Page 217 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Movable Battalion. She had lain on her bed with the painful
suffering, rents her heart, and cried in the silent. She did not eat
anything. Instead, she was crying and sobbing. She was much
more like losing her soul with the rough hair and tears.

By the sorrowful, Nguyen and his sister did not go to school.
They were worry of their mother and fearing that she will die
any time by the weakness of hungry and sorrow. They cried
loudly and sat around her bed, and done not know what they can
do for their mother. Sometimes she lay on the bed, hold her
children and all of them were sobbing in the darkness with
tearful.

One day she talked with two her children while she was
lying on the bed.

“My-Thanh, you must take care of your brother if I die.”

“No. Mom...! Do not lease us. You must eat something to
hold back your breath. You were very weak now." In the
sobbing, My-Thanh said.

"I am not hungry!" She looked at Nguyen a continued.

“Nguyen. You must listen to your sister from now. Both of
you must love one of other and do not fighting as before.”

"What happened to you? Mom." In the sorrow voice,
Nguyen asked.

She held Nguyen tight in her arms, while her tears were
dropping on his hair.

"Your father died on the Cho-Noi battle. I will follow him,
and both of you will be alone in the world."

She cried and said, then she looked at My-Thanh.

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