My name is Chang An, your name is Gu Li

After Gu Li accepted the jade pendant, they talked about many things. Even the brothers Gu Baizhi and Gu Huashuo pulled Chang An aside and asked him what it felt like to study at the Imperial College.

They chatted until noon, until the servant knocked on the study door, interrupting their conversation. Gu Ke asked, "What's the matter?"

"Alang, the food is ready, you can go and eat." The servant replied.

"Got it." Gu Ke stood up and said to Chang An enthusiastically, "Let's go. We went to your house to eat last time, and today we'll have a meal at our house."

"Thank you, father-in-law." Chang An did not refuse and agreed.

Then, Gu Ke brought a few people to the main hall, where a lot of bowls and chopsticks were placed, and even a lot of dishes were served. Gu Ke took Chang An and Gu Li in each hand and walked to the table, and without saying anything, he sat them down in front of the ribs and fish.

After the remaining few people sat down, they began to eat.

While eating, Gu Li seemed to be afraid that Chang An would be too shy to pick up any food, so he kept adding food to Chang An's bowl while he ate himself.

"Don't be so reserved, Changlang. I'll pick up whatever you want to eat today." Gu Li leaned close to Chang An's ear and whispered.

After hearing this, Chang An smiled dotingly, picked up a rib with chopsticks and put it in Gu Li's bowl. Gu Li was not to be outdone, so he picked up a piece of fish and wanted to put it directly in his bowl, but when he saw that his bowl was filled with the dishes he had picked up, he put the fish meat in his mouth instead.

Chang An naturally opened his mouth and ate the fish out of habit, but at this time the two of them seemed to notice something and looked at the four members of the Gu family standing aside.

Gu Ke and Gu Su were both smiling, but the brothers Gu Baizhi and Gu Huashuo seemed to have never seen such a scene before, and both of them were stunned.

The couple quickly returned to their original sitting position. Gu Li's face turned a little red; while Chang An picked up the bowl and used eating to hide his embarrassment.

"Brother, when can we get married..." Gu Huashuo came close to Gu Baizhi and asked.

"Why...ask this?" Gu Baizhi asked incoherently.

"That's right... I also want to get married. Seeing Li'er like this, I'm a little envious." Gu Huashuo said with some envy.

"I want to..." Gu Baizhi picked up a piece of food for his brother and put it in his bowl. "I think today's food is a bit sour. Try a little."

Gu Huashuo simply picked up a little food and put it in his mouth, saying, "Indeed there is a little bit. I guess Chang Yonghe likes sour food."

"It's possible." Gu Baizhi also nodded.

After lunch, while watching the servants clearing away the dishes, Gu Ke asked again, "Are you in a hurry to go back?"

Chang An and Gu Li looked at each other, and the latter asked, "Chang Lang, do we have anything else to do today?"

"Gu Niang is the eldest in the family. If you say yes, then yes. If you say no, then no." Chang An stretched and said.

After hearing this, Gu Li naturally knew what Chang An meant. He smiled sweetly at him and whispered in his ear, "I know Chang Lang treats me the best."

"Father, we are not in a hurry to go back." Gu Li then said to Gu Ke.

Gu Ke smiled and nodded, saying, "Then wait a little longer and worship the God of Wealth with us."

"Worship the God of Wealth?" Chang An raised his eyebrows, cast a puzzled look at Gu Li, and asked in a low voice: "What is the purpose of worshiping the God of Wealth?"

"Chang Lang doesn't even know this," Gu Li curled his lips, and then explained: "Our family is a merchant family. People who do business must worship the God of Wealth on the second day of the Lunar New Year."

Chang An raised his eyebrows, and then Gu Li said, "The God of Wealth's birthday is on the fifth day of the first lunar month. We are going to send the God of Wealth back to heaven to celebrate his birthday today and wish him a happy birthday."

After listening to Gu Li's explanation, Chang An nodded, but seeing that Gu Ke and the others did not make any moves to prepare for the worship, he asked again: "Why don't you start yet?"

"Waiting for the statue of the God of Wealth." Gu Li said, "At this time, a servant should have gone to the West Market to get it."

As he was speaking, Gu Li saw the purse hanging on Chang An's waist. He stretched out his little hand and pinched it, and found that there was not much silver and money in it. He couldn't help but frowned again.

Chang An saw her like this and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Why is Chang Lang's wallet empty?" Gu Li pursed her cherry lips gently.

"Because they were all used to support my baby Gu Niang!" Chang An saw her cute look and wanted to tease her again, so he said so.

"what!"

After hearing this, Gu Li was obviously stunned for a moment, then decisively took off her purse and stuffed it directly into Chang An's hand. But she thought about it, took the purse back, opened it, and poured all the money into Chang An's hand. Then she hung the purse back on her waist with joy, and the word "Chang'an" was embroidered on the purse.

Chang An obviously didn't know that Gu Li would do this. He asked with amusement, "What is Gu Niang doing?"

