Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 85

A Lovely Journey
St Stephen's College Preparatory School, Yip, Gracelyn - 6
It’s a sunny day with mild wind breeze. My very good friend and I, Zhang He, got on our boat, ready for
our adventure. It was a very big boat made with wood, ordered by our Emperor Yongle.
We started sailing, we needed a lot of sailors to paddle and it was slow. There was not much to see in the
first 20 days. We were just eating, reading and sleeping on the boat all day long. And then we started to see
a lot of fish and dolphins. They were very shocked when they saw us at first because I believed they had
never seen any Chinese people like Zhang He and myself. After a while, the dolphins flipped their tails
waving to us to say hello. As we didn’t know exactly where we were going, we asked the dolphins to show
us the land. We followed the dolphins for another 20 days, then we saw the land.
We got off our boat, a lot of people were staring at us and pointing their swords to us. They looked very
frightened. To show them we were good, we showed them the treasure that we brought from our own
home. They looked at the vases, jewels and coins. We tried to make our hand gestures to show them these
were the gifts for them. They knew we were friends. They took out their own treasure and we exchanged.
We were very happy making new friends. We ate a dinner with them and then we got on the boat and
ready to go home. On the way back home, suddenly the pirate Chen Zuyi and his people were attacking us,
trying to take away our treasure. I and He fought with them and caught them finally. We tied them with
ropes and took them back to our home country.
We took Chen Zuyi and his people to meet our Emperor, and he sent these bad guys to jail. And then we
showed our Emperor the treasure that we exchanged with our new friends. Emperor Yongle was very
happy. He said I and He did a very good job. He ordered us to go on a second adventure.
I enjoyed sailing with He very much and I wanted to go again with him next time.