[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

When Margot released the news at the ball, it aroused extensive discussions. Of course, the people on Peachtree Street would not say much. They are all southerners, and the enthusiasm and hospitality of the South have already been deeply rooted in their bones.For them, it is not uncommon for newlyweds to meet hospitable and thoughtful friends when they go out on their honeymoon and stay at a friend's house until the second child is born. Revitalizing property is also in line with the life logic of southerners.

Not only the upper-class families in the south, but also the personal servants and maids of the southerners who follow the masters all the year round, they also think so.They all firmly believe that the kind Mrs. Clark is warm and generous, a model of a lady in the south, and Mrs. Clark will never go wrong.

But in the eyes of the Yankees, blacks and even foreigners who don't understand the South, Margot's behavior is stupid.

The Yankee women respected Margo and those Southern ladies outside, and tried their best to integrate into the Atlanta social circle. No, it should be said that the Georgia power circle directly belongs to the Peachtree Street social circle, but in private, there are also many people in it. After nightfall, in front of the fireplace, there are many secret whispers that no one knows.

"Those southern women, who don't even know they're being treated as beggars, still go after that woman so much!"

It was some northern lady who had paid a fortune for a house on the edge of Peachtree.She just wanted to get into Marge's circle, so she bought this house at a huge price, but who would have thought that the people in Peachtree Street would move out collectively!

Her husband, Johnson Morff, sat on the side, and said indifferently: "What's the matter. Since Mrs. Clark wants to buy a house nearby, we will also sell it, isn't that all right?"

Morph's most important purpose is to mix into that circle, where he lives specifically,

Her wife, Mrs. Morff, immediately brightened her eyes: "That's right. I will also sign the agreement tomorrow. If she dares not to take our house, I will tell her that she has ulterior motives and treats her old friend as a beggar..."

Mrs. Morff said it happily, but she didn't know the old oriental saying that walls have ears.She was talking happily in the room, but she didn't know that a figure quietly disappeared into the night after listening to her words.And the surrounding patrol team is even used to it.

After walking down a street, the shadow knocked on the wooden door of a small white|pink house—the kind usually reserved for Negro footmen in white families, and of course, a white|pink house. There won't be just one room, but the black people in this room are not ordinary.

His name is Prophet.

That's right, he was a black slave farming in Tara Manor before, but a long time ago, he was a quasi-priest in a certain tribe in Africa, and now, he is the wisdom of the black people in Atlanta.

"Those damned Yankees!"

People yell loudly as soon as they enter the door.

"Sam, calm down."

Who was this man who had just come in but Big Sam from Tara?

"I can't calm down! Prophet! You know it! Miss has done so much but there are still people..."

Obviously, Big Sam was very angry.

This is the case with black people, they may not have received much education, so they are more simple in good and evil.Treating them well is a good person, and treating them badly is a bad person.Just like in the original book, the white people are very good to the personal servants and personal maids, so the black people serving in these houses are loyal to their masters, but the black people below, especially the black people who do rough work in the fields, They have never been treated so well, and the blacks who do rough work in the fields always occupy the majority.

Although the original book used a considerable amount of space to describe the black people who left the manor and found that the outside was not as beautiful as they imagined and had to ask passers-by to help them contact their old masters, the wives of the manor owners, but the fact is, Still more than half of the blacks don't have much nostalgia for the life in the plantation, and most of them have never thought about going back.

Atlanta and Georgia are due to Marge, and because of her efforts, Barton Manor and Rose Manor evolved into super farms and turned into another kind of monster, but outside of Georgia, the fate of black people is still worrying.

The Prophet is very worried about his people, but even he himself does not know where the danger lies, only that there are threats on all sides.

This made the Prophet feel very powerless, just like when he first arrived at Tara Manor.

Naturally, the Prophet would not tell his worries to these old friends like Sam, he didn't want the old friends to worry along with them.

Soon, the prophet's fear happened.

Originally, because the Yankees wanted to squeeze into the Peachtree neighborhood, Atlanta's real estate industry jumped three times, and the house price was 2.7 times that of this time last year.But the surge in home prices at that time was largely concentrated in the Peachtree neighborhood.In suburban Atlanta, housing prices are still pretty cheap in many places.

Kemag's statement caused the housing prices in Atlanta to soar, and even the land prices in the suburbs also doubled.

Although both Margot and Suellen are firmly holding on to the real estate in their hands, strictly controlling the amount of sales, and even buying some land, there is still a considerable amount of land in Atlanta that is in private hands, and those hot money cannot shake Margot. And Suellen, but they can achieve the goal of doubling their capital by speculating on the existing land.

This makes the real estate industry look prosperous on the surface.

Scarlett didn't care about this, because what she valued was money, as long as it could bring her income, as long as it didn't hurt the people she valued, she didn't care what happened outside.

She is such a person.

But Suellen was not feeling well.

Well, Suellen is a person who can be inexplicably kind sometimes, especially after she married Rhett.In Margot’s words, Rhett is a typical southerner, he loves his wife very much, and also loves Suellen very much. After marrying Rhett, Suellen doesn’t have to worry about this and that, and she is much more relaxed, so her heart softens up.

There was only one thing Suellen was worried about, and that was:

"Margo, you said that real estate has risen so much, how will the black people react?"

Because of Margot's promise, the people in the Peachtree District are about to receive a large amount of money into their accounts.That said, their old friends have suffered little.On the contrary, it is the black people. Although it seems that they all have beautiful new houses to live in, everyone knows that these black people have not worked for Marge for 15 years, so they only have the right to use the house, but not the ownership of the house.If someone got the ownership of the house, it would be logical to evict those black people.

In fact, this is what some sensible black people worry about the most.