Little Bear Lele wanted to make pancakes, so he carried a cloth bag to the market to buy some flour. He walked and walked, through the small forest, over the single-plank bridge, and over the big mound, until he came to a small window of a mushroom house. “Ding-dong, ding-dong…” A string of melodious piano notes flew out of the window. Lele looked into the small window: Oh, it was Little Rabbit Feifei playing the piano!
“Such beautiful piano music, it would be a shame to let it fly away!” Lele thought. “Let me catch them in my bag and take them home to listen to!”
So, he opened his bag wide and scooped it towards the window. One by one, the notes “ding-dong, ding-dong” fell into the bag. Before long, the bag was bulging. Lele tied the bag tightly with a string.
With the bag full of notes, Lele couldn’t buy flour anymore, so he carried the bag home. As he walked and walked, he suddenly heard a faint sound of piano music from the bag: ding-dong, ding-dong… “Ha, how wonderful!”
Lele couldn’t help but stop. He placed the bag on the ground and put his ear close to the bag to listen. Oh, the music inside the bag was beautiful, like a lullaby. Listening to it, he drowsily closed his eyes…
Rustle, rustle… Two little mice came over and saw the big bag next to Lele. One little mouse whispered, “Look, this bag is bulging. It must be full of delicious food!” The other little mouse nodded and whispered back, “Quick, bite a hole in the bag and sneak in for a feast.”
The two little mice bit a hole in the bag and crawled inside. They saw a pile of notes.
One little mouse asked, “Hey, what are these little things?”
The other little mouse said, “They are bean sprouts. I’ve eaten them before, they are very tender!”
After eating many “bean sprouts,” they crawled out of the bag. Suddenly, they noticed their stomachs were making “ding-dong, ding-dong” sounds and got scared: “Oh no, we’ve turned into musical mice after eating the bean sprouts. If the old cat hears us, we’re doomed!”
The more they thought about it, the more frightened they became. They quickly opened their mouths and spat out all the “bean sprouts” they had eaten, then hurried away.
Lele woke up from his nap, picked up the bag, and continued walking. He didn’t know there was a hole in the bag, and one by one, the notes were falling out, scattering along the road. He climbed over the big mound, and the notes fell to the ground, turning into little saplings. He walked over the single-plank bridge, and the notes fell into the river, turning into tadpoles. He walked into the small forest, and the notes flew up, turning into little birds…
Lele walked all the way home and found that the bag on his shoulder had become flat and small. He put down the bag and looked inside: Ah! It was empty, not a single note left. He saw the hole in the bag: “Oh no, that’s where the piano music leaked out!”
Thank you for reading! ” Sitestorys “
