The son of the Zhang family in the village will get married tomorrow, and all the people who helped today are on the scene.
Everyone counted and looked, and the people who came to help were those who often helped everyone in the village: those who were happy, compradors, cooks, boiled water, managed tobacco and alcohol, cleaned, etc., but the bookkeeper was changed, the retired village teacher Lao Li was gone, and in his place was Teacher Feng, a retired village teacher from a neighboring village.
Some people don't understand this, but those who help know it.
They said that Zhang Quan deliberately did not ask Teacher Li for help, and his own happy event could be handled as well.
Everyone talked about it in private, you see Mr. Li's spirit all day, as soon as he arrived at the field of red and white happy events, his words made people feel aggrieved, especially what he said, Zhuangshang red and white happy events do not invite him to invite anyone.
He meant that the red and white happy events in the village could not be done without his writing and painting.
There are not many words, it is very infuriating. Many households in the village said that they would not ask him for anything in the future and kill his arrogance.
Teacher Li is in her 70s this year and is one of the few retired village teachers in our village.
Mr. Li was a high school graduate in the early 70s, and at that time, there were only three or four high school graduates from hundreds of us, so they were called Tu Xiucai.
When he graduated, there was a shortage of teachers in our primary and secondary schools. Because of his good handwriting, he was assigned to the commune middle school as a middle school Chinese teacher and a junior high school language teacher.
Objectively speaking, Mr. Li's Chinese teaching level does have a strong ability. His Chinese teaching has guided students to work hard in listening, speaking, reading and writing, and students' language scores have greatly improved, and their results in the student-level examinations are among the best in the whole commune in the district.
Mr. Li teaches Chinese well, and his calligraphy is better. In particular, his brush writing is outstanding among the faculty and staff.
His books are tepid and free,
Therefore, every spring year, entering the lunar month, writing couplets for his father and fellow villagers who are about to celebrate the New Year, he was busy for more than half a month, until there were people selling spring couplings in rural fairs, and he was able to breathe.
Around 2000, rural private teachers were converted from private to public, and Mr. Li enjoyed the country's dividend policy, went to the people for the public, and in his own words, finally survived the hard life and saw the sweetness.
Fifteen years ago, he stepped off the three-foot podium and became a retired village teacher.
Retired to his hometown, no longer busy with teaching, it stands to reason that it is time to enjoy the blessings.
But because of his good writing with a brush, there were red and white happy events in the village that pulled him on the scene again.
There are many big households in our village, there are many red and white happy events, and Teacher Li has a lot of entertainment.
Everyone in the rural village regarded Mr. Li as a gentleman, and whenever there was a place where he was useful, everyone invited him to eat in advance to warm up.
When it was time to do errands, the Lord's house prepared wine and food and invited him to his home, prepared red paper and ink for him, accompanied him all afternoon, wrote all kinds of couplets that should be written, and waited for later.
Before leaving, the main family prepared 2 boxes of good cigarettes for him.
On the first day of the errand, he invited the helper to entertain him.
For two days, he ate and drank with many helpers and held cigarettes.
Teacher Li does not smoke, he takes the cigarette home and asks his wife to go to the supermarket in the countryside in exchange for daily necessities, such as soap, soy sauce vinegar, salt, monosodium glutamate and so on.
In this regard, the people in the village did not care.
There is a saying in the countryside that a mule horse is worth a lot of money, but a person is not worth much when he is big. And Teacher Li hit this sentence.
Zhuang's father and fellow villagers had something to ask him, and he had to make an appointment several days in advance, and when he was late, he didn't think he could see himself.
Sometimes he lost his temper because he was busy.
Sometimes the hospitality is not good, and he makes flowery ideas a headache.
What is even more unacceptable to everyone is that every time he goes to help, he will play tricks, showing off his brush writing skills to the helping colleagues and the accompanying guests, until he hears everyone's approval, and the helping colleagues are also tired of not saying anything.
He also said wildly, there is something in the Zhuang, and he will not be invited to invite anyone, and the implication is that if he does not go, other people's affairs cannot be handled.
However, they are all a person in the village, everyone helps to find people, do not look for him, and his face is not good-looking, and he goes further and further on the road of conceit.
Gradually, fewer and fewer people in the village asked him for help.