Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

Americans don’t have any shabby custom of not wanting to marry a widow for the first time, because they pay attention to women’s “chaste” for religious reasons, but at the same time, they also have high moral requirements for men. Rhett Butler is because of his close relationship with women who have lost their way. will have a "bad reputation".It's all right for a decent young boy to be a little reckless, but if he's a little 'foolish' about men and women, he's going to end up like Philip Robillard, called a 'loafer' and ends up sadly dying .

It’s like brother Charles, his problem is playfulness—in the south, it refers to playing cards and hunting—pursuing actresses, but he has never been heard of going to brothels, and he is an upright young man in this era.Chasing actresses is almost like chasing stars in the 21st century. What Charles enjoys is the "process" of pursuit. Apart from inviting actresses to lunch twice, he has not had any further contact with actresses until now.

Charles said: "This Darcy is not for you, it's too boring."

"Really? I think he can be regarded as a good companion, and he is also very good at finding topics, so as not to be cold. If someone is so stupid that he can't chat, I won't accept his invitation at all."

"Look what he's talking about! Poetry, music!" Charles sniffed. "Who's interested in that kind of topic?"

"Shut up, don't let Dad hear, and he will blame you for being unlearned and incompetent."

"It's boring!" Charles firmly expressed his opinion, "Francis is not bad, I have played cards with him a few times, and his poker skills are not bad."

Josephine felt that her brother was hopeless, "You judge him by the standard of a friend. Tell me, what does he look like at the poker table?"

"Smart poker player, always wins, doesn't like to lose."

"Haven't you ever lost?"

"At least I haven't seen him lose."

"Didn't anyone else see him lose? I don't believe it. No one wins all the time."

Hearing what she said, Charles also became puzzled, "You are right, well, I will ask others. As for you, my good sister, let me see that no one here is worthy of you! "

Josephine pursed her lips and smiled.

"I keep forgetting to ask you, have you seen the Emperor in Paris?"

She smiled again: "Yes." Old Robillard was once a soldier under Napoleon I, and the current French emperor is Napoleon III, so there is indeed some connection.

"What does the emperor look like?"

"Just a middle-aged man, neither ugly nor handsome. Very rich, the treasury is his wallet."

"The emperor lives in the Tuileries Palace, and foreign princes and dukes live in the Elysee Palace when they visit. The emperor sometimes goes to the Palace of Fontainebleau and Versailles." Josephine said flatly.

Mrs. Andenson was very interested, but she wanted to show the arrogance of a well-informed new aristocrat, but she couldn't hold back her desire to have a glimpse of the emperor's life, so she asked very reservedly: "The queen What does it look like? I heard that the queen is very beautiful, and she is from a real noble family."

Mrs. Mayville said: "Oh! It's been written in the newspapers. Although the Queen is very beautiful, but her background is not very good. Her father is just a wine merchant."

When it comes to "family opinion", the new nobles in the old colonies still use the same standard of measurement.France is the "old world" in relative terms, and the United States is the "new world". Soldiers, businessmen, and monks from the old world became new nobles when they arrived in the new world, and quickly equated themselves with the nobles of the old world.

Class distinctions always exist, and whoever says they don't exist is lying.

"The empress is extremely beautiful! Her skin is very fair, her face is fair and soft, and her facial features are well-groomed. There is a large oil painting of the empress hanging in the Tuileries Palace. She is really a dignified and elegant beauty."

"She was 26 years old when she got married, my God! I can't imagine that my little Mary is still not married at the age of 26!" Mrs. Andensson covered her face with an "unbelievable" expression.

Mrs. Mayville immediately smiled meaningfully, "Of course, if her mother's goal is an emperor, it will be worth waiting for so many years."

Several older wives looked at each other meaningfully and smiled.

Indeed, Queen Eugenie's mother is doing "up for sale". Eugenie's beauty can't find a suitable husband, but "suitable husband" is not the best choice, and becoming a queen is the real "sparrow" Become a phoenix".

The French nobles all knew that Napoleon III could not marry a real hereditary princess, so he could only settle for the next best thing and marry a noble daughter. Eugenie's noble status came from her father, a Spanish duke, but the picky French nobles thought that Since when Eugenie was born, her father was only a small earl (the earl was the youngest son in the family), so Eugenie was not the daughter of a "real great nobleman".

But no matter what, the Duke's only daughter Eugenie married His Majesty the Emperor of France. This was the best marriage partner Napoleon III could find, and both parties were very satisfied.

Then the ladies enthusiastically asked about the queen's dress and jewelry.The queen has countless jewels. After the Bourbon dynasty was overthrown, Napoleon I received most of the jewels of the old dynasty; now is the era when Napoleon III is in power, and the queen also has countless enviable jewels.

