My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

After lunch, Chang An and Gu Li began to prepare their luggage for tomorrow's trip.

Chang An first went to the kitchen to check Gu Li's medicine to see if it was enough to last until the trip. However, because Gu Li had divided some of his medicine during the test a few days ago, when Chang An went to check, there was only one day's supply left.

He called a servant at random, took out a silver ingot from his purse, and told him to go to the West Market to get the medicine, even saying that the sooner the better.

Then he checked the snacks and candies at home, thought about it for a while, and then wrapped some himself. Finally, after making sure there was no problem, he took the candies back to his room.

Gu Li was standing in front of the wardrobe in the room, thinking about what clothes to bring. He seemed to sense that Chang An had returned, so he turned around and looked at Chang An and asked, "What clothes should we bring?"

"Just be normal. Bring the clothes you normally wear." Chang An looked at Gu Li's wardrobe and said, "In fact, you only need to bring two sets of clothes. Why do you need to worry about it for so long?"

After saying that, Chang An touched Gu Li's head again and went to pack other things he needed to take.

By evening, two bundles were placed on the low table in front of the bed, and Chang An and Gu Li were sitting next to the low table.

Gu Li sat in Chang An's arms, his eyes never leaving the bag on the table, thinking repeatedly in his mind whether there was anything else he wanted to bring but didn't pack. Chang An looked at Gu Li like this and asked:

"What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"

"I'm wondering if there's anything else that hasn't been packed in." Gu Li answered, his eyes still on the two bags.

"Then I'll count for you on my fingers," Chang An put his arms around Gu Li, then stretched out his hands to count for her: "Mother Gu's medicine; the poetry collection that Mother Gu wants to read..."

Not only did Chang An read out Gu Li's luggage, he also read out his own luggage list.

"How is it? Is there anything missing?" Chang An asked again after he finished reading.

"Hmm..." Gu Li counted on his fingers, nodded, and said, "No more."

"Then go to bed. We will be going out tomorrow." Chang An touched her head lovingly, then carried her to bed and blew out the candle.

The next day, Chang An and Gu Li got up at the same time. After washing up, they checked their luggage. After Gu Li drank the medicine, the couple got on the carriage together. Chang An was afraid that something might happen on the mountain, so he brought a sword with him.

Originally Huaiqin and Zhen'er also wanted to go with them to serve the two of them, but Chang'an rarely had the chance to go out with Gu Li to spend some time alone together, so how could he possibly bring them along to spoil the fun, so he refused.

Mount Zhongnan is only 55 miles south of Chang'an City, not that far away, and it only takes less than an hour by carriage. Moreover, after leaving the city, the whole road is flat, and there is no need to climb mountains or cross ridges.

Gu Li sat in the carriage, opened the curtain, and looked at the "scenery" outside. Although it was flat land outside without any mountains or anything like that, for Gu Li, who had never been out of Chang'an City, all of this was very new.

Whether it was because of the dust or some other reason, Gu Li coughed twice while sitting in the carriage and looking at the scenery. Chang An reached out and lowered the curtain, then took the kettle and fed Gu Li a sip.

After drinking the water, Chang An wanted to ask her to take a rest, but before he could open his mouth, Gu Li came to the car window again, pulled up the window curtain, and continued to look at the scenery outside the window.

Chang An felt a little funny, so he asked, "Is there any scenery outside the window? It's so beautiful that it attracted my mother Gu away."

"No, there's snow outside and not much scenery." Gu Li replied.

"Then why is Madam Gu taking it so seriously?"

"I've never been this far out of Chang'an City, and I don't know when I'll be able to go out again," Gu Li replied, "so I'd better take a look now."

Chang An leaned slightly behind Gu Li and looked out the window with her - it was indeed all snow outside, and only the mountains in the distance could be vaguely seen. He looked down at Gu Li in front of him and found that she raised her little hand and rubbed her eyes.

At this time, Chang An also thought of something. He reached out and pulled the curtain, then pulled Gu Li back to his original seat and said, "Mrs. Gu, please don't look at it. It's not good for your eyes."

Gu Li rubbed his eyes, his eyes even a little moist, and asked: "Why."

"Because the snow is too white, the sunlight will be reflected on the snow, so there is no difference between looking at the snow and looking at the sun at this moment." Chang An reached out and pulled down Gu Li's hand that wanted to continue rubbing her eyes, then took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Looking at the sun hurts the eyes so much that even my mother is crying. If you keep looking at it, you'll turn into a little cat."

Gu Li pouted, but Chang An said that looking outside all the time would hurt her eyes, so she could only sit in the carriage obediently. Chang An saw her pouting slightly, so he leaned over and kissed her on the mouth. Gu Li got the upper hand at this time, and also put away her pouting mouth and smiled sweetly at Chang An.

The carriage stopped at this time, and Chang An first leaned out to look outside: this was the foot of the northern slope of Mount Zhongnan, and the "Guanyin Zen Temple" was right in front of him.

Seeing that they had arrived at the destination, Chang An got off the carriage directly and helped Gu Li down. It seemed that she had been sitting in the carriage for too long. Gu Li's feet felt a little soft when they landed on the ground. She almost couldn't stand steadily. It was Chang An who reached out and supported her, so she stood steadily.

