我的姥爷“葛先生”
2019-08-16吴海源
吴海源
我的姥爷葛怡斋先生,昌乐县鄌邵镇人。12岁学中医,81岁无疾而终。在镇区开中药铺,门口总是贴这样两幅对联:万卷奇书仁一字,几筐异草寿千家;不怕架上药生尘,但愿世间病人稀。
老人家慈眉善目,待人和蔼。说话慢条斯理的,嗓音略带沙哑。说话做事认真、严谨。给人开药方,全是用毛笔写正楷。我上大学的时候,姥爷给我写信,也是用毛笔写正楷。他对文字很恭敬,经常说字是神圣的,遇到带字的纸不能随便扔,要捡起来烧掉。坚决不让家里人拿带字的纸去擦什么东西。
老人家书法很好。经常教育我,说书法是门面学,是当头炮,学文首先要写好字。他还讲了一个故事,说他的一个老朋友考秀才时,考官给的评语是:“文如痴人说梦,字若锦上添花。点中!”凭一手好字,就够当秀才的资格。
一进了腊月,远近不少老先生都来求他写对联。老人家来者不拒,晚上或者下午不忙的时候,就给人家写,我就帮他晾。现在想来,我爱好书法,也是深受姥爷的影響。
老人家的医德医术名重一时,昌乐、临胸、安丘、沂水等几个县的人都找他看病。姥爷对我说,“俺五六个一起学医的人中,我不是最聪明的,但是为什么数我名气大?因为我很注意从他们身上学习。我经常去看望他们,听他们讲成功的例子,回来就试着用。经常积累,经验就多了。这好比到树林中拾柴禾,每棵树上掉下几片叶子来,咱就可以拾一大篓子。”
老人家一生修行,对任何事都很有数。曾两次对我说,我身上没有毛病,只是器官老化了,写字时手没有劲儿,走路脚抬不起来,将来说不定哪一天,我会睡着醒不来了。1 9 8 4年冬天,姥爷就是这样离世的。有跟着他学医的人,还有被他治好了病的人,拜他为义父。他干儿子、干闺女有很多,我的舅和姨就特别多。
姥爷去世后,留下了这张照片。还有一个药柜,药名是他写的。我就当作传家宝了。
“Mr. Ge”. whose full name is GeYizhai, is my grandfather. In ruralareas, people used to call doctors“Mister”and my grandfather is such adoctor. well known as“Mr. Ge”.
My grandfather always writes hisprescriptions for patients in regular scriptwith brush. He also wrote me letters inregular script when I was in college.His handwriting is very beautiful. Mygrandfather shows great respect for wordsand often tells us that paper with wordscannot be thrown away casually but ratherpick it up and burn it off because words aresacred. He would never allow his family towipe things with paper with words. Lookingback. I think my liking for calligraphyhas also been deeply influenced by mygrandfather.