Page 73 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Nguyen's grandma had a sigh after she looked at her spouse
and shook her head in her sobbing.

"But you could not do anything more...!" Her eyes were
moist. She faced toward her house direction and added: "The
war burned anything we built up in a moment and our hands
were a weakness now...!"

"Do not worry anything. I will do my best for you..."

Nguyen's grandma shook her head and cried.

"No. I knew it...! We will live in the coldest, the suffering of
shortage and painful."

"We will try as we had done before." In the low voice that
carried a painfulness, Nguyen’s grandpa said.

Nguyen's grandma looked at Nguyen and her spouse.

"Yes. We will try again, but I knew you would release your
hope."

"I do my best...! I do not think that any houses in the village
were broke and burn down...! Maybe Nguyen's parent house had
furrows by the bullets on its walls only, but it could be still
standing of a part, and we will live in these. Is it OK for you?"

"Yes! I had nothing more to choose." In the sorrow, she
applied.

Grandpa continued:

"Our house burned down...! The war is atrocious! We can
wait for Nguyen growing up. Nguyen can build his house on our
land. Look! More smoke and fire are growing everywhere in the
village. A lot person will die and wounded without help. How

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