In order to satisfy the prying psychology of the audience, Josephine cheered up and vividly described how grand the ball in the palace was!There are often 2 to 3000 people attending a ball, and there are so many people participating in the ball that the huge palace ballroom is overcrowded, and the emperor and queen have to dance in the crowd;

The noble ladies and the wives of rich families are all proud of getting an invitation to a palace ball. They order gorgeous dance skirts for the ball and buy jewelry worth tens of thousands of francs. "Ten thousand" is counted, and the money spent by men will not be less than this amount, and you may not have the chance to get in front of the emperor and queen at all;

It is a kind of "honor" to be able to participate in the palace ball, and because there are thousands of people who come to the palace ball, the guards in the palace cannot be well guarded, so the most ridiculous and unimaginable thing happened: someone stole at the ball, And often the number of successes is quite a lot, and they are rarely caught.

The emperor is not good-looking, and he has gained weight, and he likes to play cards, but the guests in the palace don’t gamble; the dinner in the palace is not very good, the emperor and his wife are not gourmets, and the dinner is very short, ending in less than an hour The emperor left first, and then the queen also left. Although the guests were not full, it was impossible for them to sit down and continue eating.

These royal anecdotes have greatly satisfied the wives' desire to spy on the royal family.Josephine is very clever to focus the story on the emperor and empress, and hardly talks about herself.This is what a witty storyteller should do. Being able to tell these gossips that are difficult for outsiders to know with "personal experience" is "low-key showing off", and there is no need to emphasize other things.

The wives of the upper class are also muttering behind their backs that her former husband's surname "Hastings" is obviously an English surname, not a French one, so is this mysterious or unlucky Mr. Hastings really What about the nobility?The servants or slaves of the Robillard family don't call Josephine or Little Victor by title. Does this mean that Hastings is not a nobleman at all?

Emile Robillard had already said that Josephine was married to a French nobleman...

Josephine paid no attention to the muttering behind the ladies' backs.

She often takes free black Lydia and Candace out as guests, and when they go to other people's homes, they are served by the black slaves of the master's house, and Lydia and Candice go to talk to other black slaves of the master's house.The hostess acquiesces in the fact that they can spread the benefits of "gradual redemption" to anyone at will. After becoming a free citizen, they can still choose not to leave the host's house, but their status has changed from "slave" to "servant", and the hostess will pay their salaries. Promise to send their children to school. If there is no school for the little black cubs, the hostess promises that they can find teachers to open a school by themselves, and the hostess will pay the rent and teachers' salaries for opening the school.

"Knowledge is power." Black slaves all understand that Georgia is not without free blacks, and they can even sit in a carriage!Blacks can be lawyers, own land as farmers, and some free blacks even have black slaves themselves!

The black slaves were all very interested in this form of redemption.

Whether you are "free" or not makes a huge difference, even if you are doing the same job.You are a free citizen, doing the same job as before as a servant, you will no longer worry that your master will whip you if you are in a bad mood, and you will no longer worry that your master will whip you if you are not in a good financial situation or lose a card game. Resell it or give it to others, so that you will be separated from your flesh and blood, and you would rather die.The greatest suffering of slaves comes from "not being free" and from the uncertainty of fate.

So they all thought what a lovely lady the Robillards were!

If you want to say that the one who knows the most secret things in a family is the servant/slave. The black slaves know everything. The masters don’t treat them as human beings, so they never avoid talking to them. The topic about Josephine is also the same. The niggers told Lydia and Candace.The wives all agreed that Josephine was indeed beautiful, but this kind of beauty was beyond the reach of ordinary men—what did the wives say?Is it "surrender"?That's probably what it means.

Beautiful women naturally have a romantic style, just a slight smile will make people fascinated, men will bow down to this charming style, and other women will of course have a "sense of crisis".

This is because they are well aware of a man's temperament, and a man is a creature of face, without exception.

The author has something to say:

* There is rice in the United States!Rice cultivation began in the 17th century.

In 1980, my country transferred the technology of hybrid rice to the United States. The rice yield in the United States reached more than 500 kilograms per mu, while that in my country was 390 kilograms.Rice cultivation in the United States is characterized by a very high degree of mechanization. On average, one person can cultivate 1300 acres.California, Texas, Arkansas and other states are the main rice producing areas, and 95% of the annual output is exported abroad.Rice was planted in Georgia, South Carolina and other places because blacks also ate rice, and it was concentrated in coastal areas, because Savannah (near the mouth of the Ogich River) and Charleston (where the Kopel River and Ashley River meet) Haikou) is surrounded by a lot of swamps, and there is no shortage of water.

Before the Civil War, 60% of southern plantations were planted with cotton, while Florida planted sugar cane, and tobacco also accounted for a large share.Among the crops, more wheat and corn are sold domestically, and watermelons are also grown. Because of the high yield per mu, black slaves in summer plantations used it to quench their thirst, and the high yield of corn per mu was mostly eaten by black slaves and used as feed.It is said that "watermelon" cannot be mentioned to black people in the United States.