Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner

"Master, there is a Mr. Matt Warner coming to visit!" The housekeeper Rob reported to Tangning that day.

"Matt Warner? I don't think I know this person," Tangning muttered while frowning.

"He seems to have just bought Mr. Maxi's estate, so he came to visit the neighbors," explained Rob.

"Oh, that's it, I didn't expect Maxi's estate to sell so fast. Okay, then I'll go see him!" Tangning stood up and said.

When they came to the living room, they saw a tall, middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes greeted Tangning enthusiastically, "You are Mr. Tangning, I'm Matt Warner, I really like to read your writing with your wife. Yes, it is a great honor to be a neighbor with you!"

"Mr. Warner, you are so kind!" Tangning replied modestly.

"Mr. Tangning, I held a small reception at home tonight. I would like to invite you and some neighbors over. I hope you can give me a chance!" Warner invited.

Tangning felt that this invitation was normal. If she went to a new place, she would find a chance to get acquainted with the neighbors, so she nodded and agreed.

In the evening, Tangning brought Heidi to Warner's house, and found that several neighbors including Levine were there. It seemed that everyone was giving him face.

At this time, Levin came over and whispered to him: "Tony, our new neighbor may not be easy!"

"Oh? Why isn't it easy?" Tangning asked curiously.

Levine explained: "I remember that I heard a friend in Atlanta talk about this Mr. Warner before, but it's been a long time, so I can't remember, but I don't seem to be ordinary people!"

"Then you didn't ask your friend again?" Tangning asked.

"Didn't you just send him the letter this afternoon!" Levin spread his hands.

Then he changed the topic and asked, "By the way, Tony, are there any new works recently?"

"Didn't I just give you "The Chef's Murder", how could there be a new work so soon?" Tangning replied angrily.

Levine replied disapprovingly: "The Chef Murder has been published for almost a month, okay, and I heard that you didn't help a friend of Catherine find clues to the murder from a painting a few days ago. Well, what a good subject, why didn't you write it?"

Tangning stood up and replied, "First of all, this case is still in the process of being investigated, and it is reasonable to say that it cannot be written to interfere with the police's handling of the case; secondly, even if you write it, you must ask for permission from Miss Daisy first; thirdly, I am lazy. , I don't want to write recently!"

Originally, Levine wanted to argue one by one, but when he heard the third one, he was speechless: "Tony, you, you let me tell you what you want, other writers can't expect these materials from you, how wonderful you are Too lazy to write."

Then he asked: "Can I find someone to write it?"

"Just meet the first two. Actually, you don't need to ask for my opinion. After all, it's not my business!" Tangning shrugged and replied.

"Isn't this involving you? If I don't say hello to you, what if you hate me for this?" Levin explained.

"Hey, do you think I'm such a careful person?" Tangning asked a little displeased.

And Levin nodded and said, "It's not like you haven't lost your temper with me because of this kind of thing before!"

"Could the situation be the same as this time?" Tangning retorted.

Just as the two were arguing, Matt walked over and asked with a smile, "Mr. Tangning, Mr. Levine, what is this discussion about? It's so intense?"

"Oh, about the contract!" Levin replied casually.

"Oh, that's a big deal! We readers are all waiting for Mr. Tangning's new work!" Matt cheered.

Levin said along the way: "Look Tony, you can ignore my opinion, but you have to listen to the opinions of the readers!"

After all, she didn't know Matt, so Tangning had no choice but to perfunctorily say, "I'll adjust when I'm ready!"

Returning home after the reception, Heidi said to Tangning, "Tony, did you find this Mr. Warner a little weird!"

"Oh? You think he's weird too?" Tangning was a little surprised.

"Why do you think so too?"

Tangning shook her head and replied, "I didn't realize it. Levine told me." Tangning then repeated what Levine said to herself.

Then he asked: "What did you find out about him?"

"Isn't it obvious that there is no hostess in his house, but a housekeeper entertained us." Heidi replied.

Hearing Heidi's answer, Tangning suddenly realized. No wonder he always felt something was wrong at the reception just now. It turned out that there was no hostess, which was not normal. After all, Mr. Warner was at least 30 or 40 years old. of people.

"Uh, maybe his wife hasn't come over yet in Atlanta?" Tangning guessed.

"In that case, the reception should wait until his wife arrives!" Heidi retorted.

Tangning thought for a while, then nodded in agreement, "Uh, you're right. Under normal circumstances, you should meet the neighbors when the host and his wife are present."

"That's the truth, and we all feel that this Mr. Warner's relationship with the housekeeper is not normal! Maybe it's just like Creary before!" Heidi said again.

"You can't talk nonsense like this!" Tangning quickly reminded.

And Heidi replied nonchalantly: "I know, UU reading www.uukanshu.com I'm just telling you at home!"

Maybe it was because they drank a lot of wine at the reception, so after a while, Tangning felt that the wine was surging, so she went to sleep, but as soon as she lay down, Tangning suddenly recalled something and sat up immediately. , It happened that Heidi came in at this time and asked him with a smile, "Why are you not sleepy again?"

Tangning shook her head and replied, "I suddenly remembered something, I have to ask Mr. Warner!" As she spoke, she got up and put on her clothes.

Heidi stopped quickly and teased: "Are you crazy? How can you visit someone at this time, and you are not familiar with him!"

Tangning calmed down and thought about it, and it wasn't an urgent matter, so she nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go tomorrow!"

"By the way, what are you going to ask him about?" Heidi asked curiously.

"About a painting, this painting of his family is very wrong!" Tangning replied vaguely. It wasn't that he didn't want to make it clear to Heidi, but that he really couldn't make it clear!

ps: The updated version of Zhihu is so awkward to use, and it feels so stuck, making me unwilling to use it...