One day, Ernie was late for school. He ran up the school hill and drilled through the hole in the fence. He hoped that the headmaster hadn't seen him.
"Wow!" Ernie gasped for air.
There is a ghost ship floating on the playground. It looks like an ordinary ship, but it is white and transparent. He knew it couldn't be true.
The ghost ship was tied to a basketball and tennis post. A strange light came from there, shaking up and down, as if driving an invisible sea. A ghost seagull flies around it.
"Hey, ghost boat!" Ernie shouted bravely.
A ghost's head sticks out of the window. "Who said that?" Asked the ghost.
"I'm right!" Ernie said.
"But you shouldn't see me!" The ghost gasped.
Then the ghost thought for a moment.
"Are you sure you can see me?" Asked the ghost.
"I'm sure." Ernie said.
The window slammed shut.
"I'm talking to a ghost!" Ernie shouted.
Miss Wiggins, the doorman, heard Ernie shouting. She ran to the playground.
"I talk to-talk to-talk to a ghost!" Ernie stammered.
"shh! Don't tell anyone. " Teacher Wilkins said.
"Why?" Ernie asked.
"I don't want you to upset ordinary children!" Teacher Wilkins said.
"But this ghost ship is parked on the playground," Ernie said, "but they will see it when they come out at rest."
"Not everyone can see it." Teacher Wilkins said.
"Well, I can see that." Ernie, tell him.
"That's the two of us." Miss Wilkins sighed.
Mr. Wiggins strode to the ghost ship.
"ah! Ship! " Cried Miss Wiggins.
The window opened with a bang, and a ghost looked out.
"ah! Mr Wilkins, "said the ghost politely.
"Captain Pi Glegg!" Teacher Wilkins scolded, "You promise that no one can see you except me. But a class four kid saw it! Isn't it, Ernie? "
"Yes," said Ernie, "I saw it."
"Well, it might happen, you know," said the captain, sounding a little uneasy. "Not often, but it happens sometimes."
"If anyone can see you, don't sail here." Teacher Wilkins said firmly.
"I can't help sailing here." The captain told her.
"Why?" Ernie asked.
"Only I am on the boat!" The captain said, "I can't sail alone, so I have to go with the flow." I just hope it can float further here. Then I can look for my treasure. "
The captain went on to say, "I am destined to sail at sea forever until I lose my treasure." I know it's here because it's drawn on my map. "
"You'd better find it this time, or else!" Teacher Wilkins warned.
The window slammed shut.
"Ghost treasure!" Ernie said, "Wait, I'm going to tell Class Four about this!" " "
2. "We can't see it!"
Everyone has to wait until the break to see the ghost ship. They rushed out of the classroom to the playground.
"That's it!" Ernie shouted, pointing to the ghost ship.
Everyone looked at it carefully. They saw trash cans and fences, but they didn't see any boats.
"We can't see it!" Louis said.
"But there is a ghost ship here!" Ernie said, look at it and walk past it at the same time. The ghost ship is transparent and fuzzy.
"There is no ghost ship here!" Louis said.
Ghost seagulls flew down and landed on Louis' head.
"A ghost seagull just landed on your head." Ernie told Louis.
"Oh, no, no!" Louis said he couldn't see or feel.
"Oh, yes, it is!" Ernie shouted.
"Oh, no, no!" Everyone else shouted wildly.
They laughed at Ernie for making up stories about ghost seagulls and ships. Then they went to play.
Jed, the youngest and cleverest in Class Four, came over. "What's that ghost ship doing here?" She asked Ernie.
"You can see that, too!" Ernie gasped for air.
"Of course I can see it." Jade said.
"No one can see it except me and Mr. Wiggins," Ernie said. "This is Captain Pi Glegg's ship. He is destined to sail at sea forever until he finds his lost treasure. He thinks he left it here. "
"We can help him find the treasure." Xiaoyu said.
"How to find it?" Ernie asked.
"My father has books about treasure hunting," Jed said. "We can read his book and see what to do."
"The search for ghost treasure begins now!" Ernie shouted.
"Let's start after reading Dad's book!" Jed said
The bell rang for class.
"School is over!" Jed told him, "Don't wander around after school!"
Step 3 look for treasures
After school, they went to Jed's home and got her father's book about treasure hunting.
"That's what we did!" Jed said, showing Ernie a page.
"But we can't get anything from it." Ernie said, pointing to the metal detector.
"My father did," Jed said. "He used him when he was looking for coins and things on the beach. That's why he has all the books about treasure hunting. "
They ran back to the school hill and arrived at the school. Ernie is carrying a shovel, and Jed is carrying a big bag with a metal detector.
"Captain Pi Glegg!" Ernie shouted.
The captain is on deck. "It's you again!" Captain Pi Glegg said, "Can you still see me?"
"yes." Ernie said.
"We all know that you can't stop sailing until you find your lost ghost treasure." Jed told the captain
"We want to help you find it." Ernie added.
"But we want to see your map first." Jade said.
The map was torn to pieces and there were many holes in it.
"Ghost seagulls peck it like this!" Pi Glegg said.
"It says: X marks the treasure on the map," Jed said, "but I can't see any X."
"Ghost seagulls pecked off my X .. I don't remember where," Pi Glegg said with a sigh. "I can't even find Treasure Island ... but I'm sure it was here before."
"Yes!" Jade grinned and replied, "Treasure Island is here, where we stand!" "
"How do you know?" Ernie asked.
"Look!" Jed said she drew it on the back of the captain's map.
"This sudden place is the school hill!" She told Ernie, "The place where our house is now used to be under it, many years ago. My father told me. "
"We still don't know where to look!" Ernie said, "We can only dig all day and can't find the treasure."
"We will use my father's metal detector," Jed explained. "When we get close to the treasure, it will make a bang."
"If only the metal detector could work in the ghost treasure!" Ernie muttered.
"Well, it might work," Jed said. "At least we can try."
They are looking for treasure.
But they didn't find it ... they looked and looked ... and looked and looked. ...
..... they watched and watched ... and watched and watched. ...
Then the metal detector made a bang, bang, bang sound.
This is a treasure.
They dug up Captain Pi Glegg's ghost chest full of gold. There is ghost gold in it, so it is not as heavy as real gold. They began to move it back to the boat.
At least, that's what they did at first. But when they walked back to school, the ghost box began to fade. Captain Pi Glegg also calmed down.
"Goodbye, Captain Pi Glegg." Jade whispered.
"Because we found Captain Pi Glegg's treasure, the ghost ship subsided." Ernie told Class Four the next day.
"There is no ghost ship." Louis said.
"Oh, yes, there is." Ernie shouted.
"Oh, no, I didn't." Everyone else shouted.
Somewhere far away, a ghost seagull appeared. But no one heard, except Ernie. Jed and Mr. Wilkins.