Page 447 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

" I do not know so much about Hanoi, but I knew something
about it,

such as the places I have come to visit or join with my friends to
play, what I had seen and kept in my mind, who I had love and
remember ..."

Nguyen leaned his back to the sofa, looked at the ceiling, sighed
and

continued in his emotion :

" Many things to remember Hanoi, Hanoi has the trams, it
started from

the Hom market on the Bach-Mai street, passing the front of
Dong-Xuan

the market then it makes half of cycle on the bank of Hoan-Kiem
lake,

at the front of Hang-Ngang, and Hang-Dao streets, where was
the heart

Of Hanoi capital, then it turns toward O-Cau-Giay and at the end
was the border of Ha-Dong city. Sometimes we would like to save
our money to buy the roasted peanuts from a Chinese man, who
carry a box of the warm

roasted peanuts on his shoulder by the bell, walking around on
the

Hoan-Kiem's sidewalk with his shout "roasted...peanuts...
roasted...

Peanuts ". He was selling his roasted peanuts to the tourists,
who come in Hanoi to see its life. In my knowledge, Hanoi like a
beautiful girl, her heart is Hoan-Kiem lake, She sat on the bank of the
Red River, turned her back to the Hallais, and cry in sobbing, because

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