"There are still a few villas in the back that are empty, if you rent them tomorrow, I'll help you contact ......"

In addition to asking Cao Mo to recommend a cook from Yibo Ancient Village to take over Lucy's work, Song Yuqing also did not forget to remind Cao Mo to rent her office and residence nearby as soon as possible.

After the incident like Yibo Ancient Village, even if Song Yuqing stood with Yang Deshan and Guo Jian at that time, she mainly wanted to keep her job, but she knew very well in her heart that Guo Jian was not trustworthy.

The community they live in is open, and the security environment in Dracula is not optimistic, Song Yuqing thought to herself, even if Cao Mo will not stay in Dracula for too much time in the future, but Lucy, who has been with each other for nearly a year and is full of vigor, can live nearby, and if she really needs to ask for help in any case, she will usually feel more at ease.

"......" Cao Mo patted his forehead.

Kanem's economy is backward, but building materials are extremely expensive, so housing and rent are not cheap.

It is still outside the island of Salt Lake and Ikoyi, where the wealthy class live, but the community environment is relatively good, close to the strait, and the monthly rent of a small villa is 400 US dollars, equivalent to more than 3,000 yuan.

However, if he really wants to have a foothold in Draculamo, even if it is for his own safety, he will not go to the slums to find cheap housing.

After Song Yuqing's hair was dried with a towel, Lucy had already prepared dinner at this time.

There was no one else, so Cao Mo asked Lucy to accompany him and Song Yuqing to dinner.

When Cao Mo said that Sterna would come over to take her job as a cook and rent a villa nearby tomorrow, Lucy's brow furrowed.

Although Lucy's subtle expression was not obvious under the hidden chocolate-colored complexion, Cao Mo still keenly caught it and said to her:

"Although renting a villa nearby will allow you to take good care of the place, it will not be good for your future development. Don't worry, I won't treat you and Kabuja badly for your salary. You should also have a broader vision for your career planning, I feel that the situation in Kanem has been relatively stable in the past two years, and it should develop step by step in the future......"

Song Yuqing still felt that Cao Mo said this very abruptly, but when she saw that Lucy lowered her head a little ashamedly, she looked at Cao Mo strangely.

She didn't notice that Lucy was unwilling, how could Cao Mo see that Lucy still wanted to work as a cook here?

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At the back of the side of the residence, there is an empty two-storey villa.

The next day was a working day, but Song Yuqing did not go to the office.

The two local employees were pulled by Guo Jian to Longta to do private work, and if there was something that needed to be dealt with in the office, Song Yuqing was usually not happy to go to the office alone, and preferred to stay with Lucy.

Song Yuqing went to Draculamo to take charge of finances, and she took over the subsequent lease renewal of the villa and the Kennett Building office - this time she directly helped Cao Mo contact the owner of the villa, and made an appointment to see the house together in the afternoon.

It is said that it is a villa, in fact, it is similar to a private building in China, and the interior decoration is relatively simple, but it is much better than the iron house in the poor cave and the grass shed in the countryside of Longta.

The rent was slightly cheaper than Cao Mo expected, but it was also limited.

"This villa is just right, you can stand on the balcony and see the back window of my room. Song Yuqing saw that Cao Mo was a little hesitant, and encouraged him to say.

"If you sleep without the curtains, I'll rent it. Cao Mo joked.

"How old are you, and you still want to take advantage of me, believe it or not, I'll clean you up?" Song Yuqing glanced at Cao Mo and stretched out her hand to fight.

"You mentioned the window first. Cao Mo said.

"I mean close to each other, just shout something, where do you want to go?" Song Yuqing said.

Seeing Song Yuqing's angry look, as if the old thing that had colluded with him had not happened, Cao Mo was speechless: Why are women so fickle?

Or did she think that her mind was not being spied on, so she should not exist?

"Looking at the way you are about to move, are you looking for a girlfriend?" Song Yuqing stared at Cao Mo's eyes and asked very seriously.

"Isn't it inappropriate for us to talk about this topic?" Cao Mo protested.

"Excuse me? The proprietress of Huajun Hotel, recently brought her sister to Draculamo to help, a very delicate girl, very worthy of your age. If you have to think about it, I can help you invite people over for dinner tonight......" Song Yuqing looked like someone who had come over, and gave advice for Cao Mo.

Although Cao Mo has seen the proprietress of Huajun Hotel, in addition to being a little rich, her appearance is quite good, and she thinks that if her sister is not crooked, she should not be ugly, but he still has the stubbornness of this age, and he has to rely on others to introduce him to find a girlfriend?

Cao Mo pursed his lips, indicating that he was not interested, and he didn't have the energy and time to please a girl of the same age now.

"That's a pretty good girl, you can think about it. Song Yuqing persuaded without giving up.

"Go, go, go, get down to business first......" Cao Mo pushed Song Yuqing back to the bedroom, nodded to Lucy, who was negotiating with the landlord, and motioned for her to come forward to sign the lease and take the right to use this small building temporarily.

Cao Mo and Song Yuqing went upstairs and downstairs again, thinking about how to arrange the arrangement.

