Page 85 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

“ I thought so...”

Nguyen’s grandma took a look at her husband.

"Where are your bag of gold and money?" She asked.

Nguyen's grandpa pointed to a small hole on the bamboo-
joint.

"I hid gold and money in this bamboo-joint if I will be killed
on somewhere by Viet-Minh soldiers or French colonist, both of
you must remember this bamboo-joint to get it back." He
replied.

She had a quick look at him with her serious face.

"Do not talk and think a bad thing at this time."

"I knew... It was my preventing only.”

“Why? What do you think in your mind? Please tell me.”

“When I tried to look for a shovel on Duc's collapsing store
to bury his family in a cannon hole. I saw a woman crossing his
front yard."

"Maybe, she looked for the food as you were."

"I hope so...!"

"She was a woman. Do not think wrong about her?"

"Yes, She was a woman. However, Viet Minh woman
soldiers were different among their kind! Like you knew Viet-
Minh soldiers were Vietnamese too. Why didn't they care about
the same race with them? They made the blood brother...!"

"But she was a woman! Her hands cannot put into blood...!"

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