When we installed wooden gates in our hometown, the door bolts liked to be made of jujube wood. The characteristics of jujube wood, the material is particularly fine, if we use a hand saw to see a jujube tree, it takes a long time, it feels like cutting an iron rod. Because of this characteristic, the door bolt made of jujube wood, when the bolt is hit, the sound is particularly crisp and bright.
Regarding the jujube wood door bolt, we Shandong Qixia elders passed down such a small story, I still listen to my father.
It is said that a long time ago, there was a lazy man in the village, his family was so poor that he didn't do anything on weekdays, he liked to cat on the kang, and he didn't have money to marry a daughter-in-law, and the people in the village occasionally gave him some food, and sometimes let him go to a short-term job, and he also had some food in his own field, so he wouldn't starve to death anyway.
One year, a fortune teller passed by the village, and by the way, he told fortunes to the villagers, and everyone enthusiastically participated, and the lazy man also went to join in the fun when he heard the movement. Later, when he came to the line, he presented his birthday, and the fortune teller asked, "What do you want to count?" ”
The lazy man said, I want to calculate when I can marry a daughter-in-law, and everyone laughed. The gentleman said, "I think your eight characters are rich and noble!" Everyone laughed again, and said that this man's house has only two acres of land, and grass grows on it, and the grass in the yard is as high as the one in the field.
The fortune teller said, I'll show you the way, you don't have to do a lot of construction, find a good piece of jujube wood, change the door bolt at home, correct it every morning at five, hit the door bolt three times, the louder the better, I will ensure that you will be rich in three years.
The lazy man was overjoyed, convinced, went home and changed the deadbolt slowly, after the change, he was so excited that he didn't sleep all night, and he didn't stay up late for many years, this long night, it was finally to the fifth watch, the lazy man got up, and went to the courtyard, ** snapped, threw the deadbolt three times, the sound was crisp and bright, how far it went, the lazy man couldn't help but applaud, this movement is so good, over, satisfied to go back to sleep on the kang, maybe too excited, the lazy man can't sleep! I stayed up until dawn, I wanted to have some breakfast, but I didn't have anything at home, so I went to the village for a walk, watching the smoke rising from the cooking and the fragrant food, and it was not a taste in my heart, to be honest, I really didn't get up so early. Watching others cook, I am also sad, alas, when can I come to this rich man, even if I have a hot meal in the morning! Come on, I'll have to knock on the door of our house in the future, and don't delay for a day, so that wealth and nobility can come early.
On the fifth watch of the next day, the lazy man got up on time and knocked on the deadbolt as usual! Then go to sleep on the kang and go back to sleep, it's also strange, from this day on, the lazy man knocked on the deadbolt, and he couldn't sleep when he went back, and he was still hungry, oops, this is uncomfortable.
Seven or eight days passed like this, and on this day, the lazy man knocked on the deadbolt and sat on the edge of the kang in a daze, I couldn't eat or sleep, what should I do? Come on, I'll go out for a walk.
The lazy man pulled his shoes, and walked to the field, and saw a piece of land from afar, the grass in the field was higher than other people's wheat, and the lazy man smiled at a glance, whose land is so good-looking, and the wheat grows in the field, this is the long grass, and it is embarrassing to get closer, this is his land, the ground is full of barren grass, and the wheat that I borrowed last year is not big, just seeing the grass, the lazy man thinks that it is okay to be idle anyway, I will pull out this grass.
Since then, the lazy man went to work in the field every day after hitting the door bolt, and watched the ground dry, so he picked up water and watered it, but he didn't expect that the wheat in his field grew better than others this year, so three years, the lazy man got rid of poverty and became rich, and married a daughter-in-law, and after a few years, the lazy man became a rich man in the village.
Everyone praised the fortune teller for his insight into people, and the matter of this jujube wood door bolt spread farther and farther, and everyone used the jujube wood door bolt to make the door.
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Su Zhi, a native of Yantai, Shandong, born in the 80s, has worked as a doctor, salesman, financial director, marketing director of an e-commerce company, business management consultant, etc., and is currently a freelancer.
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