Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4-7 2019 | Page 248

“Ok, we will go down the ship to find you some treasures we are carrying, but please don’t fire the
cannon, we are surrendering now.” Zheng He told the pirates.
“Crews, we can’t give them our treasures just like this, we need to give these treasures away to the
other country.” Zheng He told crews quietly. Zheng He and the crews were all very afraid and sad, as
they didn’t want to give away the treasure and other precious things right away that they wanted to give
them away to the other country as a gift, they were thinking some ideas to escape from the pirates without
giving the gifts.
“What about this, we are pretended to give them treasures, but, when I said ready, we use a bottle of
water and spill to the cannons, the cannon will be misfired when ignite line get wet. we can get the water
from the sea, and pour at the cannon ignite lines at instant, so they won’t be realize that their cannons were
misfired. When they realized and dried the ignite line of the cannon, we will already escaped from them.
To do this, we can pretend that we are going to get the treasures, they won’t wonder that the truth is we
get a bottle of water.” The crew said to Zheng He.
“Ok, you need to do things quickly as long as I told you, we are danger even if they fired one cannon,
so you need to spill water on every ignite lines of the cannon in the short time, and quickly speed up the
ship.” Zheng He told the crews.
“Are you ready? I will say three two one, and you all spill together.” Zheng He told the other crews.
“Give us the treasure in three seconds, otherwise, I will fire the cannon now!” The pirate ordered
them.
“Spill the water now, ready?” Zheng He told the crews.
“Three…two...one, fire!” The pirate ordered them to ignite the lead of cannon.
As they ignited the lead of the cannon, Zheng he ordered the crews to spill water on the lead. When
the pirate almost fired the cannon, the lead got wet and the fire extinguished after the crews spilled water
on the lead.
The ship then speeded up and went further and further from the pirates. The pirates didn’t hear
“bang”, and soon realized that the leads of the cannon got wet so the cannons misfired. The pirates looked
at Zheng He’s ship, they glared as their ship went further and further. They just missed a target where they
could just get the treasures. The leader of the pirates was very angry, “Why do you miss that target, I will
give you punishments!”
Zheng He’s ship escaped from the pirates, Zheng He told, “Well done, with our smart ideas, we
escaped from them! We will have a party together!”
After a few days, they arrived at the Island of Java. Zheng He asked the crews to unpacked the treasure
that they wanted to give to the foreign country. Their adventure was nearly ended.