Gold of the Gobi
HKBUAS, Agatha Wong, Fiction: Group 1
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nce upon a time, there was a mystical secret passage in one grey boulder in the Gobi
that leaded to…blocks of precious yellow shiny shimmery pure gold. Lots of professional
expert explorers tried to find it, but … all failed shamefully.
Just one little 7 year old boy had the luck. Just one.
“Good morning! Quick, let’s go out for a nature walk.” Eric said happily. “We’re going to
explore the Gobi, aren’t we?”
As he walked along the elegant Silk Road, he saw something peculiar. One boulder had a
white-hot lightning scar!
So Eric knocked at it, and to his surprise, it opened up, revealing a secret passage.
“Mom! Dad! You’ve gotta look!” Eric shouted.
Eric’s Mom and Dad, Agatha and Gilbert, stared openmouthed at the sky-blue passage that led
to the wonderful gold as they stepped in coolly. They stared even more openmouthed when they
saw the gold.
“Oh my gold! No…Oh my god!” Agatha screamed. “We’re going to make a fortune with all that
Gobi gold from the Silk Road!”
Just then, the guardian of the glowing gold, a rare lush gold snow leopard, walked calmly in.
“You’ll pay for that!” the snow leopard growled “You’ll pay for that!”
“Eeee! Help me! I’m scared of snow leopards!” Agatha shrieked to Eric and Gilbert, ducking
behind Gilbert quickly. Eric spotted a spell carved into a wall. He read it out.
“Gobi, Shui le?” (which means “Please sleep, the Gobi” in Putonghua Chinese) he read.
Suddenly there was a huge boom, and then when Eric and his terrified parents opened their
eyes, the leopard was snoring on the passage floor. The tip-toed out, not trying to take any more
gold, as they were scared that the snow leopard will wake up.
“Hhip, hhip, hhooray for EEric!” they sang merrily while their teeth were chattering loudly as
they went home in the cold starry night out of the Gobi Desert.
