BR 1-13: Chinese Adventure

This is the story in the day of Gran's birthday. She was given many presents. There was a strange present in them. It was a vase made in China. After that her family opened a firework party. They launched a big firework. A pet inside the house was surprised and he knocked the vase over. The vase was broken. Children found it and they tried to mend it. Then, they flied to another world. It was China long ago. They were in the city called the Forbidden City in those days. Because they weren't allowed to enter there, the Emperor got mad. He wanted to put them in prison, but his children wanted to play with them. So the Emperor waited for a day. When children played with ball, it rolled and fell down a grating. One of them tried to put it up. Under the grating, there were many vases. One of them looked like Gran's vase. Then, some people came into there. Children hid inside the vases. The people planned to blow up a palace. Children heard that and taught the Emperor about that. That night, he arrested the people. He praised children, and gave them a vase as a reward. Children came back to real world and looked at two vases. Two looked same, but the backs were different. The marks were different. The vase which given to Gran was a replica.

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Reference: 

Hunt, Roderick & Brychta, Alex

(2003). Chinese Adventure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.