1. The Silent Visitor

CALENDAR MYSTERIES APRIL ADVENTURE BY RON ROY

日历之谜四月冒险罗恩·罗伊

Chapter 1 The Silent Visitor Bradley Pinto was having a dream. In his dream, he was following a trail of jelly beans. The jelly beans led him into a meadow. The flowers in the meadow were made of lollipops. The trees were sticks of licorice. There was a stream of chocolate milk under whipped-cream clouds. Little

第一章沉默的访客布拉德利·平托正在做一个梦。 在梦里，他跟着一串软糖走。 软糖把他带到了一片草地上。 草地上的花是由棒棒糖做成的。 那些树是一根根甘草。 鲜奶油云下有一股巧克力奶流。 小

butterflies made of cotton candy flew by. One landed on Bradley's ear. Just as Bradley was about to drink from the chocolate stream, he woke up. Something had touched his ear. Something real! Bradley opened his eyes in his dark bedroom. He saw a shadowy figure tiptoe toward the door. Then the figure was gone. Bradley put his hand on his pillow, near his ear. Something was there! It was hard and smooth and sort of round. He turned on his lamp and grabbed the object. It was a plastic Easter egg! Bradley's twin brother, Brian, sat up and squawked from the next bed, "Hey, what're you doing? It's the middle of the night!" Bradley looked at the clock. "No it's not," he said. "It's six in the morning the day before Easter!" "Happy Easter, Bradley," Brian said. Then he went back to sleep. Bradley sat up and pulled open the two halves of the plastic egg. Inside, he found a folded note

棉花糖做成的蝴蝶飞过。 一颗落在了布拉德利的耳朵上。 就在布拉德利准备喝巧克力流的时候，他醒了。 有什么东西碰到了他的耳朵。 真实的东西!布拉德利在黑暗的卧室里睁开了眼睛。 他看见一个影子蹑手蹑脚地朝门口走来。 然后那个身影消失了。布拉德利把手放在枕头上，靠近耳朵。 那里有东西！它又硬又光滑，有点圆。 他打开灯，抓住了那个东西。 这是一个塑料复活节彩蛋！布拉德利的双胞胎兄弟布莱恩坐了起来，在隔壁的床上大声叫道：“嘿，你在干什么？ 现在是半夜！”布拉德利看了看钟。 “不，不是的，”他说。“现在是复活节前一天的早上六点！”“复活节快乐，布拉德利，”布莱恩说。 然后他又睡着了。 布拉德利坐起来，把塑料蛋分成两半。 在里面，他发现了一张折叠起来的纸条

with these words: DON'T WAKE THE GROWN-UPS. SIGNED, THE SHADOW. "What's going on?" came another voice. "Morning, Nate," Bradley said, looking down from his bed. Bradley and Brian's two best friends had slept over. Nate Hathaway and Lucy Armstrong were in

上面写着：别吵醒大人。 签了字，影子。“发生了什么事？”另一个声音传来。 “早上好，内特，”布拉德利从床上低下头说。 布拉德利和布莱恩的两个好朋友来我家过夜了。 内特·海瑟薇和露西·阿姆斯特朗入选

sleeping bags on the floor. Lucy sat up in her sleeping bag. "What time is it?" she asked as she blinked at the light. Lucy's parents were helping build a school on a Native American reservation in Arizona. She was staying with her older cousin, Dink Duncan, while they were gone. Dink was best friends with Nate's big sister, Ruth Rose, and the twins' older brother, Josh. In fact, Dink and Ruth Rose were having a sleepover, too. They were down the hall in Josh's bedroom. Brian sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Hey, what's this?" he asked. He held up a blue plastic egg. "It was on my pillow!" "I found one, too," Bradley said, showing his egg. "My egg had a note inside." Brian yanked his egg apart. A folded paper fell out. "Mine does, too!" he said. Nate and Lucy soon found plastic eggs on their pillows. "We all have notes!" Lucy said. "Mine says, GO WHERE A ROSE GROWS. SIGNED, THE SHADOW."

地板上有睡袋。 露西在睡袋里坐了起来。 “几点了？”她对着灯眨着眼睛问。 露西的父母在亚利桑那州的印第安人保留区帮忙建了一所学校。 他们不在的时候，她和她的堂兄丁克·邓肯住在一起。 丁克和内特的姐姐露丝·罗斯（Ruth Rose）以及双胞胎的哥哥乔希（Josh）是最好的朋友。 事实上，丁克和露丝·罗斯也在朋友家过夜。 他们在走廊尽头乔什的卧室里。 布莱恩坐起来揉了揉眼睛。 “嘿，这是什么？”他问。 他举起一个蓝色的塑料蛋。 “它在我的枕头上！”“我也找到了一个，”布拉德利说着，展示了他的蛋。 “我的蛋里面有一张纸条。” 布莱恩猛地把鸡蛋扯开。 一张折叠的纸掉了出来。“我的也是！”他说。 内特和露西很快在他们的枕头上发现了塑料蛋。 “我们都有笔记！”露西说。 “我的是，去有玫瑰生长的地方。 影子签了名。”

"Mine says, GET DRESSED," Brian said. Nate crawled out of his sleeping bag. Mine says, THERE YOU WILL FIND DIRECTIONS TO THE TREASURE. It's signed THE SHADOW, too." "Cool, it's a treasure hunt!" Lucy said. "I love treasure hunts! But who's the Shadow?" "Whoever it is, he used a computer," Nate said. "These notes have been printed out." "Josh has a computer in his room," Brian said. "Is your brother Josh the Shadow?" Lucy asked. Brian shrugged. "Maybe. Dink and Ruth Rose slept over last night. I'll bet the three of them cooked up this idea." "But why put the messages inside Easter eggs?" Nate asked. "Because tomorrow is Easter, silly!" Bradley said. "Oh yeah, it is," Nate said. "Happy Easter, guys!" "I think we should do what the notes say and find the treasure!" Lucy said.

“我的上面写着，穿好衣服，”布莱恩说。 内特从睡袋里爬了出来。 我的说，在那里你会找到宝藏的方向。 上面还有影子的签名。” “酷，这是寻宝游戏！”露西说。 “我喜欢寻宝！”可是影子是谁呢？”“不管是谁，他用的是电脑，”内特说。 “这些笔记已经打印出来了。” “乔希的房间里有一台电脑，”布赖恩说。 “你哥哥是影子乔什吗？”露西问。 布莱恩耸耸肩。“也许。丁克和露丝·罗斯昨晚在这里过夜。 我敢打赌是他们三个人想出了这个主意。” “但为什么要把这些信息放在复活节彩蛋里呢？”内特问道。 “因为明天是复活节，傻瓜！”布拉德利说。 “哦，是啊，”内特说。 “复活节快乐，伙计们！”“我想我们应该按照纸条上说的去找宝藏！”露西说。