Continuation of "Gone with the Wind"

Chapter 15 The Child

On the way she sent a telegram to Aunts Eulalie and Aunt Pauline explaining her coming to Charleston.She deliberately sent it in the middle so that they would not have time to stop her. In fact, she also knew that she was thinking too much. The two aunts kept writing to ask her to come to Charleston, but she always thought that they were too rigid and boring to come.She almost sang with joy at the thought of seeing Rhett soon.

She had packed two suitcases full of clothes, and she could barely carry them by herself, thinking of this made her a little annoyed.His two children stayed in Tara, so they naturally needed Prissy to take care of them, so they couldn't bring her out.Tara also didn't have extra manpower for her to dispatch. It wasn't enough that she called all the servants in Atlanta back to Tara to help, and she couldn't find a suitable servant for a while.But she didn't care about this, and went to the train station alone.The worst thing is to hire another one in Charleston. If it doesn’t work, I can borrow one from the two aunts. After all, she has sent them a lot of money over the years, so it’s not even a servant.

The steward reminded her that she had arrived, and she got out of the car with difficulty dragging two suitcases, her eyes searching the empty carriages running up and down the street.She picked one and told her aunt's residence in the Battery District. The coachman's expression immediately became respectful. Scarlett remembered that it was a high-end residential area in Charleston, but she didn't expect that it even had such a useful name. .

But why do those people who walk slowly feel so familiar to her?I seem to have seen it somewhere.Their clothes, though not so trendy, showed a long-established style.She had been to Charleston before and felt nothing then, but now she felt uncomfortable.This place is definitely not for her, and she even feels that way already.

The sudden stop of the carriage and the sudden outburst of yelling from the coachman startled her.She came back to her senses and saw the coachman pointing at a man who was getting up from the ground with a whip and scolding him.Seeing the small figure, who was still a child, she couldn't bear it, and stopped the driver and said, "Forget it, hurry up." The driver stopped cursing.At this time, the child had already stood up and was about to leave. When he heard her voice, he instinctively looked towards her.The moment their eyes met, she was so surprised that she almost cried out: she definitely saw him, somewhere.She couldn't remember it for a while, but a familiar feeling surrounded her like a warm current, making her speechless.

The child only looked at her once, then lowered his eyes, and stood by the roadside like a respectful servant, letting her pass first.Scarlett looked back, only to see a small figure stepping back.Not entirely true, at least she could see that the child had exactly the same black hair and eyes as Rhett, and there was a small scar on the back of his head.Only there is no long hair in that place, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.

The carriage has gone far away, but Scarlett is still trying to recall the scene just now.Where did I see this scene, why can't I remember it?She didn't remember it until the coachman told her in a respectful voice that her aunt's house had arrived.How did my memory become so poor?How strange.