Speaking of Wang Baoli, he is an understanding person, and he can be seen at weddings and funerals in our village, and he is indispensable to Zhang Luoli who is busy before and after.
He can speak well, is knowledgeable, exquisite, and thoughtful, and has won the admiration of the villagers.
There is a family in the village who marries a daughter, and he will definitely invite him to accompany the guests, and the man marries a group of people, etc., enter the village, sit down, smoke a cigarette, drink tea, and begin to listen to Wang Baoli talk about the sky, tell stories, talk about idle articles, and put the dragon gate.
A few glasses of water and wine in the stomach, the face is red, the ears are hot, guessing the boxing order, it is not lively, it is very long face and prestige to the main family, and in the man's applause and admiration, he sent his daughter out to get married, and sent him all the way.
When they arrived at the man's house, a couple of newlyweds, worshiped the church, saluted, and entered the cave room, Wang Baoli, as a representative of the woman's relatives, drank and ordered, watched the six roads, listened to all directions, and should be thoughtful, and there would never be a drunken and ugly scene of the woman's relatives.
Once the man who accompanies the wine is not strong enough to drink, he will stop at the point, persuade him warmly, shake hands and shoulder shoulders, whisper a little, laugh and say goodbye, say goodbye in joy, go out of the man's house in the lively and noisy, and get home all the way to the house, a marriage event, which is very successful.
Wang Baoli is a big acquaintance in our village (read kei), in the southwest of Lu, in the village, in each village, there are a few people, who are responsible for the villagers' "white affairs" (funeral), who has a funeral, they will take the initiative to come to the door, regardless of remuneration, to help the main family take care of the funeral (wear and send old clothes, place the spiritual bed, lay wheat straw, buy inverted head jars, filial piety basins, archways, spirit flags, set the offering table, write couplets, enter the funeral, go out of the funeral, carry the coffin, dig the grave, treat the guests, write gift lists, receive gift money, etc.), the person responsible for sending the work is called"Great knowledge", some are called "big support".
When I was a child, I often saw him busy working in front of the villagers' mourning hall, whenever someone came to mourn filial piety, only to hear him: "Kei (kei) - to-" The word is round, sonorous and powerful, the filial piety and virtuous grandson wearing filial piety clothes in the mourning hall and holding a mourning stick in his hand began to let out a loud cry of sorrow, crying and moving the sky.
When the guests kowtowed and saluted, Wang Baoli said again: "Send - guest (kei) - filial sons and grandsons threw the mourning stick to the ground, and the cry was even louder, which made people listen to it and was very moved."
Such a scene made me deeply remember Wang Baoli's majestic appearance.
Looking back now, when I have a deep impression of Mr. Wang Baoli, it should be when I was about seven years old, when his son Simao and I were elementary school classmates.
One day, I went to his house to find Simao to play, his house was on a high earthen house, about three meters high, outside the gate was a slope more than ten meters long, there were three tall jujube trees on the right side of the slope, and on the left was the courtyard wall of the villager Li's house.
Enter the gate, the yard is not big, on both sides are the east and west wings, above the door frame of the main house is the arched doorway made of some carved blue bricks, the window lattice is carved with bats and treasure gourds, it is very elegant, good-looking, the roof is laid with green tiles, very neat, elegant, I can't help but secretly amazed, it is really beyond my imagination, I have never seen such a luxurious house!
Later, when I asked my father, I learned that his family was originally a landlord, a lot of floating wealth, tables, chairs, benches, pots and pots, and when the agricultural reform was carried out, they were scattered by the villagers.
Wang Baoli studied private school when he was a child, opened a Mongolian, had some knowledge, after the change of agricultural reform, became cautious, everywhere with his tail between his legs, listening to his voice, are all thin, feel that the text is weak, more or less, there are some women in the tone, treat people with words, soft and slow, listen to the soft, no fire at all, very pleasing to the ear, perhaps, this is the times, the environment changes people.
Later, with the reform and opening up, the land, the rich, the anti, the bad, and the right all took off their hats, alleviated many contradictions, improved interpersonal relations, and the children of the former landlords and rich peasants also breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed their mentality.
Wang Baoli as a learned person, his etiquette and education knowledge, slowly came in handy, gradually accepted by the villagers, unconsciously, naturally, the prestige was established, and became a figure supported by everyone, became a "big acquaintance" in the village, to provide enthusiastic service to the villagers, never took a penny from the villagers, in the remote village, to be able to do this, it is really not easy!
When I returned to my hometown the year before last, I learned that he died of a heart attack at the age of 83, and I was very grateful for his enthusiasm for paying silently, and I always wanted to say something to him, but he had passed away, so I had to just say a few words, which can be regarded as a memorial to Mr. Wang Baoli! !May your old man stay forever in heaven!Using one's own meager light to illuminate the way forward for others is the meaning of human life.
end– vernacular proseAbout the Author
Cui Qingfeng, pen name Yuan Zhen, male, born in 1965, from Yuncheng, Shandong, graduated from Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, practicing physician, heart medicine research and application, literature and art lover.
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