Where are the dirt and sand roads winding windswept Laos wind in the hot summer noon? Where are the rows of red-leafed almond trees, brilliant phoenixes, every summer, the cicadas humming in the streets and yards? Where are the bamboo bushes in the heart of my childhood city? Where are the little ponds - born from a time of bombs and bombs, and when did I fish? Where are the simple thatched roofs? Where are the silhouettes of Thong Nhat and Phuong Hoang bicycles that we "plowed" on every street in Vinh dear city? Where is the eel porridge shop Mrs. Luong (street 4) smells sweet? Where is the Vinh market with half-provincial, half-bustling countryside? Where is the Cua Dong cinema where we sometimes stop in to watch the "hot" movies at that time: "The parallel of 17 days and nights", "The game is upside down", "Turn off the lights", ...? Where is the People's Theater on the way back to Ben Thuy, but our childhood football days often sneaked into “watching music? Where is the fragile Cua Tien bridge with two illustrious pillars, where there are 3 hamlets full of bamboo walled houses, every childhood when listening to Hue songs, I still deeply miss the fishing village by the river. My Vinh is now modern, new and overwhelmed, hustle ... I am walking lost on the streets of Hue, Da Nang, Saigon. Are not. Vinh there. The city has turned into a real skin change! The house is tens of floors towering, 4 or 5 floors like weaving. Shops and shops are full of lights with colorful billboards of all kinds. Monumental office. Vinh Railway Station, Vinh Bus Station ... are also different from the old days. The green trees along the roadside are neatly trimmed and eye-catching. The streets were wide open and more open than before. Motorcycles of all kinds of colors, internal and external, are pervasive on the street. Then the mechanics are cars, luxury cars, good cars. Vinh now has no shadow of my Vinh more than 20 years ago. There was a time when I did not dare to think about rediscovering the homes of my friends in the past. Because this is extremely difficult, the traces of old years have blurred over time. What a hard to imagine! It was just like my friends from abroad, after returning to Vietnam, came to talk to me: “If you return home, you will be very surprised! Going back so long, what other silly things like a country brother to the province? " At that time, I still laughed: “Hmm, Vinh and I have closed our eyes to find out where to look! "Thuong Cau Ro, Lower Ben Thuy" is there any place without my footprints? " Some of my classmates in grades 9, 10 ... when they heard that I was returning home, they held a meeting, a juicy meeting, to review the old mentor. It seems that all of them are mature and up to grandparents! They also teased me: If you return to Vinh now, how different does a Martian visit Earth? My brother said: "Vinh is now a primary city, expanding to a few communes of two neighboring districts of Nghi Loc and Hung Nguyen ...". No wonder. Too many strange streets. The horizontal line is like a chess board, much different from the old days. Fortunately, there are still students who love street soccer like us in our childhood. Unfortunately, we have not had the opportunity to enter the city stadium to watch Song Lam Nghe An football team play. There are probably no large wooden boards left as chairs for the audience, but every flood season, our children and students make fake battle rafts! My sister laughed and said: "You have not come back for a long time, Vinh has changed into a new shirt!" For example, Ho Chi Minh square, spacious and wide, occupying the eye ... Then Chung mountain simulated behind Uncle Ho monument is also a work with great effort. The Labor Club, the Quang Trung apartment building, the cinema 12/9… nestled humbly next to the tallest buildings of the youngest, but "post-natal". One thing that I can easily see is that people's lives have been improved much. Daily meals are less miserable than before. It seems that the dress is no longer the usual daily worries like when I was at home. However, there are still people who are really anxious to manage every day while the salary is still low. A change like molting has made the face of my hometown Vinh more beautiful. The Lam River is still gentle, flowing, and drifting as if it is still flowing nowadays ... Ben Thuy Bridge has added "younger brother" beside it, although it is not as majestic as "its brother", because in my own opinion: Why don't we add a wavy bridge wall that is both beautiful and safer for vehicles? Our country has never been so beautiful! My heart still overflows with emotions that are hard to say when counting the steps on the steps of Hoang De Quang Trung Temple - Nguyen Hue ... on Quyet Mountain! When I was with my best friends since I was in 9th and 10th grade at high school in Vinh, while standing respectfully in front of the statue of King Quang Trung (next to him is father and mother) in the main hall, a lot of things were raised in me. think about him. I thought that if he had lived for a few more decades that day, history might have been different. Vinh must have been a new capital of the country. Unfortunately, he passed away so suddenly leaving behind many unfinished business fortune. ... Walking on the immense streets of Vinh city today after years apart because of living in a human land. I'm filled with overwhelming emotions that are hard to say ...
