Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

He held a bouquet of white camellias in one hand, and supported the wooden ladder with the other, smiling, "Josephine."

Hey!Although he behaves like an 18-year-old reckless boy, but his actual age is 40 years old, he is not annoying, it just makes people feel very happy.

— After all, who doesn't like a lover who can climb a wooden ladder over a wall?

"Red." She rushed to the window so cheerfully that Rhett yelled "be careful".

"So you've been through other girls' windows like this before?" she said with a smile.

"Maybe it's been turned over a few times."

Understand, what young handsome boy doesn't have a crush on a girl?Rhett has never been a good boy, and it is not uncommon to climb over the wall to see the girl he likes.Moreover, as we all know, there are many children in the military academy who cannot be controlled by their families and have to be sent to the military academy, hoping that they can learn self-discipline and "obey the rules".

"If you want, I can play the guitar for you under the window. My singing voice may not be very good, but my sincere heart is hot." Rhett handed her the bouquet, "For you, mylove .”

Josephine took the bouquet and looked downstairs, "Aren't you going to fall? I won't allow you to crawl into my room."

"I'm a person who went to West Point Military Academy, and this thing doesn't bother me." He held his head high, "Are you coming? I can sneak you away. Where do you want to go?"

"I don't know. I don't want to go down the wooden ladder."

"What do you think we can chat like this?"

"This is special." Josephine dragged the wooden stool in front of the dressing table and sat down, "Don't you have anything to prepare?"

"No. I left the wedding to my mother, and she was very happy, and I didn't want to spoil it. And Mrs. Robillard, I think she would be very happy to prepare for your wedding."

"My mother said it was a pity that I didn't get married three times in Savannah."

"Yes, yes." Mothers need a wedding to satisfy their vanity, and that's not a big deal.

Old Mrs. Butler kept her attitude very low, and she followed Emile's advice in everything. Of the two mothers, Mrs. Robillard was the dominant one, and she decided everything about the wedding.The wedding preparations went smoothly and quickly, and the bride and groom did not need to worry at all.

"How are you? Are you afraid of marriage?"

"Me?" Rhett asked in surprise: "Why am I afraid of getting married? On the contrary, if you allow me, I can take you to church to get married right now. But you, you have been in a bad mood these days, and you finally figured out Don't you want to get married again?"

Josephine smiled, "Probably so."

Rhett suddenly frowned sadly, "That's terrible! I shouldn't have asked you, so I can assume that you haven't repented—it's too late for you to repent now, and I can't accept it."

Josephine just smiled.

Rhett read the words and felt that she was too calm.She has never been a woman who is full of emotions and anger. She is completely two extremes with the simple and straightforward Scarlett. Whatever Scarlet thinks in her heart, she will show it on her face. She doesn't know how to hide herself. Will purposely annoy Scarlett, just to see her shy and embarrassed, and then pissed off.Oh, Josephine, Josephine is different, even a "smart person" like him who thinks he can read other people's minds can't quite understand her.

She has something on her mind, yes, but what?

Maybe, really regret agreeing to marry him?

He became troubled, but his face was still happy, "Come on, I'll take you out to play and go shopping, what do you think? We still have time to go to New York. What do you want? A bigger diamond ring? More How many gems? As long as you want, I will satisfy you."

"You are so simple, do you think women can always be satisfied with jewelry?"

"Isn't it? Then tell me, what do you want?"

"—It's not very clear. I want money, and money is everything."

"You are already rich. You are richer than most women in this country, and you are richer than most men."

"Yes."

"What do you want so much money for? Scarlett wants money because she wants to revive Tara; I want money because I have no reputation and can only use money to satisfy my vanity. You Yes, my love? What is money to you?"

"It's...it's freedom, the freedom to do whatever you want."

Rhett pondered: Yes, she can indeed be as free as possible.This society belongs to men, especially rich men. It is difficult for women to live well, but rich women live much better. He has long understood this truth.

He tried his best and gave her half of his property, just to knock her unconscious with money.Don't you love money?As it happens, I still have some money.He thought so, and he did so.But Josephine didn't seem too happy, at least not in the kind of complete meekness.

On the surface, she is gentle, and most of the time she will speak according to what he wants, but if you think about it carefully, she does obey him on trivial matters, but she never listens to some principled issues. concession.

Of course, if she was a woman who had no brains and only knew how to obey, she would lose that layer of mystery.There are not many beautiful women. She is indeed beautiful. Beauty brings her many conveniences, but beauty does not bring her beautiful love.He believed that her ex-husbands also noticed this, rather than just being attracted by her beauty.

