Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

Josephine doesn't seem to be moved by Butler's love, which is also easy to understand. She has seen too many courteous men and takes it for granted. Beauty is confident and proud, and her way of thinking is "no one will Don't love me" and "If anyone doesn't love me, the world has gone wrong".

If it weren't for Josephine being his wife, he might have sympathized with Butler.Butler isn't even his "opponent."He wasn't worried that Butler would snatch Josephine away. This kind of thing would only be possible if a woman was also attracted to him. He couldn't imagine the possibility of Josephine abandoning him and fleeing into Butler's arms, but a man, Possible dangers must be resolved in advance.

He decided to go back to China to deal with some matters, arrange manpower, and check the business.

When the war broke out, many businesses would inevitably be affected. He used to let his domestic partners or managers handle it. Now that the war has been going on for more than a year, some problems have accumulated and he has to go back to deal with them.

It is not easy to go back to the southern states now, but it is not difficult at all to go back to Boston or New York. Passenger ships from Europe to Boston are still navigating normally.

If Josephine's seasickness wasn't so scary, he wanted to take Josephine and Cynthia back together, but now he decided to go back alone, leaving his wife and daughter in France.

Charles also went back together to deal with things at home.

Emile did not want her son to go back.There is no problem for the son-in-law to go back. The Tarent family does not need and cannot go to the front line. She is very worried that her son will get hot-headed and join the army as soon as he returns. She asked Charles to swear that he would never secretly go to join the southern army, so she sent him worried. on board.

"Why does he have to go back? Even if all the black slaves on the farm run away, even if the house is gone, they are all things outside of him. As long as he is still there, he can always make so much money in the future. I am really worried that something will happen to him .”

"He's not a kid anymore, he knows what he's doing." Josephine was also worried, after all, it's hard to say something like "sense of honor".

John was conflicted.On the one hand, he doesn't want his son to really join the army, but on the other hand, if Charles really joins the army, he will feel very proud.

He wasn't worried that Philip would get dizzy and join the army.Rich people use donations to avoid going to the front line. This should be a common practice of rich people.When the Civil War first began, Southern gentry boys joined the army to defend the interests of the South, and because no one thought the South would lose, but now, anyone with a little analytical ability could see that the war was not going to end anytime soon.

So it would be "stupid" for Charles to join the Confederate Army now.

A month and a half later, the letter from Philip and Charles arrived in Paris, and all was well, and arrived in Boston smoothly.Philip told Charles to wait a few days while he got someone to take him back to Savannah.Philip himself would look up the business.

Charles said that a large number of blacks had poured into northern cities, especially in Washington DC. Wherever the northern army went, they immediately and unconditionally liberated black slaves and abolished local slavery.Those blacks left the plantations and farms, ran north, and then responded to the call of the northern army, took up guns to join the army, and turned to fight against their original masters.

There were teams of "niggers" in the Northern Army, and there was even a special black unit.What a terrible thing!

Josephine thought that her brother, the young master of a southern slave owner's family, really didn't have any political awareness.

In Philip's letter to her, he wrote that he missed her and little Cynthia. He will deal with business matters as soon as possible, and he will be able to leave the United States by the end of September at the latest.

Letters from the two were sent to Paris in an endless stream. At the end of July, John again received letters from his three younger sisters who were forwarded via New York.

Pauline said that Kelly had gone to the front, but had not fought two battles before coming home wounded, with a broken leg and a limp, but fortunately no more serious injuries.

Eulalie's husband, Henry, was very unfortunate and died in Richmond.

Ellen's husband, Gerald, was too old for the army, so he had to stay at Tara and drink all day.

Scarlett gave birth to a boy named Wade Hamilton, she went to Atlanta to live with her husband's sister Melanie and aunt Miss Pitty, Ellen tried to send food to Scarlett from home, but the food was getting worse Less, not even a lot of paper to write letters.

Charles returned to Savannah and found the Robillard house in good order with no serious damage.Hei Momo stayed at home all the time, but there was no food at home, so Hei Momo had to use some tableware that had not been used for a long time to exchange for flour or bread. Seeing the young master coming home, she cried and said that luckily the master, wife and young lady were all there. Europe, otherwise this day will not be able to survive.

All the black slaves on the farm ran away. The rice in the field was harvested last year, but it was piled up in the granary and could not be transported out. Later, when the northern army came, the granary was robbed.He hired a few blacks who didn't go to the north, and finally collected a few bags of rice in the granary, and sent them back to the black mother.

The safe at home was fine, so I took some gold out and sent it to the three aunts' homes.It's just that at this time, prices in the lower south are soaring, and gold does not depreciate, but every family has no surplus food.Finally, he met Butler, who brought him a lot of wheat flour and canned food. He divided the food into four portions and sent them to the three aunts' homes.

