Fiction: Group 4
The Tale of Bai Long
SKH Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School, Wong, Kai Hang Davis - 16,
Fiction: Group 4
n bygone days, River Delta was just a small, little stream. On the riverside there was an underpopulated
hamlet, its population is about 100 only. Those villagers are either the weak and old, or the women and
children. Inside this suburban village, there was a young fellow named Bai Long (
白龍
).
Bai Long was a young man with preeminent martial arts. He had been practicing martial art since
childhood and has muscles of iron. Teenagers in the hamlet usually went out to work at about eighteen, but
Bai Long didn’t. As he had to take care of his senile mother, he stayed at the village to keep his mother
accompany. All the time he earned a living by farming and hunting in the forest.
Besides, he even ridded the people of an evil. He used to climb up the high hill and walked
through the forest to kill tigers and chop a venomous snake. In addition to his bravery, he was also a filial
pious young boy who delivered meals to every solitary elder every evening. He has been an acknowledged
hero
in
the
hamlet
long
time
ago.
For those youngsters who had been leaving the hamlet to go out for work, they gathered together
to think of some ways for making a lot of money. One of them suggested developing gold panning at the
source of their mother river. Others immediately agreed with the suggestion and believed that the gold
panning industries would bring them affluent lives. Soon, they exploited the land near the source of their
river. But unfortunately because of the excessive exploitation, the soil around was fluffed up. A disastrous
landslide was not far behind. Just within half a minute, the source of river was entirely blocked by sand and
muds, together with some enormous rocks. Seeing the water flow became weaker and weaker day by day,
eventually nearly no water came out from the source. Although all the youngsters tried to dig a hole for the
long-absent
current,
none
of
them
succeed.
A night, while all these youngsters were discussing a way to solve the problem, a skinny boy among
them was being possessed by some demon. All the others were scared. To their astonishment, the boy broke
silence
and
said
“I am the God of the earth (Tudi Gong)! I am going to tell you the only way to dodge the
calamity. Some must stand out to dedicate his entire life, to be the tutelary god of the village for ever and
ever.”
The skinny boy then felt fainted, all the others came up to support him with hands. Everyone
looked confused and nervous. As they were the only “bread winner” of their families, none of them showed
willingness to stand out. At this moment, Bai Long walked away silently. When he got home, he told his
mother
all
the
things
just
happened.
“Mother, I really want to do something for our village, this is the place where I was born, and the
place
I
love
so…”
“I know what you want to say, son. Go ahead! You need not worry about me.”
They hugged each other tightly without saying another words. The next day, Bai Long went to the
upper river, the place where the God of the earth had mentioned before. He had prepared so well, for
anything likely to happen. All of a sudden, the weather changed. The thunder was accompanied by
lightning. A flash of lightning lighted up the whole village, it just liked every creation was roused from sleep.
Afterwards a beam of mysterious light shined on Bai Long. Bai Long closed his eyes and spread out his arms.
Things
surrounding
him
were
just
like
in
a
situation
of
pause.
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