Lost But Found
Pui Kiu College, Thomas Chung Chit Ming, Fiction: Group 2
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here was once a child called Fu, his mother and he lived in a little wooden shabby house
with little furniture in it. In winter, they suffered in cold, his mother was a babysitter in
Mongolia, who often came home very late, when the moon was high in the sky, but when
it was night, his mother would sing a song and tell a story until Fredrick dropped off to
sleep. Although the story was the same every night, he never found it boring.
“Son, do you know that your great grandfather was once a wealthy and rich person?”
“Oh really? Tell me about him!’’
“Your grandfather was once a banker, just in one month, your great grandfather could already
buy ten tons of gold, but he never revealed his identity to anyone. One day, he was drunk and
accidentally revealed his true identity to his least trusted friend, Pui. Of course, Pui loved money,
so that night, just one night, he tried to assassinate him twice. But he did not succeed, and when
Pui made a third attempt, he knew that he could not escape from Pui.”
“What happened then?” Fu asked eagerly.
“Your great grandfather moved from time to time, but Pui kept following him. So he decided
to bury all his money in the Gobi desert.’’
“Why didn’t he put it in the bank where it is safe?”
“Oh son, if Pui can break through your great grandfather’s home to assassinate him, then
of course he can break into the bank. Son, until now, all the men in our family tried to find the
treasure, but no one has succeeded, that was also how your father died. ”
The next day at school, Fu told his friends what his mother had told him the day before, but
unfortunately, the story ended up in the school’s big bully’s ears.
“Your great grandfather was a rich man? Stop trying to make something up to show that you
are ‘rich men.’ Instead, why don’t you tell us something about your daily life so that we can know
how poor you are?” laughed Ling.
“Take it back, Ling,” said Wai, Fu’s friend, “I don’t find that you are very rich.”
Now Fu really wanted to punch this big bully. In Fu’s mind, Ling was always picking on
someone who was not as wealthy and rich as he was. But the truth was that Ling was also very
poor, he just wanted a reason to bully the weaker students in the school.
Then Fu asked his friends if they wanted to sneak up at night and go to the Gobi desert to find
the treasure; his friends agreed that they would go, so Fu told them where to meet, what to pack,
and most important of all – he promised to share the money with them.
So at midnight, Fu crept though the door, horrified by the sound which the door made when
it opened. It was a very silent and peaceful night, and Fu was delighted, because usually some
drunks would come out and use wine bottles to hit people just for fun. When he got to the desert,
his friends were already waiting for him. They all looked chubby in their many layers of clothes
because the Gobi desert was just too cold for thin clothes. According to his mum, his grandfather
had frozen to death after one night in that desert, so of course he had warned his friends to bring
more clothes.
The boys travelled for a long time. Within a week, they found the cave easily but one of his
friends, Seng, got sick, “I know I shouldn’t have touched that green slime, now it is making me sick!”
