[Gone with the Wind] Parallel Time and Space

Chapter22Connection

Vaux-Sparrow's life has been relatively smooth recently. Except for some minor problems in business, there are no major problems, and there is no physical discomfort. Emotionally, he recently felt that Rose, who has beautiful red hair, is very suitable for him. .For him, nothing major has happened yet.

He took out the key to open the door and entered the house, and turned it back after a while. When he opened the mailbox, he found two letters. He closed the door with his foot, and went in while reading the letters.One from Rose—must have been just sweet words, and one from sister Green, who opened Rose's letter first as he put Rose's letter on the table.Green went to France last year and taught at the University of Paris. To be honest, he really missed her after she left.After all, Green had raised him since his parents died when he was six years old.This letter... In fact, even if he didn't open it, he knew what the letter would say. It was nothing more than asking if he was well, how his business was, whether he had any difficulties and needed help, plus some information about his recent situation.

With a smile on his face, Walker threw the whole person onto the sofa, and read carefully.

"You brat, you haven't written to me for so long." She must have frowned with anger, but her eyes revealed deep love.

"Pay attention to your body, eat enough and wear warm clothes."—She always worried about such things, just like when she was a child.

"I'm fine here, don't worry." - I'm not worried about you.

"A professor from the law department pursued me, but he is already married."——Then he didn't agree, how could a married old man be worthy of Greensparrow?

"There is no difficulty in business?"—No, it is very good, sister, what can make it difficult for me, Vox Sparrow?

"Will you come over for Christmas or should I go back?"—whatever, anywhere in the world as long as we are together.

"Missing you, Walker." - Missing you, Green.

Walker read the letter twice—it was much darker. He lit a candle, got up and put it in the desk drawer, with many other letters from Green. Kaifeng.

He went into the bathroom, hummed a song, washed up as usual, dried his face with a towel, and stared at himself in the mirror. Walker in the mirror squinted and flicked a razor before leaving.

He opened the door of the bedroom, but stopped for a while, and then entered the room, he was not in a hurry to light the candles in the room, but walked briskly to the side of the bed and lifted the quilt, the razor in his hand was already aimed at the visitor's neck.And at that moment, the person who came knocked down the razor and dropped it to the ground with a soft sound.

After dozens of seconds of silence, laughter came from the room.

Vox-Sparrow happily gave Rhett a hard blow, and Rhett took it. "Sudden surprise, huh?"

"I can't see it. You probably have to cause me some trouble." Walker sat down on the edge of the bed.

"I'll sleep first, and I'll talk to you tomorrow." Rhett lay down again, pulling the quilt and closing his eyes. "Excuse me, lift your butt and sit on the quilt."

Walker was speechless. He first took off his shoes and socks, then kicked Rhett who was wrapped in a blanket, and then said, "Go in, you predator." Rhett moved in.

Walker lay down, he was angry for a while and said, "Why don't you go to the hotel?"

"No cash."

"Has the war made you poor?"

"No cash doesn't mean no money, Walker. You should be a fool."

"Yes..." Walker was stopped by Rhett as soon as he opened his mouth. "Shut up, idiot, the bank is closed, I came to see you as soon as I got to Washington."

Walker slapped an elbow, earning a grunt from Rhett, and he fell asleep contentedly.

"three!"

"Hey, I should make an honest, kind, and compassionate gentleman friend. Interest is only one of the foundations for maintaining our friendship." Walker compared three in front of him, which means three times the profit.This treacherous businessman.

"Don't talk nonsense, Rhett, I won't do this for you unless you're a friend."

Rhett compromised.He still remembered the job that his venerable lieutenant general friend got for him during the war—purchasing munitions for the Confederacy.The last sum of funds is already in the Bank of England, but the Confederacy has already been defeated before it can be used. The only problem now is the source of the funds. If he deposits them in the Commonwealth Bank, it will be frozen, and there will be no last penny left. .At this time, he needs Walker to help him launder the money.

"Then, I'll leave it to you." Rhett patted Walker on the shoulder.

