Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

Emile agreed very much: "She will definitely regret it."

The ports of Charleston and Savannah were blocked, which meant that the lower south could not send letters to the European continent. John was very anxious about the three younger sisters, worried that they would be affected by the war.

Sending letters to Boston is no problem, old Mrs. Tarent's letters arrive every week, and as far as war is concerned, the Northern Army is not doing very well at the moment, and they are always losing.John felt complacent again, thinking that it wouldn't be long before the Confederate army would be able to drive the Yankees past Richmond and back to Washington.

Philip didn't take it seriously, but it was a fact that the northern army was retreating steadily, so he could only choose to shut up.

Josephine is strangely confident in the northern army, thinking that the south will not last for a few years.

"How many years will it last?" Philip asked strangely.

"—Maybe. I know Lincoln can't surrender. He can only hold on."

"You're right, he can only persevere, otherwise he will become a sinner who split the country." Philip also saw clearly that people in high positions have too much involuntary control. As the president, he considers The problem is at the national level, it has to be.

"Don't you want to go back?"

"Go back?" He asked strangely: "Didn't you agree that we would go to Spain and Italy after you gave birth? Why did you suddenly ask me if I wanted to go back?"

"It would be boring if you stayed in Paris all the time."

"How can you be bored? I'm just waiting for you to give birth, but you, you don't go out very much, you must be bored."

"Oh! It's very boring. I also want to give birth to him earlier. I hope he is an obedient and good boy."

As her due date approached, Josephine's legs swelled and her temper turned bad.He didn't want to quarrel with her, although he knew that she was making trouble unreasonably because she was unwell, so as long as Josephine showed that she wanted to get angry, he would tactfully change the subject.

Emile very euphemistically asked him to be considerate of a pregnant woman's bad temper.

Of course he can be considerate, and he feels that he is doing a good job.

When the due date came, Josephine's belly didn't move.

Emile was a little anxious.After a few days, John also began to worry.

Philip sent for the obstetrician every morning, and the doctor said a week's delay was normal, but a ten-day delay might not be so good.

Fortunately, just a week after the due date, Josephine began to go into labor early this morning.

Because I had already given birth to a child, the second production process went smoothly.

A special delivery room was prepared downstairs, and Emile watched the time of labor pains, and asked the servant to send Josephine to the delivery room.She kept Philip from the delivery room, saying men should not be in the delivery room.She didn't think that men shouldn't accompany their wives to give birth, but that women had a bloody smell when giving birth, and they would sweat profusely, and no matter how beautiful a beauty was, they would not look good.She would rather Philip remembered only Josephine's beautiful face than the distorted face she had had when she had given birth.

Josephine didn't know what her mother thought. She just felt that a man couldn't help her have a baby, and it was useless to have him around, and she might faint from the blood!

Philip waited anxiously outside the door of the delivery room, walking up and down all the time, grinding away a layer of the floor.

John was also very anxious, but he still pretended to be calm, saying that which woman didn't have a few children, so he had to drag his son-in-law to play chess, but the chess skills of both of them dropped drastically at this time, it was terrible, and they didn't take the wrong number of moves. People care.

Philip asked stupidly why Josephine didn't yell. He heard that women always cry when they give birth to children, which is very scary.John couldn't answer at all.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, there was a faint cry of a newborn.

Philip was in the corridor at this time, and he was stunned when he heard the baby crying.

Manny quickly opened the door and came out with a smile all over her face, "Congratulations, sir, the wife has given birth to a young lady."

is a girl.

Philip was still stunned.

John slapped him on the shoulder suddenly, "Go and see her soon."

Only then did he come to his senses, and hurried into the delivery room.

There was a strong smell of blood in the delivery room.

"Josephine," he said softly, as if afraid to startle the exhausted woman on the bed.

Josephine was tired and sleepy, and almost fell asleep with her eyes closed.

Emile had asked the maid to change her pajamas and wash her face.Her long blond hair hung wet on the pillow.

The maid was busy opening the window for ventilation, the smell of blood in the room was too strong.

The maid took away the blood-stained sheets, and the smell in the room got better.

"Josephine." He whispered her name, held her hand, and kissed the back of her hand.

She said in a daze, "Is it a boy?"

"It's a girl."

Emile put a small swaddling baby beside her, he looked curiously at the little baby with a trace of blood on its face, so small, wrinkled, not good-looking at all, like a little monkey.