Almost all the black slaves from the three aunts' families ran away, and the aunts had to cook and do housework by themselves, which was unimaginable two years ago. How could it be possible for the daughter of the Robillard family to cook by herself?

Charles' final letter arrived in Paris at the end of August, stating his decision to enlist in the Confederate Army.

When Emile saw this sentence, he yelled and collapsed on the sofa, "My Charles!" as if he had seen the tragic death of his son on the battlefield.

Josephine hurriedly took the letter, read it quickly, and then handed the letter to her father, "Charles has joined the army."

John was in a tangled mood, worried that something would happen to his son.

Josephine wrote to Philip asking him to try to get in touch with Charles.

Philip wrote back and said he would do his best.

Josephine wrote again asking when he would come back, and Philip wrote back saying that he would still leave at the end of September as the previous return date, and attached the name of the ship that had already bought the ticket: Polaris.

But at the end of October, a bad news came from the shipping company: the Polaris sank!

Josephine was very calm, and first sent Sheldon to the shipping company to check the passenger list. Two weeks later, the New York shipping company sent back the passenger list, and Mr. Talent had indeed boarded the ship.The Polaris did not arrive when it was supposed to go to Europe, and the shipping company immediately sent a ship along the route to find it, and at the same time asked the New York shipping company to send back the list of passengers who boarded the ship.

Then, at the end of November, a letter from old Mrs. Talent arrived, asking her to take Cynthia home. Philip died at sea without a body.

Philip's elder brother Stanley said in the letter that his mother did not apply for Philip's death certificate. Legally speaking, Philip is still alive and considered "missing", because the law requires that "you must see the person when you are alive, and you must see the corpse when you are dead." It takes years to declare death.He will help his sister-in-law manage the family property, and ask her not to rush back home, after all, Cynthia is too young.

Little brother Ryan wrote very sharply, saying that if she didn't come back, all the family property would be taken away by Stanley.

The letters from the two younger sisters, Annabelle and Margaret, are full of condolences and miss for their eldest brother, and they also ask their sister-in-law to bring their little niece back at an appropriate time.

Josephine was distraught.

Of course she cared about the family property, those would belong to Cynthia in the future, and she couldn't let others rob Cynthia's property.But her health is really bad, seasickness is so severe, every time she crosses the ocean, she suffers from the boss.

Cynthia is also too young, I don't know if the child can bear it for half a month or even three weeks on the boat.

Emile couldn't make up her mind at all, she hugged Cynthia and cried all day long, lamenting her daughter's life, and lamenting that Cynthia lost her father without ever seeing her father.

John thought that Josephine would still go back, but not until the spring, when Cynthia would be nearly two years old, and she would be able to persist if she wanted to.

He wrote to old Mrs. Tarent that Josephine was so sad that she was sick and bedridden.Cynthia is lively and lovely, but too young for a long boat ride.

John quickly went to New York, on the one hand, to see what was going on with the Tarent family. The young parents died in a shipwreck, and the only daughter was still very young. The issue of property inheritance alone would definitely make relatives popular on the other hand, he wanted to inquire about Charles.

Josephine wasn't complaining all the time.

No matter what means of transportation, there are risks, but if you don’t see anyone, you don’t go out. It’s time to go out or go out.The Titanic has not yet come out, but it is impossible that there have never been shipwrecks before the Titanic, not only there, but also many.

Philip is not bad, he is really good as a husband, impeccable.He has a good figure, a strong physique, and a gentle temperament.She doesn't care whether outsiders are gentle or not, as long as she is gentle to her.This is the cultivation of a gentleman, everything about him is decent, fully in line with the standards of a gentleman, but maybe because it is too standard, he is not very passionate.

The honeymoon trip was perfect. They spent nearly a year in Italy and fully experienced the scenery and customs of all parts of Italy.Traveling with good money is very happy. What you want is just a word. A rich husband guarantees that there is no upper limit for her spending, and it is impossible to complain that traveling costs too much. One of the principles of a gentleman is that a man should make good money to provide The best living standard for wife and children.

In this era, prices are not high in any country. When the U.S. dollar is exchanged for British pounds in Europe, the purchasing power is still strong. If you don’t buy luxury goods, the biggest cost of traveling for a year is the hotel fee. It doesn’t cost much to eat, train tickets Not expensive, servant salaries are negligible.

Perfect, but lacking the passion of love.

Becoming a widow again is out of her control, she did cry sincerely when she first received the bad news, but more seems to lament why it is so difficult for her to find a reliable and stable husband, not for Philip wept.

In this way, she is indeed a bit ruthless.

Emile didn't dare to ask her how she felt, for fear of making her sad and cry, but it was fine, in order to prevent her mother from caring about her mental state, she pretended to be sad from time to time, lying on the bed for a whole day.