Page 341 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Therefore he broke off action will not apply at the Military Region 1
and First Corps tactical zone for Tet Mau-Than greeting.
Every day, after Nguyen, left the Information and Youth Office.
He had habit stepping around the central downtown. Nguyen walked
on the sidewalk of AmatrangLong, crossed Y-Jut, Ly-Thuong-Kiet, Hai-
Ba-Trung Phan-chu-Trinh streets, then he turned right at Thong-Nhat
boulevard to going home. On the sidewalk of the Thong-Nhat
boulevard had the large student trees on both sidewalks, and its
branches were touching each other in the air. He always walks on the
sidewalk where had the Old Bao-Dai imperial area. It had a high wall
of green moss along with Thong-Nhat Boulevard to separate its
private. Another side was the Sub-Sector, City hall, and Treasury
officials. Those buildings had Regional force soldiers guarding at the
front gates and around those areas.
Nguyen always looked up to see the naked branches of the
student trees dancing in the air, appeared in the high blue sky. They
do not have the red flowers at this season, but they were in budding
of their life, and the birds were singing, flitting from branch to
another.
The light wind with a little chilly of the highlands weather was
blowing on Nguyen's face. Suddenly, he thought of Mong-Thuy-Hoa,
who was his old girlfriend at the time of his student love. She was a
student of Hung-Duc High school, where was on the Military catholic
church privacy, at the end of Thong-Nhat boulevard's sidewalk and
faced to Mr. Huan's coffee plantation on another side of Thong-Nhat
boulevard.
Mong-Thuy-Hoa often wore a dark blue dress and white satin
trousers to go to school. Since her perfect skin color became
attractive, her long black hair was under her wide leaves hat and
covered her shoulder. They became an ornament to her beautiful
face with her brown eyes, straight nose, and heart-shaped lips.
Mong-Thuy-Hoa always had a little smile, pulled down her hat by her
right hand to cover her half right face while she was walking toward
Nguyen after she saw him sitting on the chair under the shadow of
large foot tree to waiting for her.

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