[Gone with the Wind] Back to the beginning

The return journey is so long.The familiar homeland in the past has been turned into scorched earth, and the desolation and decline are unbearable to witness.The belief in seeing her mother soon was so firm, Scarlett used her feet to measure the way home step by step.No longer the child who was eager to seek protection from her mother, Scarlett held the medicine tightly to her chest, overcame the obstacles of fate, and looked for the end.

This is the biggest challenge she has launched to fate since her rebirth.

It took her almost six hours to trek home, most of which was spent hiding and maneuvering.Fortunately, Scarlett did not encounter the Yankee army, but only saw some stragglers—but these wandering leeches made her even more worried about Tara's current situation.Are these people deserting for fun?Or was he ordered to rest after winning the battle?Scarlett quickly skipped the latter thought, she carefully covered her figure with the remnants of the burnt house, and the sound of horseshoes gradually receded from far away.

The sound of footsteps on the soft dirt road is so dull, it is frightening but full of uneasiness.Jonesboro is dead, are people hiding?Or encountered an accident?Scarlett really wanted to knock on the door to see if there were familiar relatives and friends in those dead houses.But the desire to go home held her back.Don't go to see it, you can see your mother today with a bang!She stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck to look as far as the eye could see. The avenue was close at hand, but the intertwined branches blocked her sight.There Tara is, Tara!The soles of her feet that had been scorched by the fire suddenly regained strength, and Scarlett ran as fast as she could, rushing forward like a madman.

is home!is home!The exposed white brick walls, the wide porches, the draped windows!A cheer stuck in Scarlett's throat, and she patted Tara's white door anxiously.Boom boom boom!Boom boom boom!Why is there no sound at all?Boom boom boom!Boom boom boom!Did something happen at home?Boom boom boom!Boom boom boom!The uneasiness in her heart magnified inch by inch. Just when Scarlett felt that she was about to be tortured madly, heavy footsteps came from inside, and Gerald opened the door.

"Girl!" he cried, holding Scarlett tightly in his arms.

"Dad!" Scarlett yelled. The joy of seeing her father was mixed with the uneasiness that had not subsided. She trembled her lips and asked anxiously, "Where is Mom? How is Mom now?"

"Scarlett!" With a scream, Su Allen was pale and flustered, standing in the hall with her dirty skirt in her hands. Seeing her, she seemed relieved.

"Hurry up and help! Mei Li is going to have a baby!"

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"Merry's going to have a baby? God, what's going on here? Where's Mom? Where's Dilsy? Where's Nurse? Where's Rosa? Where's Prissy? Where'd they all go?"

Hunger and exhaustion made her walk sluggish, but even so, Scarlett still clung to Su Ailun's arm, eager to get an answer, and she didn't even notice the bruises on her sister's arm.

"I don't know! I don't know!" Su Ailun was already driven crazy by the pressure, and the tingling pain on her arm stimulated her nerves even more.Scarlett lost patience after asking her out of the room, and dragged her roughly all the way to run.She finally got some information from Su Ailun who came back to her senses!

"Mom... Mommy is still at Twelve Oaks! Mommy can still hold on, but she won't be able to move back here for fear of infecting everyone!" Su Ailun burst into tears in horror, "Nurse has gone to take care of her! God... ...a lot of Yankee soldiers...niggers, niggers scared away! None of us can do without Mama and Mammy! Dilsy's off to the woods for lumber...Rosa can't find her! Lissie—oh! That useless, big-talking lazybones! How dare she lie to me!" At the end she gritted her teeth, and forgot her panic for a while.

As soon as Scarlett heard it, she understood that she was deceived by Prissy just like her previous life - she thought that girl would deliver the baby!God, Mei Li started at this time, the most reliable nanny and Dilsy are not there, and the other maids have disappeared, no wonder Su Ailun is so scared with bloody hands!No wonder it took so long for my father to open the door just now!He must be guarding Meili's door anxiously and helplessly!

"Scarlett, what should we do now!" Su Ailun asked sharply, and saw her sister push open the door of Meili's room anxiously, ignoring her and directly going inside.Smelling the smell of sweat and blood again, Su Ailun almost vomited. She hesitated for a moment, but stomped her feet and followed in.

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Mellie lay quietly on the bed, the sheets pulled up to her chin.His face was pale, his eye sockets were sunken, and the two eye sockets were darkened, but his eyes were bright and serene, and he looked much calmer than Prissy who was shivering and Su Ailun who was running around.Seeing Scarlett, she tried to smile.But the smile disappeared before it reached her lips, and she let out a soft groan|groan.

"Merry! Oh, Merry!" Scarlett hurried to her side, picked up the wet towel next to her and wiped her face, "How are you? How long have you been born?"

"Half an hour! Maybe longer!" Su Allen said anxiously, "Scarlett, what should I do? What should I do now?" She looked at her sister who had always been difficult to deal with, as if she was looking at a savior.

Scarlett kissed Mei Li's forehead, and looked at her friend's tortured and haggard face with regret.Why is it so difficult for Mei Li to give birth no matter what life she has been in?Then she took a deep breath and tried her best not to pass out when she was hungry and tired, before facing Su Ailun's question again.

"Boil the pot and bring water! The more clean towels the better! Scissors, and thread! Quick, hang up the towels for Miss Meili to catch, and then someone will fan you, quick! Hurry up!"

