Page 271 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

personal properties and took his family going to the South of the
1st right way. The bus driver stopped at Guot district closing
Lim market where his cousin was waiting for few hours to help
him unload the whole goods on the bus; then they put them on
the bullock-cart. Nguyen’s father cousin drive a bull crossing
the railroad on the left side of the 1st hight way going to the
wind system of red river dikes with the green rice-field, and the
farmer was working on the delta.

Sitting on the side closing the right wheel of bullock-card
running on the rough dike, Nguyen looks around over the
villages on the red river delta. Nguyen is still afraid of the war at
the time he lived with his grandparent while his parent and his
sister run away communist when he was at school, and other
time that he was alone going back the village, wish to see his
grandparent graves while the war is broke up to block his way.
Nguyen pays attention at his quiet mother, she sat behind the
bullock cart, carried on her face a lot of thinking and worry for
her family some time she looked at Nguyen’s father with her
moist eyes and had a sigh.

Nguyen two sitters My-Thanh, My-Hanh was beside his
mother. They had a conversation of any things that they see on
the field with their surprise; sometimes they called Nguyen to
ask him about the name of the birds and laugh. It seemed their
souls were going with the light wind, running on the top of the
green paddy field and following the wings of the white egrets
that were flying in the air at the horizon. Nguyen’s father sat at
the front of bullock-cart with his cousin, and talk about his
dream that he will do for family, while his cousin always said:
“Yes... Yes... Yes....” and does not give him any feedback
opinion during the time going home.

Nguyen followed his parent to move back his root in Thanh-
Lap village, where he was happy living in his father's cousin
house. Nguyen’s father’s cousin had two boys, Hung is over
Nguyen two years, and Cuong is less than Nguyen one year.
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