Page 105 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Nguyen nodded his head and said:

"Yes Grandpa, I promise..." Suddenly Nguyen looked at his
grandpa, shook his head, he added:

"Grandpa, I could not keep my mouth shut, because I must
take a turn to confess about what I was thinking, what I had
done and heard every day to Mss. Hang and among the kids in
the meeting time."

"Oh... I forgot those things...!" Grandpa bends his head in a
moment of thinking. Suddenly he had a little smile, put his
hands against Nguyen's shoulders and stared at Nguyen's face in
his sight eyes. He added:

"I knew now...! Listen to me... Nguyen, you will tell them in
your confessing time that you do not hear, do not know and do
see nothing."

"What is its mean...? Why...?"

"Its mean you are like a deaf kid and nothing more to know.
Why...? It was a lesson that Vietminh's political cadre and the
terrorist agent taught the people to answer French militarist
soldiers. So you can reapply those lessons back to them."

"Yes, sir... But if they press me to talk, what I can do?"

"Easy... Do not be afraid of them. You will repeat the same
words that you had told them even you had repeated a hundred
times and did not forget what you had told."

Nguyen looked at his grandpa in his sorry sight eyes.

"Grandpa, Mss. Hang will beat me up!" In a low voice, he
said.

Nguyen's grandpa holds Nguyen in his arms and console:

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