Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

The Robillards don't celebrate Christmas, which is a family dinner together on Christmas Day.

Victor loves these moments when the whole family gets together.

He has already understood that he is the darling of his grandparents, and in the words of the Hei Nanny, that means "spoiling him to the sky".His mother seldom went out at night in the United States. He didn't know why, but he only knew that his mother could tell him stories at night and put him to sleep.

He likes such a mother very much, and he is determined to write to his cousin Katie and tell her everything here.

Adults can write letters, mother and grandmother write letters every day, but he can't spell many words, so he can't write letters by himself, but it doesn't matter, he can read to Sheldon like Black Sister, let Sheldon Don wrote the letter for him.

Mom said that he should learn to write letters by himself earlier, and writing letters seems to be not difficult.

His grandfather hadn't found a suitable tutor for him, so he had to follow Sheldon or Percy to learn to recognize letters and write words five days a week.Both grandfather and grandmother are busy, and he doesn't know why they are so busy!But they were all willing to take him out. My grandfather always proudly said that he was a "little angel". He thought, angels are good, and he was happy to be his "little angel".

Grandma always asked the cook to cook a lot of delicious food. He was used to the food made by the cook in Paris, especially desserts. He could eat a whole plate of macarons!But mom won't let him eat too many desserts, alas!Mom said that he had to grow up to eat more desserts because his stomach was too small to fit so much food.Mom was right!A few times he was greedy and ate a little too much, and as a result, his belly was swollen and uncomfortable, and he didn't sleep well for half the night.

He also likes to ride a horse. Sheldon is not very good at riding a horse, but Doug, his uncle's black slave, is very good at riding a horse. Sometimes his uncle will take him out for a ride, but his mother is always worried that he will fall off the horse. quarrel.Mom's temper is not very good.

Savannah has cousins ​​too, but he doesn't understand much of their language, so he doesn't like to hang out with them.

And Damian, a little black slave, can't spell words. Mom said let Damian learn English with him and treat Damian like a friend.He didn't really understand what "slave" meant. Several times he saw other people's housekeepers smoking slaves, which really frightened him.

In short, everything in America is different from Paris, even the weather is different. Savannah is much warmer and the winter is not very cold, which he thinks is very good.

Grandmother took him out for a visit, and he didn't like one of the thin ladies, who asked what would happen if Josephine's new husband didn't like Victor. Who wouldn't love such a cute little baby?

After returning home, he figured out what his mother's "new husband" meant, and immediately ran to ask his mother if he would have a new father.Mom held him and laughed for a while, but then she said, "My poor baby".What does that mean?

He doesn't understand.

Josephine's trouble was that she didn't have many suitors, at least not as many as outsiders imagined, and it was almost the same in Paris.She didn't understand what a man was thinking.

Hearing her question, Charles laughed for a long time before saying, "That's because you are so beautiful. Men always think that you will have a great suitor, so they dare not pursue you."

"Is that so?" She pondered that this didn't seem to be the most reasonable explanation, "I thought men would be very confident."

"That's right, my dear sister, men are very confident, but when facing an extremely powerful man or a beautiful woman, they are not so confident."

"There are many beautiful women."

"But you also see that most of the beautiful women are very timid, like our Aunt Pauline, although she is not as beautiful as Aunt Eulalie. If a beautiful woman does not understand how powerful her beauty is. The ability of her will be swayed by the first man who finds her, and she will wither prematurely. Do you understand what I mean?"

Josephine nodded lightly, "Understood. A beautiful woman should have enough family background and financial resources to protect herself, am I right?"

"Yes. There are indeed many beautiful women in this world, but the fate of beauties is often not very good."

"So, you have the power—" She frowned slightly, and there was a faint sadness on her face, which made people want to stand up and protect her. "The bad thing is, how are women going to have power?"

"You can only rely on your father and brother. In the future, it will be your son, so you have to educate your son well. You may not be able to rely on your husband. He may die very early."

"Don't say that about Henry."

"So his name is Henry, and I thought he never existed."

She was quite surprised, "You—you—do you and your parents think so?"

"Papa never met your husband, and if it hadn't been for the Hastings family, he would have thought you were the bastard of some libertine. You were always a bold girl."

"I'm very brave, but not that stupid." Bastards don't sound good no matter which country they come from. People in the Middle Ages may not care much about this, such as the great illegitimate son in the Renaissance. In fact, in this era , Leonardo da Vinci's reputation is not too loud.

"Fortunately Victor was a sweet kid."

Josephine patted him on the arm, "Don't say that. Children are very sensitive, don't say that in front of him."

"I love your son as much as I love you. If I don't have a son in the future, I will leave all my property to him."

Josephine laughed all of a sudden, "Your property? Do you have any property?"

"Not now, not necessarily in the future."

"Papa's worried you'll marry a Northern girl when you go to Washington. But I think if you're not married by thirty, he'll marry any woman you want."

