We met him on our way home that evening. He looked worried. After saying, “Good
evening” to each other, he said, “I cannot get into my home now, I don’t know how I can do now …”. With great difficulty we had understood that he had left the key to the door at home, because when he came out for a walk he changed a
thick coat and unfortunately the key was in the pocket of another thin clothes
that he wore in the daytime. “ I have no idea what I should do next and some friends are waiting for me to play a card game.” He said.
He had been known by us for many years yet and used to be a keen and wise person
. He did never do any careless thing before. We found he had quickly become weaker for recent years. He must be too old to manage himself well. It must be sure
a big problem for him that where he could stay for an entire night in such cold
winter, rather than the waiting of his friends, if he could not get into his house. Even if we provided him a place to spend this night where could he live tomorrow, as well as the day after tomorrow…? What the thing we should do was to
help him open the door.
We called the police number 110 right away by his mobile phone to ask for someone who was able to open any lock without any key. At this time he even did not forgot to go to the friends to say “sorry”.
A few moments later, such an expert was found and came across. In front of the door locked we asked the comer whether he made sure to pick the lock or not. He just looked at the lock in the door for minutes, and then said “This is not a very common lock so I want 40Yuan to do that. Of course I admit to solve it.” In
our opinion there is on doubt that the lock must be very much general and it was
not worth so many money. But what can we do? We had to accept the unfair condition. We saw the expert inserting the keyhole using some special short wire tools, after he tried several times the door was opened。It took his just less than
10 minutes.
We all set our hearts at rest then. He paid the expert 40 Yuan and gave us a bottle of medical wine for thanking.
After entered his home he picked the clothes and took out the key from the pocket. Raising the key he said, “Let me tie my key to my trousers at once so that
it will be with me wherever and be never left.” We laughed.