501 劉亞璇 阮兆威

“WOW! So amazing!” Joe, Church, Jasmine said at the same time.

“Now, you don’t worry about your schoolwork and just have fun with me! Ha! Ha! Ha!” the old man looks so happy.

“But … where should we go? And how to go?” said Jasmine.

“Wherever you go I don’t have any comment but PLEASE, I don’t want to walk, I’m so tired.” said Joe.

“I agree with you, Joe. Our school is so remote. Even the bus should wait for one hour.” said Church.

Jasmine nodded her head. Joe and Church look at the old man with watery eyes.

“Guys, don’t be sad. I can help you, let me think a while.”

“Ah! I have a magic blanket. We can use it to our destination.” said the old man.

“Really? Can we trust you?” Joe doubted.

“Who just let the time stop?” the old man said with confident.

“Ok, I trust you.” Jasmine and Joe said. ”How about you, Joe?”

“Oh … umm … ok.”

“Blanket, blanket, blanket, I need you, please come to me right now, please, please, please …” Suddenly, a large blanket fly to the old man and let the old man sit on it.

Jasmine, Joe and Church stared at the old man, seem to unbelieve the event happening.

“You guys sit up quickly, or I’m going to go alone.” the old man shouted.

About ten minutes later, Jasmine, Joe, Church and the old man arrive at Sanxia Old Street.

Suddenly, they heard an old woman scream. ”AH! Robbery! Please help me!”

“Hey, the old woman have trouble, we have to help her.” The old man said.

“Don’t worry. I’ll find a way.” Jasmine quickly snatched the words book form Church’s hand.

“Hey! Jasmine, what are you doing? That’s my book! Give it back to me!” Church shouted. While Church’s word finish saying, he saw Jasmine throw his word book to the thief and the word book was just a hit on the thief’s head. Joe and the old man can’t believe to look at this scene.

“That is so cool! I’m going to take a picture and post it on Facebook.” Joe said. Jasmine quickly ran over and grabbed the thief and took him to the police station which located on the Sanxia old street corner.

“Thank you so much, pretty girl.” The old woman said. “How can I repay you?”

“It’s ok, lady. I’m glad that I can help you and it just a piece of cake to me.” Jasmine said.

“Jasmine! My favorite word book is injured. How are you going to compensate me?”

“Come on, Church. It’s not so exaggeration. I can give you my word book, I don’t need it anyway.” Jasmine said.

“All right, guys. Now that accident is over. Can we go now? I can’t wait anymore.” The old man said.

“Where are you going?” the old woman said.

“We are going to take the old man to meet Sanxia Old Street. Would you come with us?” Joe said.

“My pleasure. In fact, I’m a tour guide. I can show you around the old street.”

“Oh, that’s great. Let’s go!” the old man said.

“Today is not a holiday, over wise the crowd must be a lot.” Jasmine said.

“You are right, and the weather is so cool today. You guys are so lucky.” the old woman said.

“Not at all. My word book … … “Church looks so sad.

“Come on, Church. I’ll buy an ice cream for you.” Jasmine looks so helpless.

“Really?” When Church heard that Jasmine want to buy an ice cream for him, his eyes lit up.

“Guys, look at here. The old street’s architectures are rich in Baroque style and it is a traditional block with a historical value in Taiwan. The lettering on the house represents the surname, name, line number or name of the shop, which are not the same way as the present shop signs. The different shapes of gable, the prominent part of the floor which usually the middle part is higher, the two sides are shorter and the tradition is called “Gable” or “Archway”. The figure on the gable is still have some implied, such as the vase symbolizes "peace" meaning, gossip is to ward off evil. Building materials with red brick as the main material, cement powder light is the construction of the materials used in recent years, the walls of the house is made of soil. The more decorative lines in the roof of the prominent part, as well as the second floor of the windowsill below a variety of patterns, there are animal patterns, Chinese patterns, foreign patterns, looks more gorgeous.” the old woman said.

“Wow, it's amazing to be able to build a house like this, and it's amazing how exquisite the patterns are.” the old man praised.

“However, although the old street was prosperity, but as time went on, the old street no longer prosperity and the houses under rain became dangerous buildings. So the local residents gradually moved away from here, the old street was also gradually withered. Fortunately, in 93, the government decided to renovate old Street buildings and streets, in order to preserve the original style, especially by using the sandwich method to preserve the old street architecture. In 96, the Sanxia old street reopened, the Old Street reproduce the eyes of the world. In addition to the complete preservation of the architectural appearance of the old Street, more than 100 different styles of old street houses also form the unique characteristics of old street buildings. In addition, through the enthusiastic input of local people, also let the street began to have a dyeing, traditional crafts ... and other industries. Every holiday street always attracts a lot of people to come and take photos.” the old woman proud.

“Hey, guys. It’s time for lunch. I’m so hungry.” Joe said.

“Me, too.” Church and Jasmine said.

“Ha ha, ok, follow me, I’ll take you to eat some special thing.” the old woman said.

“Yeah!” Joe, Church and Jasmine said.

“Wow! That smells good. What’s this?” the old man said.

“This is the local famous, the Golden Horn Bread. It has 51 years old.

The original for the Golden Horn Bread is that Rofford and his wife who eat a Philippine bread on the plane in a trip, occur to make this kind of bread with Chinese cakes to make a combination, and improve it. After many attempts and break the difficulties of making technology, they study the soft spiral and rich golden croissants in the crisp. Warm fragrance, external crisp inside soft, cold to eat the skin will be more crisp, the interior will be more layered sense, the ice to eat skin will become brittle, the inside will have Q strength.” the old woman said.

“Let's buy some to eat.” the old man said.

“In fact, it also has a variety of flavors to choose, even with ice cream, taste is a good first-class.” the old woman proud.

“Wow! It’s so delicious.” Joe, Church and Jasmine said.

“Finally, I'll take you to the famous temple in the Sanxia.” the old woman said.

“The temple of the Three Gorges is a temple with a stone base and a wooden roof. It’s has "The Palace of Oriental Art". The number of pillars, crown in the temples, has now erected more than 130 roots. Stone pillars no matter round, relief, through carving, are exquisite vivid, lifelike. Wood carving, fine and complicated, each piece of sculpture is vivid. Copper carving, full of historical allusions. Each pillar must have more than 1000 working days to complete, because the stone carving is more time-consuming than wood carving, resulting in the reconstruction of the Temple of the founder than the General temple for a long time and labored.” the old woman said.

“These carvings are really fine, ancient people unexpectedly so powerful, now seems to do not come out.” Jasmine said.

“My introduction today is almost over here, and I have to go back to cooking for my grandson.” the old woman said.

“Thank you for your introduction today, we have a good time and look forward to seeing you again next time.” the old man, Joe, Church and Jasmine said.

“You are welcome. Bye-bye.” the old woman said.

“It's almost time. Today is a beautiful day, thank you willing to come out to play with me, go home and have a good rest, tomorrow time will be restored, good night, everyone.” As soon as the words were finished, the old man vanished into the air.

“The old gentleman is amazing; I don't know if I will meet him again, I want to have his magical blanket.” Church said.

“I also want to go to school by the magical blanket every day! Ha ha!” Joe said.

“All right, guys, it's getting late. Let's go home and get some rest, we still have classes tomorrow.” Jasmine said.

“You're right, Jasmine.” Joe said.

“Bye, see you tomorrow.” Church said.

“Bye-bye.” Joe and Jasmine said.