In Hangzhou, south of the Yangtze River, there is a small alley called Children's Lane. The Song Dynasty called here the brick streets and alleys of Baohefang, there are many mud children in the alley, the Qixi Festival sells "Momu Houluo", draped in colorful clothes, decorated with gold beads, fighting skillfully and strangely, before and after liberation, this kind of "Momu Houluo" market still has peddling.

In the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Children's Lane, and the Qing Dynasty said that it was still called Children's Lane until after liberation. There was a Lu You in the Song Dynasty, and his former residence was in the west of the lane between the child lane and the Shanzi lane, and there was a slight Huayi Fang, which was slang as the West Archway. Lu You, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a well-known immortal poem: "The taste of the world is as thin as a veil for many years, who makes the horseback rider Jinghua." Xiaolou listened to the spring rain overnight, and sold apricot blossoms in the Ming Dynasty in the deep alleys. The dwarf paper is oblique and idle, and the fine milk plays tea in the sunny window. Plain clothes don't sigh in the dust, and they can go home as if they were Qingming. "Now at No. 98 Children's Lane, there is a Lu You Memorial Hall.

The story begins in an old shop in Kid's Alley.

Before the liberation of Hangzhou was already a rich place, there was a family surnamed Wang near the 98th, guarding a small shop, the ancestor said that it was doing incense business, to put it bluntly, it was to make some paper money ingots, wreath coffins. Because it is an old shop, and it is all handiwork, the Qing Dynasty was a little famous, and the people around Fangyuan knew that the most high-end wine had to go to the building outside the building to buy Dongpo meat, and Bai Xishi had to pay attention to going to "Wang Ji Incense" to buy their family's incense, candles, and paper money. In other words, "Wang Kee" is a brand, a time-honored brand, which has been making a living for several generations, and the business is quite hot.

"Wang Ji" is still only two generations after liberation, the old man Wang is nearly eighty years old, and there is an only son named Wang Xiu under his knees, who was born with a good appearance, and he is the person who the girls in the alley are scrambling to marry. This Wang Xiu Jing introduced, and later married a relative, the woman was married from Shaoxing, I heard that the ancestor had a master, followed the master all the way from Jiangnan to the capital, and it was once prominent. This woman should be a scholarly lady, and she is also down-and-out and generous, a charming and beautiful lady, which makes others envy this pair of fairy couples.

It's a pity that God seems to be a little unfair, the first three children of Wang Xiu and his wife have not been able to raise, the first child died at the age of half a year, and the second child is a daughter, who fell into a nearby canal at the age of six, and it has been three days since he was fished up, so that Wang Xiu and his wife almost didn't cry and were blind. In the middle of the period of a year, it was stopped, and finally a third child came out, it was a handle, and the tiger head and tiger brain were very cute, and it happened to catch up with the founding of New China that year, so it was named the founding of the People's Republic of China. This Wang Jianguo and Wang Laosan disappeared not long after he was born, he had an illness, and even the doctor couldn't say that he was ugly, and after three times of white-haired people sending black-haired people, Old Man Wang couldn't sit still anymore.

This old Wang family is doing a business linked to the dead, and he will also know some characters on the "rivers and lakes", these characters look at feng shui, count eight characters, and read numerology, which is mysterious, and what comes out of his mouth is called a skyscraper. There is such a Taoist priest in the northwest of Zhejiang, it is said that the ancestor came down from Maoshan Mountain, has been in his sixties, has a wine gourd hanging around his waist, and often came to buy incense candles with the old man Wang when he was young, and he is considered a regular customer. Later, in my thirties, I didn't know why I didn't wash my hands. Some people say that he leaked too much heavenly secrets and was punished by heaven, so his hands and feet were sore, he was crazy all the year round, his body was full of smell, and he only wore a single coat in winter, so that his toes were like carrots, and he looked poor.

This Taoist priest's name is Ma Sufeng, this old man Wang thought about it and planned to ask this Taoist priest to calculate, he also knew that others had washed their hands in a golden basin and was afraid that it would be difficult to invite, Wang Xiu must have eaten closed doors in the past, so he invited a few people to prepare a generous gift and pushed himself all the way to the west with a wheelbarrow. After several inquiries, this Taoist priest really found it, and the two old friends met again when they were in ancient times, and there was an endless sigh, and after three rounds of drinking, the old man Wang said what he thought in his heart, and waited quietly for the Taoist priest's reply.

I don't want the Taoist priest to say that he himself would come even if the old man Wang would come today, this is all fate, he only has one request, he wants to use the old man Wang's nanmu coffin when he returns to heaven in the future. This Wang Ji has two coffins that are the treasures of the town, one is Huanghuali, and the other is Nanmu, and the Taoist priest wants Nanmu, which makes the old man Wang very entangled. However, the Taoist priest also said that he wanted this coffin because he leaked too many heavenly secrets, and he would inevitably be punished by heaven after death, and he wanted to keep a whole corpse, and when he returned to heaven in the future, there would be an apprentice surnamed "Cha" to take the coffin. Old Man Wang thought to himself, if this Wang family is really the last one, even if he keeps such a good coffin for his own use, in the end, there are no two people who go to the grave during the Qingming Festival, what is the point? So I agreed.

