Shortlisted
The Young King’s Great Dream
Linus Shing Su
ot so long ago, in galaxy not far away at all, I have a weird friend on earth. He is Johnny. One day, he
invented a Wormhole Maker. He wanted to try it to see whether it worked or not. He went to the Qin
dynasty at random. Johnny landed on a meadow and saw nobody but a small child. “Where are the
other children?” he thought. “Never mind, this child looks cool and smart.” So Johnny invited the
child to his toysland. The child nodded. Actually he did not say a thing.
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The child followed my weird friend back to his toysland. The child saw Lego. His eyes were shinning, his
mouth opened widely. He loved it like crazy. He loved the shape, smell, and just everything about Lego. He
played it from day to night; he forgot lunch and dinner. He only kept on playing Lego. He built horses, ships, a
mausoleum and toy army. By the time they had to go, he was unwilling to stop and very reluctant to go back
home.
The child went back to ancient China. He told all the villagers about his journey. The villagers could not
believe it. Years later, the child grew up. He became the king of the Qin, Chin Shih Huang .He still remembered
and missed the trip. He ordered his generals to make Lego. His generals had no idea about Lego so they couldn’t
make any. The king tried to explain and roared “Make something like blocks! Rectangular in shape! They can
pile up into bigger blocks! Very hard and difficult to break! They are called Lego! L-E-G-O!” Those generals
told the blacksmiths, locksmiths, farmers, carpenters, builders and designer to make Lego. Finally, they made
pillows, rectangular keys, blocks of hay, shelves, stools, bricks and tissue boxes. The king shouted, "NO! NO!
NO! It does not look like this!”
One day, a man who looked like an ugly fairy came to the king. He was wearing a white robe, a white straw
hat and a pair of white shoes. He was also holding a very long staff with a white disgusting viper on it. He said
to the king, “I can help you, but you have to give me five-hundred smart and strong boys, five-hundred clever
and beautiful girls and a huge double-decker ship which can carry a large amount of food and water, and
animals like horses, cows and chicken…. ” The king said, “If you can find me Lego, it is a deal!” The king gave
him everything he wanted and waved goodbye to them. But, one year later, the ship did not return. A few years
later, the ship still did not return. The king knew that he was deceived by that ugly man; he knew the fraud
would not come back again so that he went bananas. He was out of patience now so he decided to build a giant
team of big wooden ships and giant wagons by himself. He caught thousands of slaves, workers and even
farmers to work. He sent the ships to the ocean and wagons to the mountains. The only mission was ‘find the
Lego’. A few months later, the workers on wagons came back with a pile of goods. But it was only chicken
LEG, pig’s LEG, lamb’s LEG and even insect’s LEG. The king became angry. A few years later, the sailors
returned with a whole ship of goods. They found lots of things that started with letter ‘O’, they found Oranges
and Oreo from America, they found Olive from Greece, Opal from Australia, Octopus from Sweden, Orchid
from Africa…. When the king saw all the things they got from the ships and wagons, he went angry and mad.
He fainted and got sick.
As the time went by, the king missed Lego and had dreams about it. He got more and more sick. Finally he
could not get out of his bed. His minister brought many doctors to cure the sick king. All of the doctors failed.
The other generals kept on searching for this unreal object. All of them did not come back! At last, a general
named Monk had an idea. He ordered his soldier to collect a large amount of stone and pile it up on top of the
mountain like a castle. It was because the mountain is too far away that the sick king could not see it clearly
through the window of his bedroom. Several months later, Monk brought the sick king in front of the window
and said, “My majesty, we have found the Lego. Look! We have made you a castle from it! ” the king was very
happy, he told his minister,” When I get better, I will go on top of it by myself, keep on building it!”
Unfortunately, the king never got well. So the workers had to keep on building it. Nobody dared to stop. The
castle became longer and longer until it become a giant wall.
At the end of the winter, their enemies came to attack. They went to rule the ancient China. When they
arrived at the boundary, the enemy captain said, “What is this long wall? How can they make them so long?”
They tried to get over it. They tried to use ladders, but the wall is too high. They tried to dig through it with
pickaxes, but the wall is too hard, all pickaxes went blunt. They tried to go around it, but they could not find the
other end because it was too long. At last, they run out of food but still could not break through the giant wall.
Then the captain decided to retreat. The sick king relieved and signed, “What a great wall! From that time on the