Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner Chapter 16

"Master, Miss Howard is here!" Caroline came in to report when Tangning was struggling to decide whether she should give up being the "Prince Wen Chao".

"Oh, let her in!" Tangning replied casually.

Although Tangning only said something casually, Caroline's heart was shocked when she heard it, because the master never let guests into his study, but today he let Miss Howard in, could she really be her mistress in the future ?

With this complicated mentality, Caroline welcomed Scarlett into the study very politely. As soon as she entered the door, Scarlett asked in surprise, "Tony, are you writing something?"

Tangning nodded and replied, "Well, I'm trying to imitate Mr. Edgar Allan Poe to write detective novels!"

"Can you show me?" Scarlett asked.

Tangning hesitated for a while, then replied, "It's not impossible, but I haven't finished writing it yet."

Scarlet mistakenly thought Tangning didn't want to show her the draft, so she said generously, "Then show it to me when you're done!"

Unexpectedly, Tangning smiled bitterly, "I guess I can't finish writing it, because when I actually wrote it myself, I realized how difficult it is to write novels."

In fact, Tangning was telling the truth. Before time-travel, he saw that many of the seniors' first pot of gold was obtained by being a copywriter. However, when he really got started, he realized that it was too difficult. Even if he clearly remembered the plot of Sherlock Holmes, he would still Not so easy to copy.

First of all, he does not have the memory of those seniors, and can memorize hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of novels with millions of words. He only remembers the general plot, so what he is doing now is basically equivalent to writing a fan. After all, his The protagonist can no longer be called Sherlock Holmes.

This is easy to handle. The real trouble is the style of writing. Tangning's writing is still based on the style of Chinese Internet literature before, but this is New Orleans in the 19th century. This style of writing will definitely not work, so it must be changed to suit the era and the style of writing. The writing of the environment was too difficult for Tangning.

Another point is that there are no computers or mobile phones in this era, so I can only write word by word on the manuscript paper with a pen. God knows Tangning has not written more than 100 words with a pen for many years. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of words, my fingers and arms can't stand it at all, and if I don't write a few thousand words, it will be sore.

Then there was the issue of writing. Since it was in the United States, submissions had to be written in English. The problem was that Tangning found that she had no feeling when she was "creating" in English. It was important to know that coding was a matter of feeling or state. Many writers and writers' quirks are actually just a little habit to get yourself into a writing state (for example, I am, if the font and interface are not adjusted to the way I am used to, I will feel extremely uncomfortable or even It's awkward, it is impossible to code words in this state, at least it is impossible to code words smoothly.)

As a Chinese, Tangning's accustomed way of writing and reading is naturally Chinese. Now he is very awkward when he looks at the lines of English. In the end, he can only use a very troublesome method, which is to use Chinese to read his mind first. The ideas are written out, and then transcribed in English. This speed is naturally extremely slow.

So now Tangning was thinking about giving up the very promising career of "Wen Sho Gong". Anyway, she wasn't short of money.

Just as Tangning was full of thoughts, Scarlett said to him, "Tony, Uncle Frick is holding a dance the night after tomorrow, will you be my dance partner?"

"Of course it's my honor, but I'm not very good at dancing!" Tangning replied embarrassedly.

And Scarlett replied nonchalantly, "It's okay, I'll take you when the time comes!"

Then he took another step closer and said in a low voice, "By the way, I heard that General Li will come to this dance!"

"General Li? Which General Li?" Tangning didn't respond for a while.

"Which General Lee could it be, of course, General Robert Lee, the principal of the West Point Military Academy. Don't you hear about him, Tony?" Scarlett asked in surprise.

Tangning thought to herself, how could I have never heard of him, he was the commander-in-chief of the Alliance during the Civil War a few years ago, and he also made outstanding contributions in the Mexican-American War a few years ago, but I really don't know that he is still at West Point. Principal, if he said so, then when the Civil War was fought in a few years, many of the middle and senior generals on the opposite side were actually his students...

Although General Li was the commander of the slave-owner army, he actually did not support slave ownership very much. His own slaves were always in the single digits, only for him when his father-in-law died, or more precisely for his wife. He gave 63 slaves, and after the period stipulated in the will, he released them all.

But no matter what, Tangning would definitely not miss the opportunity to meet this legendary figure. Of course, even if he couldn't see General Li, he didn't want to refuse Scarlett's invitation. .

"Tony, I'm leaving after this dance!" Scarlet said suddenly leisurely.

"Go? Where are you going? Are you going back to Georgia?" Tangning asked in surprise.

Scarlett shook her head and replied, "No, I'm going to Richmond to see my aunt, and then go back to Georgia!"

Then he said, "Tony, can you come to Georgia?" Then he added: "Uh, I think there will be a lot of people looking for you to install electric lights in Atlanta!" (Atlanta is the capital of Georgia)

"Then do you want me to go?" Tangning asked vaguely, taking a step closer.

"Dang, of course!" Scarlett replied somewhat bewildered.

"For the beautiful Scarlett, I will definitely go!" Tangning said with a smile.

Maybe because she thought this scene was too ambiguous, Scarlett was a little shy: "Well, that's fine, then I'll go back first, Tony!"

"I'll send you off!" After speaking, Tangning stood up.

Scarlett waved her hands again and again: "No, you can continue writing your novel, I'm still waiting to read it!" After that, Scarlett left quickly, because she was a little afraid to stay here and didn't know what would happen. what's up......

Looking at Scarlet's back, Tangning couldn't help but smile. In fact, he hadn't decided whether to marry Scarlet. After all, the two had known each other for too short a time, and they didn't know each other well enough, but Scarlet gave him The impression is still good, especially girls who grew up in southern families, should be able to accept that their husbands have many women, right?

PS: Today the Commission for Discipline Inspection arranged a lot of work for me, so I didn't update it normally at 3 o'clock. It is estimated that this will be the case for the past two days. I will try my best to save the manuscript at night!

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