Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 19

Dingding’s Voyage
Dulwich College Beijing, Wang, Emma - 6
Dingding was a smart boy with a brave heart and lots of creative ideas. He dreamed being a famous sea
explorer. His has an old book about the Ming treasure voyages. He read it many times.
One dark night when he read it again. he found something glowing on the floor. It was a golden key! After
he picked it up, the house started to rock side by side with huge waves outside. Suddenly a huge, dark
shadow rose towards Dingding.
When he woke up, he was in a cozy room with a warm blanket. Just then a soldier came in. He said:” You
were sleeping for 3 days, we thought you would never wake up. I am not exaggerating.” “Are you a movie
star? Why are you wearing a strange costume?” asked Dingding. The soldier laughed:” what the movie
mean? You looked more unusual.” Suddenly Dinging realized the old book had brought him to the ancient
times. “Where are we?” Dingding keep asked. “We are in 1406 and this is zhenghe’s ship.” Dingding was
shocked.
Zhenghe was very proudly to introduce Dingding around. “we have more than 200 ships, half of the ships
carried 20000 soldiers and rest of the ships were store the food, drinking water and the horses.” They
became friends.
They were following the voyage map for couple of days. On the sunny morning Zhenghe saw an immense
green island full of coconuts trees. The local people did a warm greeting when they landed. They help the
soldier to amending sails, cleaning the deck. The island emperor gave them a shiny twinkling diamond.
Dingding advised Zhenghe to organising a fest to celebrate the friendship. They prepared traditional Chinese
food and puppet show. The emperor said “Thanks for everything! Your food is delicious especially the
steam rice. “Just then Dingding whispered to Zhenghe：” we could send people to teach them planting and
cooking rice. ““Good idea!” said zhenghe. Since then, all the islanders could have steam rice on their tables.
One morning Dingding saw a grey shadow far away. He ran to Zhenghe and called:” There is a shadow on
the horizon” Zhenghe trained his telescope on the horizon. The pirate ship was towards to the fleet.
Zhenghe asked the crew rush to prepare the cannon, load their pistols and practice their sword fighting.
They drove closer to the pirate ship in the high speed.” Kill them!” Ordered by Zhenghe. They began to
fight with the pirates. With a gigantic BANG.The powerful fire bomb target the pirates ship. It scared the
pirates run away. “We won!” Everyone shouted.
On the lazy afternoon Dingding was fishing with Zhenghe. He saw shiny object looks like dimond in the
fish mouth. It was the golden key! Dingding know it was a time to go home. ”I will miss you little
man！”Zhenghe sighed. They hugged each other tightly. Suddenly the key began to grow, dinging back
home with his parents again!