Page 100 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

ball with him on the ground. Then the explosives on his body
exploded like thunder when a French soldier held Luat tight in
his arm. The ground was strongly short by the pressure of
explosive. Lua's body disappeared, and instead, a lot of small
pieces of meat mixture with the chunks of ground and bricks at
the front collapsed the house. The flame and smell of burning
body were rising in the air, and the screams inside the house
were echoed out for help. French soldiers' casualties lay on the
ground with their bodies have broken apart or lost after
explosive pressure tossed them up in the air. The wounded
struggled everywhere on the ground around the area, blood bled
on their bodies, and they screamed for help.

After Mrs. Hang had promoted Lua story, she told the
legend stories in her fair and smooth voice, and all kids were
quiet to listen. She used the affected words to excited the kids in
the village, drove the kids into the emotion of satisfying for the
country and will be the volunteers as Lua to kill French militarist
soldiers. Viet-Minh called it was the action of the greatest hero
kid to seek independence and freedom, and Lua was a brick to
build the foundation of the "Party Of The People" or "The Labor
party." She asked them to join with the kid's volunteer force to
fight back the country’s enemy.

At the end of the called for the volunteer hero, all of the
kids must take a turn to stand up for confessing his/her fault,
which he/she has done right or wrong at the weekdays.

A dozen kids had been standing with their afraid to confess
themselves to Mss. Hang. Also, they were ashamed among the
hundred watching eyes of friends that looked at them as the fire
to melt the ice. They were quietly to listen to the confessions and
made decisions like a hard judge. In turn, Nguyen stood up,
walked out of the kid's cycle toward Mss. Hang in the center and
stopped at a short space between him and her. Nguyen confessed
his faults to her, but he had hidden one thing, which he thought
nobody could know about this thing excepted Khai, his real
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