Chapter 574 Intermission

After Scarlett went back to Tyra from Atlanta after all the hardships, what greeted her was not the golden worry-free life with the protection of her parents when she was a girl. Her father was insane, her mother was sick from taking care of malarial whites, her sisters were very ignorant, there were only two or three house servants left in the house, and there were only carrots in the fields...

Pomona shuddered suddenly. Hogwarts was a mess when she eloped desperately. In June, people from the International Federation of Wizards would come to monitor it. Now it seems that it is not the time for her to watch movies.

She looked at Lin Yan. The acting skills in the late 1930s were a bit exaggerated, which probably didn't suit the young man's taste. He didn't take this classic movie seriously, and the mobile phone he played was also the same as what she saw on the street. Different, there is no number key for dialing, and his fingers keep sliding on it, which looks very interesting.

"This phone seems to be different from what I usually see." She had nothing to say.

"This is a concept phone, have you heard of Apple?" Lin Yan asked.

"Apple? The kind of apple you eat?"

Lin Yan sighed as if discouraged: "Which century are you living in?"

"Have you seen Gone with the Wind?" Pomona continued.

"Yes, I've seen it." Lin Yan put down the phone, crossed his hands on his stomach, and talked to her sideways.

He is obviously the kind of Chinese who was born abroad, and he doesn't have the temperament of the older generation. Zhang Tao is still living here, and he is almost as old as an antique.

"Which female character do you like? Melanie or Scarlett?"

Lin Yan smiled and shook his head.

"You don't like either?"

"That's just characters in movies and novels, not real."

"As you saw just now, Atlanta was burned down. Now you have $1,000, which is equivalent to $10,000. You want to take that money to make a living in Atlanta after the Civil War. Tell me, what are you going to do?"

"Why can't I go to New York?" Lin Yan asked back.

"Because shortly after the Civil War, the United States began to abolish the use of green notes and replaced the silver standard with the gold standard. There will be a big turmoil in the stock market, and you may lose nothing. Your monthly pocket money is How many?"

"Why should I tell you?"

"I heard that some people spend 2,000 pounds for one night in a nightclub. According to this way of spending, 10,000 dollars can only be used for five days at most. Are you this kind of person?"

"No." Lin Yan shook his head immediately.

"Then what are you going to do with the money?"

Lin Yan thought about it.

"I will use this money to take out a loan." Lin Yan said, "To buy a house, so that I can use him as a mortgage and have more start-up funds."

"Oh, my God." Pomona shook her head in disappointment.

"Any questions?"

"Have you forgotten the homestead law promulgated by Abraham Lincoln? From January 1, 1863, all American citizens who have reached the age of 21, or foreigners who meet the naturalization requirements and apply for naturalization, in order to live and farm, free or paid With a registration fee of 10 dollars, you can get no more than 160 acres of state-owned land in the west as an allotment. After 5 years of cultivation, or if you live on the house for half a year within 5 years and pay the fee of 1.25 dollars per acre, the land you receive will belong to the Besides, Atlanta just burned down, so there is no house to sell to you.” Pomona squinted at Lin Yan, “Think about it, sir, why does Scarlett want to do the lumber business?”

Lin Yan suddenly realized.

"She was cornered for $300, do you know where the money came from?"

"Lord tax... no, let me think..."

"It is a cotton tax. In order to make up for the losses of the Civil War, but also to retaliate against the South. In 1865, just after the Civil War ended, Congress decided to levy a cotton tax. It was not based on price but on weight. A tax of 2.5 US dollars per pound of cotton was imposed. In 1866, it was increased to 3 cents per pound. Remember what Scarlett said? Next year's cotton will grow as high as the sky. The better their harvest, the more taxes they will pay. $300 is 10,000 pounds Cotton, the collection of cotton tax is to delay the economic recovery in the South, as we all know, Georgia has the lowest level of justice and integrity, and New York State has the heaviest taxation, do you want to be a good citizen who pays taxes according to the law?"

Pomona's words made Lin Yan laugh.

"I remember the episode where Scarlett's second husband was her sister's fiancé, and he saved a sum of money to start a family with her, like $1,000."

"He wants to buy a house in Atlanta so it can be used as a new home, you know what Scarlett does? She uses the money for a lumber business, and when rebuilding after the war, building materials are the most profitable, thank God Fortunately, Scarlett is in charge of the housekeeping, if it were her younger sister, she might have a lovely home herself, but Terra Manor can't be kept."