Afterwards, Chang An turned around and told the coachman the time to pick him up, and then let him go.

At this time, a monk also came up, clasped his hands together, and said, "Amitabha."

Chang An and Gu Li also hurriedly clasped their hands in greeting, and then Chang An asked, "Amitabha, Master, my wife has been ill for a long time. My wife and I would like to listen to two days of secular lectures in your temple and pray for my wife. Is that possible?"

"Amitabha, please follow me, benefactors." The monk turned around and led the way.

So, Chang An and Gu Li followed the monk into the temple, walked through the square in front of the gate, passed through the Heavenly King Hall, the Great Hall and the Yuantong Hall, and came to a courtyard on the west side of the temple. The monk stopped and said:

"This is the guest room. You two donors can stay here for the time being." The monk said, "If you need anything, you can come and find me."

Chang An and Gu Li put their palms together again to express their gratitude to the monk, and then Chang An asked again: "I still don't know the master's Dharma name."

"My Buddhist name is Le Wen." After saying this, seeing that Chang An and Gu Li had nothing more to ask, he turned around and left.

After Chang An and Gu Li saw Wen off, they went into the room. The room was quite tidy, with all the daily furniture and even a few bookshelves, but they were filled with Buddhist scriptures.

As soon as he entered the room, Chang An first checked the doors and windows, and then checked the room to see if there was anything unusual. Gu Li had just made the bed when he noticed Chang An's strange behavior and shouted:

"Chang Lang."

"what happened?"

"What are you doing?" Gu Li obviously didn't understand Chang An's behavior of checking everywhere.

"Check to see if there is anything that might be dangerous." Chang An said, "I only have one wife. I can't lose her when I take her out to play. If I lose her, I'll be a widow."

Seeing his playful tone, Gu Li burst out laughing, walked over and pulled him in front of him, saying, "No need to check, with Chang Lang by my side, nothing will get lost."

When saying this, Gu Li's face was full of flattery.

Chang An touched Gu Li's head lovingly, handed the bag on his shoulder to Gu Li, and said, "I've checked everything, why are you being so naughty here?"

"Ah!" Gu Li was stunned for a moment, holding the bundle, and said with some frustration: "Is... is that so? That should be because I found out that Chang Lang discovered it too late."

"At least you can find me. If you can't find me, that would be a big problem."

Chang An took her back to the bed, and after Gu Li had sorted out her things, he took out six sandalwood sticks from his bag, asked her to hold his arm, and took her out of the room.

Following the route from the door to the guest room, Chang An brought Gu Li to the square in front of the main hall. Because it was still early, there were not many people here for the time being. Not far in front of the main hall, there was a large square tripod, which was used for burning incense.

Chang An brought Gu Li to the square tripod and put the sandalwood in his hand on the incense candle in the square tripod. After lighting the incense, he separated three sticks and handed them to Gu Li. The couple held the incense, stood in front of the tripod, bowed to the Buddha statue in the main hall, and then inserted the incense into the square tripod.

Then the two of them came to the main hall. There was a merit box at the entrance of the main hall, and two kneeling pads were placed in front of the merit box. Chang An and Gu Li each took out two pieces of silver from their own purses and put them into the merit box. At the same time, they could hear the monks beside them whispering "Amitabha".

The two men knelt on the mat, clasped their hands together, kowtowed in front of the temple, and then stood up.

Since he had come to Guanyin Zen Temple, Chang An naturally wanted to see the thousand-year-old ginkgo tree. So he relied on his memory before the time travel and brought Gu Li to a yard, and in this yard was a ginkgo tree.

"Chang Lang, what are you bringing me here for?" Gu Li took Chang An's arm and came to the yard. They found that there was only a ginkgo tree here. "Do we still need to worship the Buddha statue under the tree?"

The ginkgo tree in the yard is less than a hundred years old, so naturally it is not as big as what I saw before I traveled back through time.

"This is a ginkgo tree planted by the former Emperor Taizong Guangxiao himself. There is a spring buried under the tree, which never rises or falls at any time." Chang An explained, "And I heard that this spring is the water in the jade bottle of Guanyin Bodhisattva."

Gu Li felt it was magical after hearing this, so he said: "Since this is the spring water sprinkled by the Bodhisattva, let's worship it. If we make a wish here, it will surely come true."

After that, he pulled Chang An to the tree and bowed to the golden Buddha. When Chang An stood up again, he found that Gu Li was still with his hands clasped together, eyes closed, and still making a wish.

When she opened her eyes, Chang An asked, "Mother Gu, you have been making a wish for so long, but what did you wish for?"

"I hope Chang Lang can pass the imperial examination and become a Jinshi. I also hope Chang Lang will live a peaceful life. And... and..." Gu Li said this and suddenly blushed and stopped talking.

"Anything else?" Chang An asked with amusement when he saw her like this.

Gu Li glanced at Chang An, then blushed and leaned close to his ear, whispering in a low voice as if afraid of being heard by others:

"And..."

"I hope I can give Chang Lang a child soon..."