Page 118 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

worked hard on the field also he was a book-worm person at
night to learn what he wished to know. His mind always put up
somewhere in the sky after his young brother had died by French
soldiers and nobodies know what he was thinking.

At last time Nguyen followed his uncle Cao to fishing in the
afternoon Autumn with his joyful of the pressed air and colorful
clouds. Nguyen saw some bamboo leaves were flying in the air,
floating on the surface of the water as the little boats. The light
winds made noise on the top of the bamboo brush, and a
songbird was sing on its branch. In suddenly, Nguyen heard his
uncle Cao had sighed and talk with him a few words, but
Nguyen did not understand what its mean.

"Nguyen, what do you wish when you became a man?"

"I wish to be a hero like a man in the legend stories that
grandpa had to tell me."

Uncle Cao was laugh loudly and said:

"A man in the Legend stories...! It was an idle fancy."

"But grandpa read it on the books like you were..."

"Nguyen, the legend stories were not true! Do you
understand that?"

Nguyen stared at uncle Cao.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am sure."

"But grandpa..."

"He only told you about the story but did not explain the
mean of legend for you understand." Uncle Cao interrupted.

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