"In order to save costs, she also hired prisoners, because slavery has been abolished." Lin Yan rubbed her nose, "She is really a cold-blooded woman."

"But she's smart, cute and beautiful, would you marry such a woman?"

Lin Yan shook his head, "I have no plans to get married now."

"If you have a lot of wealth, there must be people watching. The tax of Terra Manor has been reported high. Do you know why?"

"Because someone wants to force them to sell the land."

"That's right, $300 is not a small amount. Even if Frank lent her the money, the Yankee who snooped on Tyra Manor will definitely come again. Scarlett needs a new stable income, not from cotton, but from other things." Yes, that's why she was desperate to seduce Frank, Scarlett's sister is as selfish as she is, and she thinks Scarlett is abusing them by letting girls like them work, she hates living in Terra and just wants to escape , when she and Frank get married, she probably won’t spend a dime to save Tyra.”

"You like Scarlett?"

"I like her intelligence and strength, but I don't like her attitude towards love, that's too stupid." Pomona looked at the sunset on the silver screen, "What's wrong with the captain?"

"He said he was an unmarried man."

"But he married Scarlett..."

"That's because he knows that she loves Ashley, and what he can't get is always the best. If he knows that Scarlett is in love with him, he will soon find her boring. He is the kind of special A bastard who hurt women's hearts is different from a gentleman like Ashley. Ashley is really a gentleman. He has been pestered by such a beautiful and passionate woman for so many years. If it wasn't because his life was so unsatisfactory, I think he might I won't really have an affair with Scarlett."

"What!" Pomona screamed.

"Melanie is very good, but she doesn't have the enthusiasm of Scarlett. A woman's enthusiasm can best ignite a man's love. It is easier to get along with her."

"You can also relax with Melanie..."

"I respect Melanie a lot, but Rhett didn't think badly about her at all. She turned an opportunistic rogue into a gentleman. Don't you think she's scary?"

"Well……"

"Scarlett just killed someone, and she said 'you did a good job', do you think there are people like this in reality? I think if there is, people around her will become abnormal, Scarlett just killed one person, because Melanie encouraged her without any guilt, and was busy counting the money in his wallet. The only rational explanation is that the war made everyone crazy." Lin Yan also Watching the sunset on the silver screen "People who are looking for realism in the virtual world must have a brain problem, it's just a movie, don't take it too seriously, miss, I'm not interested in either Melanie or Scarlett .”

"Do you think you should feel guilty about killing a robber who broke into your home?" asked Pomona.

Lin Yan fell silent.

"Under British and American laws, illegally forcibly breaking into someone's house and being killed by the owner does not bear any responsibility. The reason why Scarlett and Melanie were so afraid was because the war was not over at that time, and Scarlett They killed a Yankee, and God knows what the victors will do to them, maybe confiscate their property." Pomona said angrily, "It's been an hour, how long are they going to talk?"

"You know, what other women will talk to me after watching that movie?" Lin Yan said blankly, "They will guess whether Rhett and Scarlett will be reunited in the end."

"Oh." Pomona was stunned.

"Now I find myself living in a world that is more painful than death, a world where there is no place for me. This is what Xuesui learned from Gyo Gyo's book. Have you read Keigo Higashino's White Night Walk?"

Pomona shook her head.

"It was a Japanese mystery novel. After reading that book, Xuesui gradually grew from a weak girl to a woman who was competitive, greedy and cruel, and used all means to achieve her goals. But she was not happy at all, she became I have become a "ghost" like Xuenv, I really don't understand why she is so eager to join the upper class. There is also a famous saying in Piaoli, "You give up your happiness to pursue something that will not make you happy at all." Things', how many people in this world can give without regret like Liangji, why can't she see it?"

"That's just a novel," Pomona said.

Lin Yan smiled wryly and shook his head, "I hope it's really a novel. Every time I gather, I see too many people like her who make themselves elegant and noble. Sometimes I don't know whether I am really alive or not. In someone's script."

At this moment, the halftime ended, and the opening chapter was full of flames, which introduced the battle situation in characters. The northern army was in full swing, destroying the remaining southern forces. Then the camera turned, and in the cotton field, the two former The noble lady is working.

"Look at my hands," said a girl. "Mother says a woman's hands tell her parentage."

"I guess women aren't as close to their hands as they used to be," said another girl.

"Be an ordinary woman." Lin Yan stood up, "In this way, each of us will have a better life."

Then he leaves the auditorium without looking back as Rhett had left Scarlett, only Rhett disappeared into the fog of Terra and he disappeared behind the door.