her chest and started coughing, which made it impossible for her to speak immediately. She could only cough and look towards Chang An with difficulty. The restaurant owner standing nearby was also very tactful and pulled her over to sit at the low table where the monk had just sat, and ordered someone to bring a bowl of water.

The monk was waving the wooden fish, but Chang An was not afraid at all. Instead, he stretched out his hand and clamped the other's hand holding the wooden fish. He slightly increased the force on his hand, and the monk began to scream in pain.

"No, why are you running?" Chang An raised his hand and punched the monk in the face, knocking him to the ground with one punch. "Don't you know that your wife is in poor health?"

Chang An said, and looked in the direction of Gu Li, and found that the restaurant owner had already pulled her to sit down, and even made a bowl of water for her to moisten her throat. But the monk was still thieving, and seeing that Chang An had diverted his attention, he quickly got up from the ground, grabbed the wooden fish and was about to hit Chang An.

However, Chang An was originally a martial artist, and naturally inherited this physical ability after traveling through time and space, so his physical reaction ability was naturally extraordinary. Chang An ducked to avoid the wooden fish, walked around the fake monk, stretched out one hand to hold his collar, and the other hand to hold his belt, and actually lifted the fake monk up.

Chang An threw the fake monk back into the crowd. Before the restaurant owner gave any order, the two servants went up and controlled the fake monk.

"Take him to the police. He's been disrupting the East City market. I guess he won't be released for years." Chang An clapped his hands, walked over and said.

Seeing this, Gu Li hurriedly stepped forward and took Chang An's hand, gently squeezed it twice, and looked at him worriedly. Chang An also gently squeezed him back twice.

The restaurant owner stepped forward, raised his hand and saluted, saying: "If it weren't for Mr. Chang today, I'm afraid I would have suffered a lot of losses."

"It's just a small favor," Chang An waved his hand and said with a smile, "Boss, please take this man to the government. My wife is not feeling well, so I won't bother you any more."

"Okay, Mr. Chang, please come to my restaurant next time so that I can express my gratitude." The restaurant owner said this without delay.

Chang An nodded slightly, then turned around and left with Gu Li.

"Chang Lang, you scared me to death just now." As soon as he walked out of the crowd, Gu Li said with some complaints, and patted his chest with his hand.

"Did you feel uncomfortable from coughing just now?" Chang An asked with a smile.

"It's okay. It must be because I was too anxious that I coughed a little heavily." Gu Li said, and then coughed twice more.

Chang An reached out and gently patted her back, saying softly, "Then I won't do this again in the future. Others will be deceived in the future, but I can't let my mother Gu cough like this."

"No!" Gu Li was a little anxious again, "If we meet again in the future, Chang Lang will have to help."

"Ah?" After hearing this, Chang An felt a little amused.

"Chang Lang is so smart, of course we have to help him. But we can't just rush in like we did today, it's very dangerous." Gu Li said, raising Chang An's hand and patting him all over his body, "I was scared to death today..."

"Okay, okay, it's my fault today," he said as he saw a vendor selling candied haws. "I'll treat Gu Niang to some candied haws as an apology, okay?"

Gu Li also saw the vendor at this time, his eyes lit up slightly, but he still pretended to be reluctant and said: "Well, for the sake of the candied haws, I will forgive Chang Lang."

Chang An looked at her arrogant look, smiled dotingly, and took her to the stall, released her hand, and let her choose by herself. This time, Gu Li directly picked two strings of the brightest sugar-colored candied haws with a little sesame sprinkled on them, and then took the candied haws and took out the copper coins from her small purse and put them on the stall without waiting for Chang An to pay.

After doing all this, she took Chang'an by the hand without saying anything and walked towards the gate of the East Market. Chang'an saw her holding the two strings of candied haws, and she didn't eat them herself, so she just held them.

"Mrs. Gu?"

"Hey."

"Didn't we agree that I would treat you? Why are you paying for it yourself?" Chang An asked with some confusion.

"My Chang Lang is so smart. He can write a timeless quatrain like "Climbing the High Tower" and can also see through a liar. How come he can't even guess this?" Gu Li looked at him with a cunning look.

"Chang Lang is smart, but Gu Niang is smarter. How can I see through the thoughts of someone smarter than me?" Chang An said.

"Then I will be merciful and tell you," Gu Li said, releasing Chang An's hand and putting one of the strings in his hand, "This one is for you, Chang Lang, as a reward for your bravery today."

Chang An couldn't help but smile when he took the candied haws given by Gu Li. He put it directly into his mouth and took a bite. When Gu Li saw him eating it, he also smiled and took a bite of the candied haws in his hand.

"By the way, Chang Lang, how did you know there was something wrong with the Buddhist beads?" Gu Li suddenly thought of something and asked.

"Didn't I say it at that time? How could a person who only drank water for ten consecutive days go to the toilet?" Chang An said.

"No, I'm asking, how did Chang Lang know that the Buddhist beads were made of ginseng and ganoderma lucidum?"

"Oh, that's what I'm talking about." Chang An took another bite of the candied haws, "Because besides taking medicine for lung disease, Gu Niang occasionally drinks the medicine I bought for her health."

"So what?"

"The prescription for your health was written by me personally. It contains ginseng and ganoderma lucidum," Chang An explained.

Gu Li suddenly realized and said, "It turns out that the prescription was written by Chang Lang himself. I didn't expect Chang Lang to know this."

Then he calculated in his mind and said, "Chang Lang can read, write poetry, write novels, make soap, make sugar... Chang Lang can do so many things."

After listening to this, Chang An smiled and said, "But Gu Niang, there is a place where you can completely defeat me."

When Gu Li heard this, he asked with some excitement and curiosity: "Where?"

"The reason why Gu Niang is better than me is that she has Chang Lang," Chang An said, "She has a Chang Lang who can read, write poetry and novels, and can also make soap and sugar. I don't have that."

Gu Li was stunned for a moment, then burst into a series of crisp laughter. Chang An saw her laugh, and he couldn't help but feel happy too.

"Chang Lang also knows martial arts. He was so powerful when he caught that fake master today." The little flatterer Gu Li is online again.

"Because I am a scholar, I must read The Analects of Confucius." Chang An thought for a moment and said.

"What does the Analects have to do with Chang Lang's martial arts?"

"I read books by sages, and reading is about putting it into practice." Chang An explained randomly according to what he just thought of, "There is a sentence in the Analects, 'The Master does not speak of strange things, supernatural powers, or the gods.' That's what I do."

"You don't talk about strange things?" Gu Li was a little confused.

"What this sentence means is that I won't say anything, but will use incredible strength to beat people until they become mentally confused." Chang An explained "Lun Yu" to Gu Li.

After hearing this, Gu Li laughed again, "Chang Lang, you are lying. The Analects does not mean this. Chang Lang, do you think I really have not read the Analects?"

Chang Lang looked at her and smiled. There was still a candied haws in her mouth that had not been chewed yet. He quickly reminded her: "You haven't finished eating yet, don't smile like that."

Chatting and laughing, the two arrived at the gate of East Market.

"Let's go, Madam Gu, let's go home!"

Chang An took her hand and shook it.

"Well, go home!"