Page 58 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

beyond his bound in secret and a little bit scary for the beating
sound in the dark.

After Nguyen’s half body was appearing out of the dog-
hole, he opened wide his eyes in his wondering and afraid to
look at the candlelight place. Around it, Nguyen was just able to
see the five Viet-Minh soldiers with back uniform around the
naked man and woman. They had discussed on the victims in the
secret low voice that

Nguyen could not hear it. A Viet-Minh soldier tore off the
woman's clothes to take the fragments and covered the victim's’
mouths. A naked man victim had bent his head sitting nearby the
rice-mill that had candlelight on its top. His arms tied on his
back and blood bled out from his mouth dropping on his chest.

A naked woman was shaking, cowered herself at the wall
corner and stared at them by her afraid wide eyes.

Nguyen could not move out of the dog-hole by his emotion
of afraid. He feared to get a beating as a naked man since he
bites his lips to keep a silent and hid behind the granaries in the
dark. Quietly he opened wide his eyes to watch the evil actions
of five Viet-Minh soldiers.

The soldiers surrounded a naked man with their dirty words,
tortured a naked man in a rude state while he could talk. He only
shook or nodded his head to answer after the frequent questions
of a Vietminh officer.

“Were you a teacher?”

“Do you speak the French language?”

“Are you an informer of French colonial?”

A man shook his head, while a Vietminh soldier kicked on
his back and said:
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