The Winding Road

 Ni Zhengfei/ Sichuang Huacong Middle School

Just behind my house is a mountain.On the mountain there is a windy road that bends and winds all the way to the top.Along this road is a local marketplace where you can and sell lots of things.The market place and the road have been around for generations and generations.

The mountains name is very beautiful, 'Winding Road Mountain'. This mountain has a very close place in the hearts of my family and the other villagers. My grandfather loves telling old stories about the mountain. He once told me that in the 1920's the Nationalist Party came through our town and decided that the main road needed repairing. Not too long after a group of explorers came to our town carrying a device no one had ever seen before. Using this device the started to surgery the area. Wherever they went, the villagers followed them to see what they were doing. Not before long they decided that a road should be built, and what’s more that it would go right by my grandfather’s house!

After some time studying the mountain, the exhibition team said the mountain had something precious inside it. The tale went that there were golden rabbits that popped gold into the river living in the mountains. There was also another tale that there was a golden millhouse inside the mountain. In the millhouse worked an old woman who would grind rice every day and night. Every night she would open the mountain door and give a bag of rice to any villagers lucky enough to meet her. When the villagers would get back home the rice would have turned to gold!

However, unfortunately no gold was ever found on the mountain. However one of the good things that came from the explorers coming to our town, is that they helped build our road. That was around 80 years ago, the mysterious road still stands proudly today.