This Taoist priest told the old man Wang that the reason why Wang Xiu has no queen is because he needs to die, according to the Taoist priest Ma Sufeng, Wang Xiu will have a son in his life, he is an extraordinary person, most of these extraordinary people have an extraordinary fate, this kind of person is often jealous of God, and he will suffer a lot before he can become a great road. But the premise is that Mr. Wang needs to do one thing, their ancestors sold dead things, over the years, there are many "strangers" living in Wang Ji's old mansion, most of these "strangers" are some people who have no one to pay tribute to after death, lack of sesame oil, can only go to his shop to eat and drink, and it is precisely because of this that Wang Ji's shop is too gloomy, and the combination of the two is so that the baby will die.

So Ma Sufeng promised to go to Wang Ji to be a mage once, to expel those century-old grievances, and then asked Wang Xiu's wife to move out of the old mansion after she became pregnant, and to move to another place, and wait until the child was ten years old to pick it up. The ancients believed that people have heavenly eyes, and when they reach a certain age, the heavenly eyes will be closed, so folk children are easy to see "strangers" and often cry. What he meant was that when Wang Xiu had another heir, he must wait until he grew up to avoid being affected by the yin qi of the ancestral house. And he also specially instructed that the child's milk name should be changed to "fourth brother", only in this way does it mean that the old Wang family may be able to continue a few more incense sticks after him, and having a brother means having a younger brother or sister.

Not long after, this Taoist priest went to Wang Ji Incense to do a ritual, and Wang Xiu's wife was really conceived in a month. Old Man Wang was overjoyed, and specially bought wine and meat to thank the Taoist priest, but he didn't want to find that person no matter what, so he could only leave with some regret. After many years, when a Taoist priest surnamed "Cha" came to Wang Ji to buy a coffin, he found that this place was no longer what it was back then, but Wang Ji's descendants still referred to the agreement between the two old men before, and the good Nanmu coffin has been hidden in a secret place, what kind of ordeal has it undergone to be preserved!

After becoming pregnant, he sent his wife to her mother's house according to the instructions of the Taoist priest. Pregnant in October, the melon was ripe, and Wang Xiu's wife really gave birth to another belt, but before she had time to be happy, the doctor in charge of the delivery wondered why the child who was born had two teeth in her mouth!

At that time, the proletarian people were already in charge of their own affairs, and there were no feudal superstitions, but the obstetricians were very experienced, and they had never encountered such strange things in their most of their lives. However, after some examination, the child was very healthy, and when he started to eat, he was poured violently, and he never cried at all except for two dry throats when he was born, and he grinned all day long before he opened his eyes.

This Wang Xiu's mother is a complete superstitious leader, because this is what she does, and she heard that the child born to her daughter-in-law was born with teeth, so she went to ask the goddess. Before liberation and even thousands of years ago, there has always been such a saying in our China: if a child is born with teeth, it is most likely to be a zombie or something like reincarnation, and at the same time in Europe, such a child will be regarded as a "vampire", usually dealt with by the people of the church, and is generally thrown into the fire......

In short, the old woman thinks that this is a bad thing, and she wants to steal the child and send it away. Later, under the prevention of Wang Xiu and his wife, the child was barely saved, and some of the details that happened will no longer be described one by one, in short, the child has not been easy since he was born, and it is not easy in the ten months he was pregnant, and Wang Xiu's daughter-in-law, who was pregnant with three children, has never had such a big reaction, basically what to eat and vomit, and continue to eat after vomiting, and then vomit after eating, which can toss people enough.

After the child was born, Mr. Wang firmly believed that his grandson was an extraordinary person, so what the Taoist priest said could be false? So he decided to give the boy a name that was very in line with his family's industry: Wang Hao. The old man said that this word could only be used by the emperor's family in the past, and then Wang Xiu checked some information and said: "Dad, we really can't afford this name, what kind of character is Haotian?" That's the God of our Chinese civilization. "Wang Xiu is right, this Haotian is the name of the highest god in our Chinese mythology, as early as the time of Rao Shunyu, it has been called so, in the Yin Shang oracle bone inscription, Haotian God is called the emperor, or called God, he is the master of nature and the lower kingdom.

At that time, all children who were not easy to raise, it was popular to take a cheap name, what dog, dog leftovers, food guys, etc., this Wang Xiu was worried that the fourth child would have the same fate as the previous child, and resolutely opposed the old man to make such a domineering name, and finally the two quarreled with each other, and the matter of this name has not been decided after half a year. Later, there was really no way to register, so I let the child make his own decisions, and thought of a way to let the child draw lots by himself, that is, to use different words written on a square piece of paper for him to catch, and whichever one was caught.

Who knew that as soon as the child was put on the ground, he pounced on a small paper man in the shop, the kind of boy and girl who was tied up and burned for the dead, holding the thing and laughing, reaching out and pulling, tearing off a small piece of paper hanging on the boy's body, there was a word on this paper, it was the word "mausoleum" of the mausoleum, which was originally used to hang on it to advertise, but the little doll grabbed it in his hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

The old man Wang looked at it, yes, this kid is destined for this industry, the old Wang family has done a dead man's business for several lifetimes, and he has to deal with things for generations, and patted his head and said: "Wang Ji had a dream when he was founded, one day our coffin can be used by the emperor, since this is the case, simply name him Wang Ling, our family is doing this line, Wang Ling Wang Mausoleum is the emperor's tomb, there are countless gold and silver treasures buried here, as long as he has that life, It's inexhaustible, Wang Xiu, what do you think? ”

This Wang Xiu didn't want to argue anymore, to say that the providence was also chosen by this kid himself, but this name really sounds a little weird, and then after a long time, Xiao Lingzi Xiao Lingzi screamed and began to slowly smooth out......