Walker made a gesture, saying that there is no problem, after all, it is three times the profit.

Walker wrote back to Green that he would travel directly from England to spend Christmas with her in France.

As the central bank of the United Kingdom, the Bank of England has become the largest and busiest financial institution in the world since its creation in 1694.From the outside of the main entrance, it is divided into three floors. The first floor is supported by eight columns, with a large arch in the middle. With it as the axis of symmetry, three small arches in total are sandwiched between the columns. The second floor is supported by six nude statues. The most distinctive feature is that there are two columns on the third floor, a total of six groups, a total of twelve columns, and a statue of a saint is carved on the top.

When Rhett and Walker walked out of the Bank of England, it was snowing, and the crystal clear snowflakes fell all over the sky and melted on the ground, leaving no trace of whiteness when the carriage passed the stone road.

"Oh, what a pity, the first snow fell on the day before Christmas Eve." Walker put on his hat.

"You might catch the first snow in Paris today if you go to France," Rhett suggested, lighting a cigar.

"Then you go back to America?" The two stood in front of the bank. Anyone who saw them would think that they were two decent gentlemen. Their shoes were polished and shiny, and their coats looked fashionable and expensive. His hair was pomaded and neatly combed, and Walker asked for a cigar and lit a fire to smoke together.

The wind was blowing, and Rhett felt a little cold. He turned up his collar with a cigarette in his mouth, and said casually, "Well, let's go to Atlanta."

"God! Atlanta? I heard it right. Are you crazy?" Walker held the cigarette in his hand with a look of disbelief. "No, don't you know your situation? Those northerners in Atlanta know your background and your wealth. They will squeeze you dry, and you will even go to jail and be sentenced to death by any means—all for your sake. Money, of course..." He smiled: "I still have a small part of this money."

"I don't care..." Rhett avoided Walker's sight.

"Ha! When did Captain Butler stop caring about his money and life?" Walker's mocking tone reminded Rhett of himself.Ah, that tone is really annoying, no wonder they became friends.Walker continued: "Then, for the sake of friends, think of me when you make your will, so they won't take all the money."

"Who knows?" Rhett raised his eyebrows.

"Let's go, go have a cup of coffee, don't stand here, it's so cold." So Rhett also put on his hat, and the two walked straight down the street facing the snowflakes. Made two pairs of footprints.

When they finally warmed up with coffee, Walker couldn't resist bringing the subject up again. "Is there anything wrong with waiting for the wind to pass for a while?"

"I'm going to propose." Rhett said these words flatly, he smiled calmly, with an uncharacteristically gentle look in his eyes.

"She can't afford to wait, and I'm afraid of missing out..."

"I rely on..." The amount of information was a bit large, so he had to take it easy.Rhett Butler is going to get married, isn't he the one who once swore that getting married is the most stupid thing in the world?Wasn't he the one who insisted that he was an unmarriageist? "There is no most surprised, only more surprised."

"who is it?"

"Scarlett O'Hara, a girl from Georgia."

"Georgia? Wait, I found something serious." Walker put the coffee on the table and searched carefully in his mind. "When we first met, it's been almost ten years. You would go to Georgia almost every year. You can't be the little girl you mentioned!"

Ritter nodded, beginning to regret revealing so much.Walker began to tease Rhett, "Okay, after chasing him for more than ten years? Huh?"

"Boom—boom—boom—" the clock on the wall rang.

"Hush..." Rhett put his index finger on his lips, and he pointed outside: "It's twelve o'clock."

The snow was falling harder and harder, and the street looked dark and empty. Walker was carrying the suitcase and walking forward. Suddenly he stopped and turned around.He saw Rhett's back tilted and stretched very long under the candlelight.Suddenly, he felt that Rhett was great, a height and a field that he had never touched.

Rhett Butler, he stepped into hell with one foot, and heaven with the other, and he moved forward to an unknown future. He didn't know whether he would go to heaven or hell, or a blank space that was neither.

Be careful...