[Gone with the Wind] Parallel Time and Space

Chapter1 Encounter

Those who knew the O'Hara family well throughout North Georgia's Clayton County knew Miss Scarlett O'Hara, the eldest daughter of the O'Hara family, as a lively girl.So lively.At the age of six, she was not like a girl like her two younger sisters Sue Allen and Karin or other girls, holding a doll and playing house and other games quietly, but like a boy Climbing up and down.With the Tarleton brothers, Stuart and Brent, she often climbed trees to catch cicadas, picked apples, played pirates, and made slingshots out of sticks and leather cords.The two Tarleton brothers enjoyed playing with little Scarlett very much, but to Scarlett, everyone is the same, she can be with other boys, even strangers, within three days - counting the beginning Pretend to be a lady's time to mingle.Because she is the only girl in the group of boys, Scarlett is the center of the group of boys.She likes this feeling, the feeling of being admired by all the stars.She hated playing with girls, especially her two younger sisters.In her opinion, Sue Ellen and Karin were simply boring.So even though she was always reprimanded by the black mother, she never had the slightest "repentance".Only when her dearest mother, Ellen, frowned at what she was doing, did she feel a little uncomfortable, but this little uncomfortable was thrown out the next day when she went out to play. Cloud Nine has gone.

On this day, however, little Scarlett did not mingle with her boys.Because they had pissed her off just now.Little Scarlett is very angry now. "The idiots, what a fool!" she cursed, sitting on a boulder by the Flint River.If Mammy saw it, she'd say, "Miss Scarlett, those words shouldn't come out of a lady's mouth. What would Miss Ellen say if she heard that?" But she didn't care, Mammy wasn't here, mother Not here, she is alone here now.She just chased away those idiot boys.Although Brent and Stuart wanted so badly to stay, they were forced to leave by her harsh reprimand.

Scarlett looked at her reflection in the water, she was very embarrassed, the braid that Mama Hei had braided in the morning was already very messy.The skin on the palm of my hand was scratched and it was hot.There are also marks on the skirt. "They are not gentlemen at all!" Little Scarlett pouted, looking annoyed.

When little Scarlett was thinking that when she saw Brent tomorrow, she would ignore him, expressing that she was angry with him, yes, and Stuart, they were in the same group, she heard a hearty laugh from a man .Scarlet frowned and stared back sharply.Rhett Butler was attracted by these emerald-like eyes, so beautiful, these eyes.The little person in front of him is just like a kitten who thinks he is fierce but is actually so cute that he wants to be teased.So funny.

"who are you?"

"Rhett Butler, my dear." Rhett came out of the woods, his brown and black horse pacing up and down beside him.He took off his Panama hat, and with a pretentious and indecent smile on the corner of his mouth, he saluted little Scarlett.

"Mr. Butler, you are really not a gentleman, but you actually overheard a lady's conversation. Besides, I don't remember being acquainted with you, and you actually called me that." In front of strangers, Scarlett naturally pretended to be A real lady, she raised her head involuntarily and proudly, and straightened her back, just like Mammy and Ellen's mother had taught her, but it didn't work very well due to her awkward attire.Rhett saw it, and his smile deepened.It's so interesting.

Rhett didn't care about the girl's words, smiled, raised the hat in his hand, and approached her. "Oh? So you're a lady, dear? Besides, I don't see anyone else talking to the lady I'm looking at. But as far as addressing, if you'd tell me your name, I'd be happy." I can call you respectfully."

Scarlett doesn't like this stranger in front of her, not counting how many of her secretly cursed words were overheard by him, she also doesn't like his eyes and smile, that kind of insightful eyes makes Si Jiali felt like a glass person, and her smile seemed to mock her for not being a lady.

Little Scarlett became furious, stood up, turned her head and walked away, saying "You will never want to know my name!" But she accidentally stepped on a small stone and twisted her ankle, and was dramatically caught by Rui when she was about to fall. Butler was in his arms.

In little Scarlett's mind, it was like the story of the prince and the princess in the fairy tale that Mama Hei told herself. When the princess fell down, the prince caught her and turned around.Although Rhett didn't turn around when he caught Scarlett, it didn't affect little Scarlett's planting a seed of love in the soil of her heart.A long time later, when the war came, when Rhett was not by her side, when she was in distress, she always took this scene out to appreciate, and every time she would draw the same conclusion: we were made for each other.

But these thoughts are all later. After the two got together, Scarlett was very keen to find evidence that they were a natural pair. Little Scarlett is still angry now.This person actually ridiculed her for not being a lady, although in fact Scarlett knew in her heart that she was indeed not a lady, but that was the point.Because he was right.

"Let go of me, you scoundrel!"

"I can't let go now, honey, do you want to fall into the water?" Rhett gave her a smile. "Okay, don't move, I'll help you sit down."

Scarlett didn't make a sound, and let him sit on the original big rock with her support.He checked Scarlett's ankle, took a jug of wine from the horse, poured it into his hand, and tried to rub it lightly for her.She felt the warmth of her ankle, the temperature of his palm.

"Hiss~" Scarlett's legs twitched.

Rhett looked up at her with a comforting look, without the banter just now. "Does it hurt? Bear with me, my dear girl."

The water in the creek is flowing slowly, the birds are singing crisply, and the wind is rustling the leaves.Scarlett had never felt so still.

"Okay, it's not a big problem. Now you have to go home and get some medicine." Rhett looked at her, and Scarlett's hesitant look fell into his eyes.He said immediately, "But before that, we have to dress you up."

He washed his hands, helped Scarlett retie a simple hairstyle, helped her wash off the dust on her face, helped her clean the wounds on her palms, and helped her pat the dried dirt off her skirt.Although little Scarlett struggled during this process, it was finally completed.

"I think you can walk, can't you?"

"No, it's not possible." Scarlett told a little lie that was harmless to herself.

"In that case... help me hold the hat." Rhett took a playful look at her, took off his hat and handed it to Scarlett, then carried her on his back and walked towards the end of the sunset.

"Why don't you use your horse to drive me home?" Scarlett asked, lying on Rhett's back.He obviously has a horse.

"I'm afraid you'll fall off your horse, dear."

Scarlett frowned: "I won't fall!"

"Oh! Well, it seems that I have to tell the real reason, or my princess will be angry." Rhett said with a smile.

"What reason?" Scarlett ignored him calling herself her princess.

"Because I want to stay a little longer with this beautiful lady I just met."

"Encounter?"

"Meaning to meet, dear."

"Well, that's not a bad word."

Scarlett felt that this person was actually not bad, not too bad.On the contrary, he was very kind.He's still not a gentleman though.But the point is, she's not a lady either.

"Scarlett O'Hara." Scarlett still chose to tell him her name generously.

Rhett laughed. "Rett Butler, nice to meet you, my princess."