Page 44 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

humidity of the water evaporated from the lake. Few of them
met together on the mat around the chessboard and plaid chess
in their silent thinking. Sometimes they stopped moving a chess
piece, talked about the country history of Chinese's empire
occupancy period, or they joked to each other in their fair words
and had the loudly happy laugh.

The red sidewalk brick was around the pleasure colorful
rose garden on the left side of the front church. An old big
banian tree continued growing on the front right corner of the
church and closed to the staircases of the lake bank. It was a
place for the birds to build their nests, and stop by.

On the back side of the Church had an amusement ground
for the children playing and the elementary school, since the bell
ring was count for a class hour. Nguyen had come to this
elementary school every morning to study and plaid on the
amusement ground with his friends.

Around the Church's privacy were seven feet high of the red
brick wall. It repaired on some cracked places, and its color has
changed by the time, dirt and green moss.

Nguyen had a habit to wander about the field to play with
the butterfly in the warm sunrise of the weekend, or watching
the egrets flying in the sky in the sunset. Also in the time
Nguyen could hear the ring of the bell, see the top bell tower,
and catch the top of the banian-tree at a distance on the field.

Nguyen loved to watch the birds flying in the air and the
colorful clouds in the sky at late afternoon. The time, the sun
was death-struggle on the top of the mountain, and the soft red,
blue lights were slowly away on the horizon. The strong gray
clouds come back with simultaneously of the light wind, while
the birds were flying and called each another in the air under
some early stars appeared in the sky. At this time, the country
music was beginning harmony in the wild hall by the insect

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