"Yes, freedom... My dear, please rest assured that your freedom will not be less. My money is your money. You don't need to tell me what you want to do. You can do it as long as you want. I I promise to respect you completely," he said tactfully.

Josephine laughed again, "You mean to allow me to do what I want by saying these few words, am I right?"

He immediately apologized, "It's my fault, I said something wrong, please forgive me."

"I forgive you. Now, you go, you are always here, mother will say that you are too nonsense." How could Emile not know that he is here?It's just turning a blind eye.

He was very obedient, "Okay, then I'll go down first. If you want to go out, you can come to my place, and I will take you for a walk in the suburbs."

Emile pretended not to know that Rhett moved the ladder to meet Josephine.Unruly, but what's the big deal?Captain Butler was an unconventional man, she already knew that.

Eulalie has been nagging that Rhett Butler, who has a bad reputation, is not worthy of marrying Josephine, and that his brother and sister-in-law should not agree to the marriage contract; how could Josephine be deceived?After all, she is still too young and easily deceived by men.

Emile does not intend to cancel the wedding according to Eulalie's suggestion.Rhett did not have a good reputation, but Josephine agreed to the marriage proposal. She just wanted to make her daughter happy. If Rhett could make Josephine happy, she could tolerate Rhett.

Besides, Rhett was rich, handsome, and submissive to Josephine, and she couldn't think of anyone who would be a better husband for Josephine--perhaps only the unfortunate Philip Talent. Well, but Philip is dead.

Ugh!

She is very distressed about her daughter's misfortune, as long as someone can make her daughter happy, she has no objection.

Besides, the old Mrs. Butler's attitude can be said to be very low, she praised her everywhere, praised her good vision, beautiful work, and thoughtful thinking. Emile fully enjoyed the wonderful taste of being flattered.

Emile also noticed that her daughter was not in a good mood recently, but she thought that Josephine was just tired of the tedious wedding ceremony.She comforted Josephine that the wedding ceremony would be very simple, she only needed to walk the red carpet, and she didn't need to attend the wedding banquet.The wedding banquet was a time for the guests to feast anyway, so it was not a big problem if the bride didn't attend, and Rhett would be fine with socializing.

Josephine was fine with that.

As the wedding day drew closer, Josephine's anxiety grew.

She has a locked silver box in her dressing table, and there are several letters in it. In the past week, she will receive a letter every morning. After reading the letter, she will lock the letter in the silver box.

She does not go out, does not let the children go out, and writes to Rhett, asking him to prepare to go to Europe for honeymoon, and they will take the children to Europe together; It is easy to do business in the Far East, and with Rhett's mind, he can make a fortune.

She also sent Percy out to New York to withdraw a large sum of cash and all the gold to bring back to Savannah.

She wrote letters to her parents and elder brother, and planned to give them to them after the wedding. In the letter, she arranged things for the next few years. She planned to stay in Europe and never return to the United States.

Rhett wrote back asking how she ever wanted to go to the Far East, and if it was just for fun, they could play for years until she got tired of it.

Did he guess what she was trying to avoid, what or who?There is always someone, no matter what happens, there must always be "someone".She suddenly wanted to hide in the far east, which showed that this person frightened her.

Who will it be?

Rhett Butler was thinking hard and couldn't figure it out.

He thought about solving this matter as soon as possible, and he could always find out what she was afraid of, as long as... as long as they got married, he would put all his attention on it.

It's just that he didn't expect that the matter was more serious than he imagined, and the "threat" came sooner than he imagined.

wedding day.

Before the wedding ceremony, an angry Scarlet went to Josephine to "settle accounts".Rhett went to Josephine as soon as he noticed that Scarlett was not in the auditorium.

He expected Scarlett to feel humiliated and lose her temper, and Josephine's calmness was also expected to him. He was not worried about Josephine. She could handle it well.He just didn't expect Scarlett to smash his head with something in a fit of rage, regardless of her manners.

And he was clutching the back of his head and screaming for pain, when he heard someone ask, "Josephine, are you unhappy to see me?"

Rhett watched Josephine's face change drastically, and her expression was terrified, "You, what are you...you're still alive!"

The man was tall and handsome, with a strong body and a mellow voice, "I'm still alive. My dear wife, my only love, what? Are you scared?"

Josephine clung to the dress, it was the wedding dress he made for her, blue embroidered Chinese satin, and Parisian tulle as thin as onion wings, she should be the most beautiful bride in the world, but now, she Her pale face made her red lips even more beautiful.

"Why didn't you die?!" she yelled, "You deserve to go to hell!"

The author has something to say: I finally wrote it, hehe