"This is... this is some of my own savings, which I never spend on weekdays." Gu Li didn't feel bad about this pile of silver at all. He looked at Chang An and said, "I have saved about two or three hundred taels. Here are about ten taels. I will give the rest to Chang Lang when I go back. Is that okay?"

"Chang Lang spent a lot of money to support me, so now I will use the money to support Chang Lang."

When he said this, Gu Li's eyes were full of excitement and joy. But Chang An said, "What if I take Gu Niang's money and support her?"

"Hmm..." After hearing this, Gu Li really began to think seriously, then took off his purse again and put the silver in Chang An's hand back.

"Then I'll keep the money," Gu Li patted his purse and said, "In the future, when Chang Lang wants to buy something, I'll give him some money, and I'll pay for shopping. That's all!"

Chang An smiled and pinched Gu Li's little face, saying, "Chang Lang is rich! Even if I die of poverty, I will use all my money to support Gu Niang."

"Why is Chang Lang's purse empty? I thought Chang Lang had no money." Gu Li puffed up his cheeks and glared at Chang An fiercely.

At this time, Chang An leaned close to Gu Li's ear and whispered, "Everything I have belongs to Gu Niang, not to mention the silver."

After saying that, Chang An kissed Gu Li on the cheek, which frightened her and she quickly looked at Gu Ke and the others around her, but she found that they were not looking at her. They were originally looking at her and Chang An's whisper, but when they saw Gu Li was about to turn around, they all turned their heads away tacitly and pretended to talk.

Gu Li blushed slightly, gently pinched Chang An's waist and glared at him. At this time, a servant came in with a plate covered with a red cloth and said:

"Ah Lang, I got the stuff back."

Needless to say, the image of the God of Wealth was covered by the red cloth. Gu Ke nodded and said, "Then give the order and start preparing."

At this time, everyone present stood up, including Gu Li and his family in the mainland, all tidied up their clothes, leaving only Chang An, who had never participated in the worship of the God of Wealth, standing there. He seemed to feel that it was not good for him to stand like this, so he followed their example and simply tidied up his clothes.

Gu Li caught a glimpse of Chang An's movements from the corner of his eyes, and raised his head to stop his movements and said, "Chang Lang, you are a scholar, you don't have to follow us to worship."

Chang An was stunned for a moment, and had to stop what he was doing. At this time, Gu Su said, "Li'er, you don't have to come with us to worship."

"Yes, now that you are married to Chang Yonghe, your household registration is considered to be a member of the Shi family." Gu Baizhi also said.

"Really?" Gu Li was also stunned.

"Yes, you married Yonghe, so naturally the excuse was shifted to their family." Gu Ke said.

Soon, Chang An and Gu Li followed Gu Ke's family to the front hall. At this time, the front hall was already filled with things for worship, and the statue of the God of Wealth was placed in front of the door. The two eyes seemed to be inlaid with some kind of ore, so the eyes of the statue of the God of Wealth looked very bright.

Gu Ke stood at the front, holding incense in both hands, followed by Gu Sushi, Gu Baizhi and Gu Huashuo. The four of them bowed three times to the statue of the God of Wealth, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner at the feet of the God of Wealth.

At this time, Gu Ke took out the fire starter, picked up a few pieces of paper money from the ground, lit them and threw them into the brazier in front of the incense burner. At this time, the other three people came forward and each put a stack of paper money into the brazier.

There was a fire burning in the brazier, and Gu Ke's family threw paper money into the brazier one after another until there was no more paper money. When the fire burned out, Gu Ke and his family bowed three times to the statue of the God of Wealth, and that was the end of the sacrifice to the God of Wealth.

After everything was packed up, Gu Su said, "If you two have nothing else to do, go back and don't let Dr. Chang worry. Come back next time whenever you want."

"From now on, your second brother and I will come to see you when we are free." Gu Baizhi also said.

Gu Li and Chang An bowed to them for the last time and left in the carriage.

When they got home and entered the room, Gu Li put the box containing the jade pendant in Chang An's hand, and murmured, "This is Chang Lang's."

"Why give it to me? This is given to you by your father-in-law." Chang An pointed to the heart-shaped jade pendant on his waist and said, "And I also have this one."

"Because this piece of jade is the best one I have ever seen, and of course the best should be given to Chang Lang." Gu Li said, and he opened the box and hung the jade pendant inside on Chang An's waist.

"But I only wear Gu Niang's jade pendant. What's the use of this one for me?" Chang An asked.

"Of course it is useful. When Chang Lang goes out for a drink in the future, he can take this with him. It will definitely make other young men envious." As Gu Li said this, he moved directly into Chang An's arms and wrapped his arms around Chang An's neck.

"Why is Mother Gu so good to me and is willing to give me the best things?" Chang An put his arms around Gu Li's waist and asked.

"Because Chang Lang always gives me his best things, I will naturally do the same." Gu Li slowly approached Chang An.

"And didn't Chang Lang say that everything you have is mine? Is there any problem if I give this jade pendant to my people?"