Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

Girls like to read romance novels. It can be said that I have read several novels by Jane Austen countless times, as well as romance novels by other well-known and unknown authors.They didn't like Dickens very much, and found it bitter and bitter, not very "interesting".

Philip previously believed that sisters should not read romance novels full of fantasy, which would make them have unrealistic fantasies about their future husbands.The Tarent family lineage guaranteed their husbands to be rich, but not to be handsome or to love them deeply.

If you want to talk about the thing that the brothers are most worried about, it is that there will be someone who is not suitable to woo the younger sisters...

Girls are raised in deep boudoirs. In fact, the chance of meeting inappropriate men is very small, but it is impossible to completely eliminate them. The brothers are worried that the innocent sisters will be cheated by some slippery men.

A man who speaks better is more dangerous.

aha!Josephine finally knew why Philip had never said sweet words.

When she thought of Philip, she felt that the world was really unpredictable!Who wants to be a widow all the time?The widow is too restrained, she can't do this, she can't go that, she can wear whatever she wants at home, she doesn't need to wear mourning clothes, but she still has to pretend in front of the old Mrs. Tarent, and she can't do whatever she wants.

She wondered whether she should go to Europe. Marseille or Rome are good. To cultivate the artistic temperament of children, of course, go to the country with the strongest artistic atmosphere. Victor should also start to get familiar with him in a few years. The property of - oops!Thinking about it this way, time flies so fast!

How old is Victor?She thought in a trance that he was almost 9 years old and he was born in August.

A Leo boy.

Stanley Talent likes Victor very much, and of course regrets that Philip failed to have a boy with Josephine. In the future, Cynthia's husband must be strictly selected, otherwise the family property of the Talent family may have to change their surname.For this reason, he is willing to train Victor well. He is more assured that Victor will be in charge of the property of the Tarent family in the future. After all, Victor and Cynthia are half related by blood.

On the one hand, Josephine felt that Stanley had thought about it too early, but on the other hand, there was nothing wrong with making preparations in advance, but she was a little pitiful for Victor, who had endured too much at a young age that a child should not have to bear. burden.

She originally wanted to hand over Hastings' property to Philip, but her brother was not good at management, so that now, it was Ryan who was running the railway company.Ryan graduated last year and started taking over some of the family business.

After Philip inherited the inheritance, he set up a personal trust fund for his two younger brothers and two younger sisters to ensure that the younger brothers and sisters will have a good fortune in the future.The trust fund of the sisters is given after marriage, which is regarded as a dowry; Ryan’s trust fund can be obtained after graduating from college; Stanley’s trust fund is given after living past the age of 25. After Philip passed away the year before last, Stanley was not yet 25 years old.

Philip is a very smart and generous person, and he is also very confident. He thinks that he will make more money in the future by distributing his property to his younger siblings.

She asked Sheldon to bring money to Scarlett. At this time, she couldn't go to the bank and could only bring gold coins, so she couldn't bring too much, lest she reveal her wealth on the way and be killed halfway.But it can’t be too little, you have to bring $1000 anyway.The ratio of a gold coin to a dollar was different, and she couldn't figure out the exchange rate. After discussing with Stanley, she decided to bring gold directly.

The exchange rate of gold has always been quite stable, even in war zones. It is cast into 2-gram and 5-gram gold beads, which can be directly used as money.

I also thought about what Tara lacks most at this time. In fact, what Tara lacks is people who work in the fields. Tara doesn’t grow cotton anymore, but if she needs to raise chickens, vegetables, corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, what else will she eat?Poor, Scarlett only knew that corn and sweet potatoes were fed to pigs or black slaves on the plantation since she was a child. She never thought that one day she would eat these coarse grains to satisfy her hunger.

She admired Scarlett, but she couldn't do it.She had never been to the family farm, and she had never even seen how the black slaves did farm work. She would certainly not be able to raise chickens and grow corn.She is used to living with money and spending money on affairs, but in this situation——

It is not easy to live easily during the war, and only in a place as far away from the war zone as Boston can we continue to sing and dance.

It is also impossible for her to go to Tara to help Scarlett now. Her philosophy is still to spend money to do things. What the South lacks now is food.

Reid said in her last letter that Gerald refused to leave Tara, and Irish people would never leave their land. At that time, she laughed at Gerald’s hypocrisy: Didn’t he also leave his hometown in Ireland and come to the new world? ?

But thinking about it now, not only Gerald refused to leave Tara, but the three Scarlett sisters also refused to leave Tara. Tara was their property and could not be abandoned.This is a concept of "home", which can be said to be a complex that all people will have.

Homeland is hard to leave.

John has also been talking about going back to Savannah, and plans to go back after Charles' wedding. He is worried about the Robillard family's old house.

Isn't it just an old house?

The family's farm is only left with land, and it is uncertain whether the Robillard family can keep the farm land under the situation that the South is bound to lose the war.The title deed document of the land is kept by the landlord and the city government. The government agencies in Savannah were severely damaged, and most of the documents were burned when the government officials fled. The new post-war government may not recognize the previous title deed at all. .

The land deeds of the family are all there, but there is no guarantee that they will not become some waste paper, just like the currency and bonds issued by the South itself, worthless.

She talked to Stanley about this issue, and Stanley said that there was no good solution. At that time, it would depend on who is in the new city government of Savannah and what new land plan will be implemented. If it doesn’t work, it can only be bought back. .

Stanley can understand Mr. Robillard's idea of ​​"keeping the business". This is the general knowledge of the propertied class. Family property does not say that it is getting richer from generation to generation, at least it cannot be reduced, otherwise it will be a "prodigal son".

John left Savannah before the war, and it was very reasonable to go to France to visit his beloved daughter who was pregnant and gave birth. In this way, he would be criticized behind his back as a "deserter". Respect, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

I don't know if Rhett Butler's joining the army now can change the old Mr. Butler's attitude towards his family's disgrace.

Rhett sent another letter yesterday. This man is quite capable. He can get along well in the southern army and still have a way to send letters to the north.

He said that the experience of the West Point Military Academy has greatly helped him, and dropping out of school halfway will not affect his becoming an officer. After all, in the later stages of the war, officers with command experience almost died in battle. However, no experienced commander could avoid the steady retreat of the southern army.

By this time, the financial and human resources in the South were no longer sufficient to support the continuation.The Southern Army also has black soldiers, but unlike the North where there will be all-black troops, the Southern Army will disperse the few blacks and distribute them, otherwise, these black slaves will turn against the entire army.

His letter is full of the sadness of a landlord in the old days. He thought the South would be defeated, but seeing the decadent spirit with his own eyes, he still couldn't help being depressed.

He joked that he was not a staunch "fighter", and he couldn't explain why he wanted to join the Confederate Army.Now he is talking in detail about the day he took Scarlett and Melanie out of Atlanta. The Southern Army blew up the warehouse near the train station. There were piles of war materials in the warehouse. Food, weapons, etc. Confederate artillery, boots, blankets, etc., which the Confederate Army did not want to fall into the hands of the Northern Army, did not distribute food to the civilian population of Atlanta earlier.

He lamented how insignificant a "person" is in the torrent of the times, and he was shocked to realize that he was still a "Southern young master" in essence.

This letter didn't say how much he missed her, just some trivial matters at the front line, some of his inner thoughts, which seemed very serious.