"Girls..." Josephine licked her lips, "Do you like girls?"

"I like it, I like it very much."

"Let me sleep. I want to sleep." Her voice trailed off, lower and lower.

Emile picked up the child again, and said to the maid: "Go and prepare warm water for the young lady to take a bath, Philip."

He didn't seem to understand what Emile was calling him to do.

"Let her rest."

Suddenly, he stood up.

But leaned over and pressed a soft kiss on her forehead, "Thank you, my love."

The baby is so small.

Philip marveled, and took turns hugging the child carefully with Charles.

his children.

To say that before today, he didn't have any specific concept of his own child. When he met Victor, Victor was already a 5-year-old boy. Why is my daughter so small!so soft!

He could hardly hold her.

Emile washed little Cynthia's body and face, and rewrapped her in a clean swaddle.The little baby's face was clean now, it was so small, not even bigger than his fist.

A soft, small, extremely fragile little thing.

There is a little thinning hair, blond, thin and soft hair.

Small nose, small mouth, small ears, everything is small.

He suddenly felt a sense of responsibility as a father, such a little guy is so cute!As soon as he thought that this little guy would completely trust him and rely on him in the future, he clearly realized the responsibility on his shoulders.

Little Cynthia fell asleep, and slept for a short time, and soon woke up, crying, and the crying changed from weak at birth to loud. He was startled at first, and asked her stupidly why she was crying.

Emile smiled and said, "She's hungry. But it's best to give her some water now." She called the maid and fed the newborn some water with a dropper.

The servants were busy all the time, and the maid changed Josephine's nightdress and bed sheets. She was still sleeping, but she was sweating. Emile said that Josephine didn't like sweating the most, and she slept on the sweaty sheets. It is not good for the mother's health.

The washerwoman washed several sheets.

The servant went to fetch the nurse.

The doctor who delivered the baby sent her back.

A newborn baby does not need to be breastfed immediately. It is best to wait until he starts to defecate before starting to breastfeed.

But there is no need to tell the father of the child, Emile has arranged the raising of the child in an orderly manner.

Philip went to the delivery room after dinner. Josephine was still awake, and most of the smell in the room had dissipated. Now the smell of blood was not so strong, and some flowers were placed.

He sat by the bed for almost an hour, then got sleepy and went back to the upstairs bedroom to sleep.

Sleeping until early in the morning, the maid knocked on the door and said that his wife had woken up and wanted to see him.

Josephine asked for water to take a shower and washed her hair, and was asking the maid to dry her hair.

When Philip came downstairs some food had just been cooked for the wife in the kitchen, and the wife was hungry.

Josephine felt that she was so hungry that she could eat a lamb, so she asked for a leg of lamb, but she couldn't eat it after a few bites.

"I'm hungry." She looked up at him, "Do you want something to eat?"

"How are you?"

"Should be fine. Have you seen the baby?"

"I've seen it, she's fine."

He looked at her carefully: there seemed to be no difference, she was still extremely beautiful, but her expression was a little haggard, but this did not damage her beauty, but only made her look weaker and needed his protection.

"Having a baby is tiring. I think it will be a few years before I think about having a baby."

He didn't speak.He wants a boy so that he can inherit the family property in the future, but a girl is also very good, and a girl can also inherit the family property. Besides, they are still young, and there will be other children in the future.

After a while, he replied, "Let's not talk about that now. I only care about you. Are you okay? I was so worried yesterday, just about you...or the child."

He forced a smile.

It is not an accident that both mother and child die after giving birth. On the contrary, it is very common. He usually doesn't pay attention to these news, but it's not like he doesn't know anything about it.Like John said, what woman doesn't have a few children?But no one would be happy to have a child and die.

well!Thinking about it this way, he felt extremely distressed, and he didn't want her to keep having children.

"I think I'm fine. Tomorrow night, oh, I can go back tonight. I have the maid prepare a guest room for you, and you are going to stay in the guest room for a few weeks."

Philip was shocked, "What?"

She frowned, "What? Didn't I tell you before? My temper will not be very good after the baby is born. It's best to separate rooms for a few weeks."

He quickly recalled, "I don't remember." Because the expected date of delivery was approaching, the intimate daily life between them had stopped for almost two months, and he thought that after giving birth, the happy time before would be restored soon.

"It's just a few weeks. You can't bear it all these weeks, right?" She asked calmly, her tone very calm.

He said reluctantly, "Well, if you wish."