Straightforward and direct orders are exactly what the confused people urgently need.Busy for a while, Scarlett's order was carried out immediately, and order gradually appeared in the panic.The delivery room began to become orderly.Everything is different from before.Su Ellen looked at what Scarlett was holding under Meili in amazement—a little fluffy head—a soft little shoulder—then the body, and then a loud cry!An amazing little boy!

At this moment, Su Ellen didn't realize how unusual Scarlett's decisive calmness was, nor did she realize how natural it was for her sister to take over the burden that she couldn't lift, as if she had been used to it—she just followed carefully because it was too much. Tired, the elder sister who fell asleep on the bedside just after delivering the baby took the baby boy away. Looking at his immature face, she suddenly felt that the "lower people should deal with it" that she had hated just now was dirty and dirty. It wasn't so unbearable, she had a little bit of admiration for her sister—Scarlett, who had always been at odds with her.

After all, she did what she never thought she should do.Su Ailun didn't know that Scarlett used to come all the way here.

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It was already the afternoon of the second day when Scarlett woke up—excessive fatigue and worry made her fall into a deep sleep, and a strong hunger seized her at the beginning of waking up.Scarlett found herself lying in her room with mockingbirds singing outside the window.For a split second she thought, It's good to be home.Then she realized that she was still in crisis, not the time before the war.She must immediately—

God, Mom!

Scarlett anxiously found the shoes on the ground with her bare feet, put them on carelessly, and ran outside.The rattling of the wooden floors was disturbing.But as soon as she left the room, she saw Prissy holding a large basin of hot water, with towels floating in the hot water.

"Miss Scarlett, you're awake!" Prissy said happily, and she cried out at the top of her voice, "Mother! Pork! Miss Scarlett is awake! Mother—Miss Scarlett, Miss Scarlett, what are you going to do?" what?"

"Where is my mother? How is my mother?" Scarlett didn't have the heart to answer her words at all, her mind was full of scenes from her previous life.The great horror brought about by missing time in deep sleep, where is the mother now?Is she okay?is she still alive

Once Prissy was scolded, she couldn't stop her, she just yelled.Scarlett anxiously questioned her for a long time, but there was no result, so she just shook off her and shouted, "Mommy! Dilsey!"

"Miss Scarlett!" Dilsey rushed over, her bronze skin darkened even more by the snow-white apron.The Indian woman slapped her daughter on the back, and then said to Scarlett calmly, "Miss, please don't worry. Miss Ellen is fine."

"God!" A stone in my heart was finally let go, and Scarlett's feet were so weak that she almost fainted, "Mom is it all right? Are you really all right?" Have you survived this disaster?

"It's okay." Dilsey said with certainty, "She has woken up. Yes, Miss Ellen has woken up today. Her illness is no longer life-threatening, but her body is still a little weak. The doctor got the medicine——" She looked straight into Scarlett's eyes frankly, "Miss Scarlett, you fell asleep and clutched the cloth bag tightly in your hands. We guessed that there was medicine in it and we couldn't delay, so we cut it open with scissors. Pork was sent to Twelve Oaks at once—he was the one who brought back the news of Miss Ellen just now."

She did it!She really did it!Her mom is fine, everything is fine!Sadness and joy rushed into her heart together, and Scarlett felt top-heavy, wishing to grow wings and fly over to see her mother immediately, throw herself into her arms and tell her to take good care of her illness, everything is fine, and she is the support at home.But Dilsey said, "Miss Scarlett, you must eat something. We warmed up sweet potato soup. You are hungry, tired and weak, not much better than Miss Ellen."

The excitement was barely over, and Scarlett nodded in agreement.She really felt that her stomach was growling with hunger, and she had been overdrawing her willpower from just now to now.She let Dilsy help her down and asked, "Where's Dad? Are Meili and the baby okay? Where's Sue Allen and Karin?"

"It's not convenient for Mr. O'Hara to guard you, and he was worried about Miss Ellen, so he was persuaded by my family to pick up Miss Ellen and come back to live." Dilsey also had a smile on her serious face, "Ellen Miss just needs to rest, and it will be convenient to take care of her when she is brought back. It's just that the nanny will jolt her when she talks about it."

"I have to bring Mom back." Scarlett thought silently, the Yankees would come around around the same time in her previous life.At that time they burned twelve oak trees.She couldn't let her mother stay there—the Yankees were coming, and the family was going to be together anyway.Moreover, what she did in this life will never be worse than what her father did in the previous life, she must keep Tara.

"Miss Karin has been in poor health, and she still needs more recuperation after the typhoid fever. Miss Su Allen was also tired yesterday. She just got up and ate and went back to rest. Miss Meili and the baby are both fine, but they are still weak No bed."

"It's good to be here." Scarlett murmured.

This is already everything she dared not dream of.

Even a dozen miles away, a group of bandits is about to pounce.

"Dilcey, gather up the leftover grain at home." Scarlett said decisively, "The Yankees may show up at any time, and when the carriage picks up mother and comes back, we have to load the grain into the cart and drive it to the woods to hide it." .Remember to leave a little bit.”

Dilsey nodded silently.Looking at the stoic woman, Scarlett felt suddenly relieved to know that she was not alone preparing for what was to come.

"I will never give up on Tara," she said.