"I haven't made up my mind on what kind of congressman I'm going to be. I might run away in a few days, and my father will be so angry." Charles said lazily.

Josephine thought that her brother could be said to be a typical southern son. He didn't distinguish between grains and grains, but his body was diligent. There were no young masters in the south who knew how to ride a horse, even the weakest ones had to learn how to ride a horse.Young men in their twenties are mostly interested in eating, drinking and having fun, and most of them have no ambitions. It is indeed too difficult for him to learn to be a politician now.

The main purpose of returning to China this time is to transfer the family’s property before the civil war, so as to prevent the parents from going to Scarlett for money after the end of the civil war. It was really hard supporting a large family, including two aunts in Charleston.

She hasn't figured it out until now. The southern states seem to be in a good state of prosperity. The slave owners are rich and leisurely. The slaves are working non-stop on large and small plantations and farms. Charleston and Savannah have a weekly trip European cargo ships transporting cotton and tobacco.There are indeed class conflicts between slave owners and slaves, but they did not occur in these years, but after the slave trade. Now it has a history of more than a hundred years. Why did the class conflicts suddenly become serious to the north and the south? Fang must fight a war with heavy casualties to solve it?

The textbooks say that the focus of conflict in the American Civil War was slavery, but in fact, the northern states have not demanded that the southern states immediately abolish slavery. That Mr. Lincoln is not yet the president of the United States, and according to some of his speeches, Mr. Lincoln is not As many people think, he was a progressive abolitionist, and his racial discrimination was very serious, so why was President Lincoln portrayed as the great savior of black people?

Perhaps because the U.S. government needs to set up a "model", and this model is the most famous president who died by assassination—and the first president who died by assassination—it is equivalent to adding a halo.

The tragic president who died of political assassination, the justice rider who liberated the black slaves, and the symbol of the free flag of a free country are really perfect.

The southern states are not worried about war now because the previous presidents were all Democrats. The political inclination of the Democratic Party is biased towards the big southern landowners. Now everyone has never thought that this country will elect a Republican president one day.And it wasn't until Lincoln was elected that the South began to seriously consider war.

So if she talks about war now, no one will take it seriously.

Her plan of borrowing money was not taken seriously by her father and brother. They thought that she would just keep the inheritance of the unfortunate Hastings, and the Robillards could fully support her.well!It's really hard to do something!Don't father and brother care about her?On the contrary, they care about her and love her, but think that when the sky falls, there will be a man to support her, and a woman doesn't need to worry about it, she just needs to look good and find a new husband.

Well, at least she has some time until Lincoln officially takes office.

Mr. Darcy could be regarded as a sentimental person, and sent someone to bring her flowers every few days.The red roses planted in the greenhouse are tacky and gorgeous, and they are in full bloom, with a big bunch.

The handwriting is also very beautiful, strong and powerful, written on pink and white cardboard, inviting her to have dinner at the restaurant.

Women from upper-class families in this era cannot eat in a restaurant alone with men, they must have a companion.If a man wants to invite a potential marriage partner to dinner, he must invite her companion, in Josephine's case, his mother, and Leonardo Darcy must invite Robilla. Mrs. De invited together.

Later generations say "free love", sensible parents will try their best to let unmarried young people date alone instead of following.The advantage of taking a mother on a date in this era is that you can check the social skills of possible marriage partners by the way, and no one thinks there is any problem.

The reason why Emile dislikes Darcy is that he was born with misfortune, first his parents and then his wife and children. He is an "unlucky" person, or a "cursed person".

In appearance, however, Mr. Darcy was impeccable: tall, not as tall as Louis Mayville, but well over six feet tall.He has a strong body, but not stout, and he is the athletic type of the southern seaside aristocrats who are keen on outdoor sports.

She looks very good, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a pair of gray-blue eyes. She is the prettiest of the three candidates, so even though Emile doesn't like him, Josephine will still agree to his dinner invitation.

The author has something to say:

* There are several American presidents who died in the assassination, and several attempted ones, the most famous ones are Lincoln and Kennedy.It is the most dangerous profession in the world.

*Lincoln's 1862 presidency speech to a committee of free blacks, excerpted below: "Your race, I think, is suffering the greatest abuses ever suffered by any people. But even when you are no longer slaves, you are still far from Far from being on an equal footing with the Caucasians, many of the benefits enjoyed by other races are beyond your reach.

. . . we whites do not like you free niggers to live with us. . . for the sake of your race you should sacrifice a little of your present comforts, and in this respect be as noble as the whites.It is a lifetime of pleasure to do something to improve the conditions of those who are tortured by human slavery. "

The purpose of this conversation was to persuade free blacks to leave the United States to live in a new colony established in Central America. At that time, Lincoln planned to establish a colony in the former Spanish colony of New Granada, intending to move a large number of free blacks to settle there.