[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

In May 1862, when Gerald and Ellen sent Scarlett to Atlanta in the original book, Gerald wrote two letters to his two daughters, Margot and Suellen, Ask the two daughters to go to Atlanta and exchange their mother, Ellen.

Yes, since hearing the news of Scarlett's pregnancy, Ellen has gone to Atlanta, leaving her husband and young daughter Karin at Tara.Although he is already married, he is very satisfied with his marriage, and his wife is also a very good wife, but Gerald still lives a life of a bachelor, and it is still a year.Even though her youngest daughter, Karin, worked hard, Karin still couldn't do some things.

Gerald said to his two daughters in the letter: "...you can take Karin with you by the way. She is also 14 years old, and she is a big girl. There are no boys in the county now, let alone dances. She is like this You won’t find a boyfriend if you go down.”

Suellen didn't know how to decide, so she wrote a letter to Margot immediately.Margot didn't object, but suggested that she needed a little time.

Because of the deal with the Confederate government, Margot owns considerable real estate in Atlanta. There is a large piece of land in the suburbs of Atlanta, and many breeding farms have been built to supply the citizens of Atlanta and the wounded in the hospital; near the Atlanta train station, Margot There is also a piece of land that has been built into warehouses and warehouses to store various materials.Of course, shops and houses are indispensable.

Margot had just bought a foundation on Peachtree Street, and by the time Gerald received her letter, the prototype of the new house on Peachtree Street had already appeared.

If he went to Atlanta now, he would definitely have to live in the Hamilton family's house.But Margot and Suellen are very clear that if they go to Atlanta, they will definitely bring their children, and there will be absolutely no shortage of maids, male servants and housekeepers.As a result, whether the Hamilton family has enough room to accommodate them is a problem.

What's more, neither Margot nor Suellen had a good relationship with Scarlett.Living with the Hamiltons in Scarlett's light was definitely a test for Suellen's self-esteem.

So, Margot wrote to her father, saying that she was not done with the things in her hands, and she would set off for Atlanta when the things in her hands were over.On the surface, Margo is planning to arrange all kinds of things on her estate and for the south. In fact, Margo is waiting for her house to be completed, the furniture moved in, and tidied up before going to Atlanta.

John, the black housekeeper of Barton Manor, had already set off to deal with the new house in Atlanta.

One thing Gerald didn't know, like anyone in Atlanta, was that Margot's new house on Peachtree Street had been reinforced with iron bars.

It's a secret.

There is a shortage of iron ore in the south.The port was blocked, and the iron ore outside could not come in. However, the iron mines in the south were unable to start work because the workers went to the battlefield.This also caused a shortage of pig iron raw materials in various foundries in the south.Therefore, the iron pickets on the fences in Atlanta, the iron gazebos, the iron gates and the iron statues on the lawns were all thrown into the iron furnace early.

But those black people actually found a way to find iron ore from the unmanned iron ore in Alabama, and then went back to the workshop of Barton Manor to process the key parts of the spinning machine and loom with iron The iron was smelted out of the furnace, cast into iron bars, added charcoal, smelted into steel bars, and finally secretly transported to Atlanta to be used in the pillars and walls of the new house.

The reason is that when Margot had afternoon tea with her sister-in-law, she said with emotion that it is impossible to build a house strong enough with simple bricks and stones. It would be better if the pillars and walls were embedded with iron bars.Those niggers actually got him iron ore.

These are all done by the black people spontaneously, for this kind wife who brought them a happy life.

Even in the war years, when nothing was too fastidious, the negroes got the best they could for their mistress.Inside the room was a good floor, polished with the best beeswax, and reflected the light like a mirror.

Inside the house is the best red heart walnut, which is cut down by the blacks from the mountains, and then the best carpenters are selected to process it bit by bit, and then paint it layer after layer.

This new house not only symbolizes Margot's success, but also symbolizes the black people's love for this respectable and kind wife.

Although Margo herself hadn't realized it yet.

Of course, if Suellen asked, she could have such a beautiful house, even though she didn't know it.