Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

"Don't think so," Charles said with a serious face, "You are Josephine's husband now, and your responsibility is your wife and children, not some damn war!"

Philip lowered his head and smiled, "It's indeed a 'damned war'!"

This damn war will greatly affect his income. Although he knew that the war was inevitable a few months ago, and he has tried his best to arrange domestic funds and business, it will always be greatly affected, which makes him extremely unhappy. Joy.If he stayed in Boston, it wouldn't be his turn to go to the front line, but donations and the like are indispensable, and wealthy families will always be targeted. Don't donate, he has to donate whether he is in the country or not.

So once a war breaks out, not only will the business be affected, but the money will be much less than before, and donations will be required.When Josephine heard this, she was very unhappy, and muttered that the money should have belonged to her, but what happened?Now the mother's family wants to donate to the Confederacy, and the husband's family wants to donate to the Northern Federation. Isn't this a joke? !

Philip also thought it was absurd, but it was reality.

"Those should be my money." Josephine was so angry.If you only have $1 and donate $1000, she thinks it’s nothing; but if you have $100 million and need to donate $10, that’s a lot of money!

"Don't get annoyed about money." Philip said lightly: "Money has to be spent, either here or there. Now, your parents and elder brother have left that powder||powder keg, This can be regarded as fulfilling your wish. As for money, if you lose it, you can earn it again."

This man is really transparent and sensible. "I hope to have lots and lots of money."

"Just leave what will go to our eldest son for as much as you want."

"I like money, but I don't necessarily like spending it."

"Huh? Really?" Philip said amusedly, "But what's the point of earning money and not spending it?"

"I don't know. I like gems, but gems are always cold stones. Some are enough. You can't pay with gems when you encounter something terrible. People who don't know the goods think they are glass when they see gems!"

"Are you complaining that I don't give you enough 'glass'?"

"No! But if you want to give me jewelry, I will accept it happily."

He smiled and flicked her cheek, "I see."

In fact, she is not short of money. Philip is responsible for all household expenses. He gave her an annuity of 2 U.S. dollars on the second day of marriage. The purchasing power of the U.S. dollar is so high that a desperado in New York only needs 10 U.S. dollars to kill a person, 2 U.S. dollars She just can't use it up in daily life, not to mention that all her expenses are actually paid by her husband, she can actually save all of the 2 years' pension.

The weather in Paris is getting warmer day by day, and the Robillard family, who are far away in a foreign country, only pay attention to the tension in the United States from the newspapers, and most of their thoughts are still on Josephine.

Josephine is about to start preparing the baby room. The Terente house in Paris has only two floors and occupies a large area. The bedrooms are all on the second floor. Kedo's room is far away so that the children will not disturb the elder brother at night.It can't be too close to the master bedroom, and it must be separated by several rooms.

We also need to start recruiting nurses and nannies. The wives of rich families are not happy to breastfeed by themselves. They are all nurses who feed their children. One is not enough to recruit two.

The child has not yet been born, and several large boxes of baby clothes have been prepared, from infants to toddlers, enough to wear until 2 years old.

Uncle Charles personally went to the furniture store to pick out a crib for his nephew who was about to be born.

John gave her this year's annuity and gave her a villa outside Paris.That villa was where he and Emile lived when they were newly married in Paris, and now Emile's sister's family lived there.Philip and Charles took Victor to see the villa, and said that the villa is very good, just by the Seine River, but the aunt's family is a bit upset.My aunt has passed away, my two cousins ​​are married, and my uncle and two cousins ​​live in the villa.

Emile's family is a dilapidated earl. Because he was not a trusted confidant of Napoleon I, the emperor was suppressed after he ascended the throne. Gradually, only the title was left, and the fiefs were almost gone. Therefore, the daily economy was in distress. In the era of the last earl, they even received a decent dowry. not come out.Emile married to an American nouveau riche is considered a "marriage", and Heloise married a baron of the upstart, so she was considered a "marriage".

It's just that this baron was very careless, he ate up the little property of his wife's natal family, inherited the title of earl, and lived in his aunt's villa.

The eldest of the cousins ​​is 24 years old this year and not very advanced; the younger one is called Emil, who is 18 years old this year, unexpectedly handsome and soft, and can be called a beautiful boy, rather like Josephine's dear brother.

Emil has the same name as his aunt, which shows that Emile has a good relationship with his sister, and he also likes this little nephew the most, so he asked Charles to bring Emile to stay here for a while.

Josephine thought that her father's work was very interesting, probably because she wanted to get rid of this tasteless real estate and wanted Philip to sell it.For Emile's sake, he couldn't directly break face with Frank de Boulton.

Philip didn't care about such a villa, but there was no reason to lend it to relatives all the time. The Bolton family had lived in the villa for more than ten years. Heloise had passed away, and the Robillard family had no connection with the Bolton family. Basically gone.

"I don't care about Bolton. Even if you drive his family out, they can only rent a house. I don't care whether Bolton is dead or alive, but Emile is a little pitiful." Josephine said to this lazy man. The uncle who sits and eats mountains and sky has a bad impression. According to her, as long as a man is not stupid, he can always find a way to make money.Heloise didn't know why she was blind at the beginning, and fell in love with such a useless man.

"He should go to college. Family property and titles are not his share. He'd better have a job to support himself." Philip said fairly.

She also agreed, "It's time to go to college, and my father should be willing to pay for his tuition."

This topic will come to an end soon.

Victor lived at his grandmother's house during this period, and now there were only two of them in the house. Philip asked someone to decorate the roof terrace and set up a Turkish-style sheepskin tent. Spend time on the terrace.

Stained glass lamps and candles are hung under the roof of the tent; bunches of white roses are placed around the bottom of the tent, exuding the faint fragrance of roses.The bottom of the tent was covered with a thick Persian carpet, and there were many pillows of different sizes. Josephine leaned on the pillows leisurely.

Philip leaned in front of her, and she could touch his head with her hand.

The expected date of delivery is at the end of May and the beginning of June, and now it is the end of April. Her abdominal circumference is already considerable, and she has difficulty moving and is reluctant to move around.But in order to be able to give birth smoothly, I still walk in circles in the garden for an hour every day.Philip tried to walk around with her every day when he got home, and told her what had happened on the way, who was in the club, there were some interesting people in gentlemen's clubs, not many stupid ones, but there were still ridiculous ones.