knife moving in the front of me and said: ‘This is a good knife. Would you buy it?’
‘No,no,no!’ I answered unconsciously.
‘You can exchange with your food coupon.’ He pull out another sharp knife from his haversack and began to squeeze into my house.
And I was desperate to close the door. He rolled his eyes on me severely. I was scared by his eyeballs.
‘I’m sorry. Please go!’ I maintained keen vigilance secretly.
Next day, I decided to stall an iron gate. But I was depressed by its price, which was tripled three times than that of before. I was disappointed so I’d better wait to next month when I take my salary.
I returned home, opened the letterbox and found the wrong-delivered letters. So I had to take my ink brush and wrote ‘Teacher Lin Lin’s Letterbox’ on the front door to remind the careless postman.
When I came off work, I saw several neighbors crying badly scolding thieves. I stepped forward and found that they were stolen. Thieves were so shrewd that they can open the iron gate.
I came back and took a long breath seeing the locked door.
The police came to solve the case. The head of the police visited for many times from home to home and finally he stopped at the door of my home and said to himself: ‘Why thieves stole them except him?’
‘Right! They all stalled iron gates!’ A policeman interrupted, ‘But this house wasn’t stalled and it wasn’t stolen.’
Hearing their talk, instead, I became a little nervous and didn’t know how to do. ‘This is the answer,’ the head of the police said with his bright eyes, ‘His house was guarded by an amulet.’
‘What is it?’ a policeman beside him asked.
‘It’s the letterbox,’ the leader answered, ‘Didn’t you see the word ‘teacher’?’ I breathed a sigh in relief after hearing what they said.
From now on, all my neighbors made a letterbox on their doors and wrote ‘teacher’ on it.