鄉村“和事佬”

文、圖／趙東山 由葵葵

馬友利與在村頭休閑的老人談心交流。Ma Youli talks with the elderly in a village.

“出了東家進西家，勸了這家說那家，鄰里相處多和氣，調解為您添和諧。”在淄博市沂源縣，今年64歲的農民馬友利傾情鄉村調解事業，為了鄉村和諧，他30多年如一日，甘當鄉親們的“和事佬”。

馬友利是沂源縣燕崖鎮偏良山村的一位農民，一向熱衷主持公道的他，自年輕時就主動當起了村里的義務調解員。大到鄰里之間產生糾紛，小到夫妻吵架、婆媳拌嘴，每當村里有不和諧的事情出現，馬友利都是及時主動走上門來，苦口婆心地勸說調解。30多年來，他抱著“寧可不給子孫留財富，也不能留糾紛”的目標，不停地跑村串戶，用真心幫鄉親們化干戈為玉帛，用真情守護著鄉村的文明與和諧。30多年來，馬友利成功化解本村及周圍多個村的大小矛盾糾紛1500件（次）。

馬友利向村民宣傳村規民約。Ma Youli publicizes the village rules and regulations to the villagers.

多年來，馬友利不停地跑村串戶，用真心幫鄉親們化干戈為玉帛。Over the years,Ma Youli has never stopped in visiting villages and households,helping the villagers with sincerity to turn hostility into friendship.

為更好地發揮馬友利的調解帶動作用，2020年，沂源縣人民法院聘請馬友利為特邀調解員，專門在未設立法庭的燕崖鎮建立了“老馬調解工作室”，開通了“老馬熱線電話”，讓他擔負起燕崖鎮及周邊多個鎮的專職調解工作。自此，人到晚年的馬友利每天駕駛著一輛面包車，穿梭在鄉村間，用自己多年積累的化解糾紛的經驗，依托法院推出的“群眾說事、調解員說理、法官說法”解紛模式，本著“能調不訴、能調不判”的原則，耐心與群眾細算親情、信譽、時間、經濟、風險“五筆賬”，把一個個矛盾化解在萌芽狀態。

擔任特邀調解員以來，馬友利平均每年訴前成功化解法庭委托的各類民事糾紛130余件。2021年，馬友利被評為淄博市法院系統“十佳調解員”。如今，“有糾紛找老馬”成為當地鄉親們的共識。在馬友利看來，讓鄉村里少一些糾紛多一些和諧，是他最大的心愿。

馬友利走在進村調解的路上。Ma Youli is on the way to mediate in the village.

建筑工地里，馬友利指導一位村民填寫調解協議書。At a construction site,Ma Youli instructs a villager to fill out the mediation agreement.

馬友利與村民談心交流。Ma Youli has a heart-to-heart talk with the villagers.

馬友利與法官一起指導村民填寫合同。Ma Youli and the judge guide the villagers to fill out a contract.

馬友利向村民宣傳鄉風文明。Ma Youli publicizes the rural customs and civilization to the villagers.

在“老馬調解工作室”，馬友利與群眾溝通交流。In the “Lao Ma Mediation Studio”,Ma Youli communicates with the masses.

馬友利走在調解返回的路上。Ma Youli is on the way back from mediation.

Rural “Peacemaker”

“Leaving the east family for the west family,I persuade them all.Neighbors should get along more harmoniously.Mediation can bring you harmony.” In Yiyuan County,Zibo City,Shandong Province,Ma Youli,a 64-year-old farmer,is devoted to the cause of rural mediation.For the sake of rural harmony,he has been acting as a “peacemaker”for the villagers for more than 30 years.

Ma Youli is a farmer in Pianliangshan Village,Yanya Town,Yiyuan County.Keen on upholding justice,he has taken the initiative to be a voluntary mediator in the village since he was young.In order to give full play to Ma Youli’s leading role in mediation,in 2020,the Yiyuan County People’s Court hired Ma Youli as a specially invited mediator to establish the “Lao Ma Mediation Studio” for him in Yanya Town,where court was not available.With the “Lao Ma Hotline”,he took on the full-time mediation work in Yanya Town and several surrounding towns.Since then,every day,Ma Youli,in his later years,drives a van shuttling through the countryside.Using his years of accumulated experience in resolving disputes,and relying on the court’s dispute resolution mode of “mass telling events,mediator telling principles,and judge telling laws”,and in line with the principle of “mediation prior to lawsuit,mediation prior to judgement”,he patiently calculates the“five accounts” of family affection,reputation,time,economy,and risk with the masses,thus resolving each contradiction in the bud.

Since serving as a specially invited mediator,Ma Youli has successfully resolved on average more than 130 civil disputes entrusted by the court every year. In 2021,Ma Youli was named one of the “Top Ten Mediators” in the court system of Zibo City.Today,“calling on Lao Ma if you have a dispute” has become the consensus of the local folks.In Ma Youli’s view,it is his greatest wish to make the village have less dispute and more harmony.