Page 99 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

sacrificed his life for the country after he had killed about ten
French soldiers, wounded the most soldiers of a French Army
platoon in Thai-Binh city and made the effect on enemy and
public.

Lua walked toward French militarist's platoon to beg for
food with the power of explosive, which had tied on his body
under clothes by a Viet-Minh terror agent.

Lua had learned all of the tricks from a Vietminh's agent
political cadre. He thought he would make friend with the
French soldiers and report their headcount to the Viet-Minh
agent.

It was funny to trick French militarist soldiers by begging
for food, and nothing made Lua afraid for rifles or beating. Lua
was very natural while he was tricking at some French soldiers
and plaid game with others in his innocence. He ran around
them to make fun with every soldier, tried to talk few words of
the French language with the soldiers that he learned from Viet
Minh's agent. Lua had the wrong pronunciation of "Oui, bien,
voila` and mercy beaucoup" but he made all of them laugh.
Sometime Lua mixed up Vietnamese and French language in his
words when French soldier gave him food, such as Oui, bien
(You are good), or “Cam on Nhieu” Mercy beaucoup (Thank
you). Even Lua did not understand the meaning of these
vocabularies that he just spooked out and how to apply for each
word. Also, he made the great pleasure on their wonder eyes by
Lua’s innocent actions. Therefore Lua’s actions and his voice
had made French soldiers laughing and forgot the dangerous
situation that will happen to them anytime on Vietminh's terror
agent.

French soldiers did not pay attention to these tricks of
Vietminh's political cadres by using Lua as a volunteer to be a
moving contact mine. They kept a space around Lua, threw on
him all kinds of food to make him move aside and plaid a soccer
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