[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

As a time-traveling girl, Marge never imagined that she would have a day of worrying about housing prices!And it was the world after time travel, America in the mid-nineteenth century!

On that day, it was another small gathering at Clark’s house. Several senior members of the Freemasonry were sitting in Margo’s small reception room. Henry Hamilton smashed a document on the red-heart walnut desk and said loudly:

"It's not normal! It's really not normal! In just five months, the old Barton's house and the Flower's house in the next block were traded four times and six times respectively, and the final transaction price was double that of the first time." fan!"

Henry Hamilton is a well-known lawyer in Atlanta, and most of the house sales in Atlanta go through his hands.Although Henry is not young anymore, he is in good spirits and full of vitality. His hair is always tidy and his suit jacket is always straight. Even though he is gray-haired, he is still very sharp.

As it is now, he knows better than most people in Atlanta what soaring housing prices mean.

The two houses that Henry Hamilton mentioned are very clear to everyone present.Because of Marg’s Southern Plantation’s post-war mutual aid plan, upper-class families in other parts of Georgia moved to Atlanta. The original Peachtree Street couldn’t fit in, so it was expanded, and Peachtree Street became Peachtree Street, a street. It became one main street and two subsidiary streets.The old Barton family and the Flower family that Henry mentioned were the newly moved original southern plantation families.

Like many families in the South, the old Bartons lost all their sons in the war except for the old couple and their three daughters, while the Flowers were left with a group of women and one less than nine years old. year old child.Coupled with the occurrence of blacks attacking white families and insulting white women everywhere, these two families, like other families, chose to move to Atlanta.

The war caused a serious consequence, that is, a large number of male whites died. Therefore, in the south, the ratio of male to female was seriously unbalanced. In addition, southern families insisted on their beliefs and would never marry their daughters to northern whites. This also caused southern families If those girls in the village don't want to marry disabled people, they can only be old girls at home.

Therefore, although many plantation families had a good income after joining Marg's post-war mutual aid program for plantation families in the south, most families were still short of money.

There is no way, although love is very important in marriage, but money is also very important.There is no large amount of dowry, not to mention the hardships of life, but the parents, if possible, how many people are willing to watch their daughters being wronged?

Because it is a concentration of old-fashioned decent people, and the quality of the houses is quite good, the houses in this area of ​​Peachtree Street are also the tallest in Atlanta.So it is really not surprising that, like the old Bartons and the Flowers, they could not resist selling their house for cash.

The old Atlanta citizens like Henry were angry, and it wasn't that these two families sold their houses and cashed out the houses.In fact, they were annoyed that it was the Yankees who ended up buying the house!

Few families in the South would be comfortable with the thought of opening their doors and seeing those Yankee women, arm in arm with their husbands, standing in their porch!

Jane Hamilton, Aunt Pittpat cried more than once in public: "Oh, I really didn't expect that one day the Yankees would stand on my porch and say hello to me! Seeing them flatter me I really want to pass out when I see my smiling face! Oh, I'm feeling sick again, can I have some smelling salts?"

Aunt Pittpat is the quintessential old-timey woman, with a very obvious, old-timey, very deliberate coquettishness.

And such women, like those body curves that have been distorted by the waist, are the evil results of an earlier era.

But in normal social etiquette, people must guarantee tolerance and respect, because they represent an era.

Scarlett always scoffed at such things.Scarlett is blunt, sometimes to the point of being offensive.

She put it like this: "Oh, my God, what does that matter! Why can't I deal with those Yankees as long as they can make me money? I'd love to deal with them."

There was a reason for Scarlett to say that.

Although the Bank of Atlanta was established by Margot and Suellen, it is also the most trusted bank for southern families, but there is more than one bank in Atlanta, not to mention the Bank of England, the Bank of France, and those who have money Jews, they all set up branches in Atlanta.When there are too many banks, some people compete for customers from each other.

Because of Margot's relationship, the Bank of Atlanta had a large number of customers relying on the post-war mutual aid plan of the southern plantation family, so it was very careless in developing customers, and Scarlett had lost his temper several times because of this.

Scarlett even broke out with the male employees several times because of this, just like she had conflicts with the manager of the timber factory in the original book, even after Ashley worked for her because she couldn't bear to exploit the prisoners and made the timber factory lose money. It made her doubt Ashley's abilities as well.

Scarlett is an egoist. She is stubborn, unyielding, and full of cleanliness. Not to mention that she does not meet the requirements of women in this era, she is placed in men, those men who were pampered as masters and masters in the old era, She is also a minority radical | progressive | elements | child.

Such a Scarlett, even though Marge and her family have tried their best, they can't hide her brilliance.

There is no one in Atlanta who doesn't know Scarlett.In the upper-class families in the south, everyone looks at the Hamilton family, for the sake of Gerald and Ellen, and for the sake of Margot and Suellen. Her reputation was still fairly defended--of course, Scarlett herself didn't give a damn.

As expected by Margo, and to the surprise of most people in the South, Scarlett actually had quite a status in front of the Yankees, especially those Yankee women!Also very prestigious!

These women followed their husbands to Atlanta, an unfamiliar city. Although they had their own circles, they still yearned for the south and the lifestyle of those upper-class families in the south.

In their eyes, southerners are nobles.

Do everything possible to squeeze into the Peach Tree Street, that is their goal.

And this is one of the things that the upper-class families in the south are very disgusted with.On more than one occasion, Scarlett heard the older Three Pillars say at gatherings, "My God, how did they even think of selling the house? To the Yankees!"

For this, Scarlett was always very disgusted: "What can I do? Who made them need money? Besides, there are only old people, women and children in these families, and you don't let them work, what else can they do?" ?”

"But there is rent!"

"But they need money. Marriage is a huge expense!" Scarlet said impatiently, "How to deal with their houses is their own business, and we have no right to interfere."

Scarlett would never have thought that when he said this, his expression resembled Margot's.

This remark allowed Scarlett to successfully choke the ladies, but it also made her less popular with the older ladies.

This worried Ellen, but Scarlett didn't care.

Scarlett herself didn't realize that she was getting closer to Margot bit by bit in thought, and she was getting closer to Rhett Butler in words.