On the second floor, there are two bedrooms and a semi-open living room.

Lucy had been married a long time ago, but she had a strong personality, did not get along well with her husband's other two wives, and did not have children, so she divorced her husband three years ago and moved back to her parents' house.

Lucy's parents' house is just three blocks away, which is quite close, but in the slums.

Cao Mo and Buja had been to Lucy's parents' house, and what impressed them the most was that the extremely narrow alleys were filled with sewage, crowded with simple tin houses, and it was difficult to even turn around when they walked into Lucy's bedroom full of clutter.

Therefore, Lucy no longer works as a cook and live-in nanny, and even if she can commute to work like a normal employee, Cao Mo still wants to leave another bedroom for her to live in......

Cao Mo sat on a slightly musty cloth sofa.

Renting this villa, he gave himself a place to settle in Draculamo, and then asked Lucy to watch, follow up on the progress of the gold mine's equipment procurement from Draculamo and domestic manufacturers, and maintain contact with Xie Sipeng's Victoria Gold Company.

In fact, Lucy doesn't have too many things to deal with, more like his personal assistant who stayed in Draculamo, but since there is such a point, and Lucy is always here, he should make better use of it.

It's just that apart from the Ibogu gold mine project, what else can he do at Draculamo, and he can't do it with the Ibogu gold mine project in a way that distracts his energy and funds?

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Song Yuqing walked downstairs, wanting to ask Cao Mo how to arrange his own room, she could help with advice, and saw Cao Mo sitting on the sofa in the living room with one leg crossed under his buttocks, looking like a big boy, but he frowned and thought about things, and showed maturity that did not match his age.

At this time, a ray of evening sunlight shone in from the window and fell on Cao Mo's face, Cao Mo just frowned subconsciously, but he was too engrossed in thinking about things, and he didn't think about avoiding direct sunlight.

In the past, as a colleague, even if she was overseas and under the same roof, Song Yuqing rarely looked at Cao Mo carefully, which would be very rude and too deliberately ambiguous - except for that irrepressible impulse, she really didn't think about having an extramarital affair with a boy who was four years younger than herself, but at this moment, Cao Mo was directly illuminated by the sunset at dusk, as if a quiet painting was frozen there, which made her stunned.

Song Yuqing had always known that Cao Mo was a handsome big boy, but only at this moment did she notice that the bridge of his nose was so straight, and the contour lines formed by the eyebrow bone were clear, concave and convex, with a sculpted beauty, and his thin cheeks were tougher than those of a young man of his age.

Cao Mo kept thinking about things, and didn't notice that Song Yuqing was looking at her, or Song Yuqing came back to her senses after a while, and in order to suppress the little bit of shock and shame in her heart, she opened her mouth and asked Cao Mo:

"What are you thinking?"

"Huh?" Cao Mo looked up and saw Song Yuqing standing at the top of the stairs, and then saw Lucy also coming down the stairs, and said back to his senses, "I didn't think about anything......

He was counting on Lucy to stay in Draculamo, but he didn't want Lucy to know that he didn't know what he could do next with this place.

Of course, one principle is certain.

At least for him, there is still a lot of potential for the Ebogu gold mine to be tapped, and he should not have to divert his energy and limited funds from the Ibogu gold mine when he has no capital.

Maybe he needs a change in his thinking?

Single-mindedly thinking about using domestic products as agents and selling them to the Kanem market may not be suitable for his actual situation at this time, but what about tapping the exploitable resources of the ancient village of Yibo and even the Longta area and supplying them to Draculamo or even China?

In addition to the gold mines, there are still a lot of resources that can be exploited and mined in the Longta area, and the raw materials for the production of cement are very rich, such as logs, large areas of planted palm groves, and cocoa trees.

Palm palm oil extraction and cocoa bean exports are currently cash crops of some size in the Lunta region, but they are largely monopolized by wealthy local planters.

Even if Yibo Ancient Village can still free up a large area of land to grow palm and cocoa, it will take five or six years of growth cycle before it can bear fruit and harvest, which is obviously not something Cao Mo has the ability to do at this time.

Elsewhere in Kanem, especially in the middle reaches of the Niger River, felled logs are now one of the main commodities exported to Kanem, which is currently the second largest exporter of logs in Africa.

However, the traffic conditions in Lunta are too bad.

There is an estuary to the Antlers River, but there is only a small fishing port at the estuary, and it is unrealistic to export logs from there.

The largest seaport in Kanem and in the whole of West Africa is Draculamo, but logs from the northern part of the village of Ibogu are better to be exported directly from the eastern part of Oyo State, that is, from the mouth of the sea in the upper reaches of the Ogun River in Draculamo.

Nor should he be distracted from doing at this time.

Production of cement?

These days, Cao Mo is crazy about infrastructure construction in the mines, and Cao Mo has really stimulated the soaring price of cement, but the problem is that the electricity in Longta Town is extremely weak, where is how much electricity is used for the production of the cement industry?

The last time Cao Mo returned to Draculamo, he specially checked the energy consumption of cement produced by small cement enterprises.

Cement production is definitely a large energy consumer, and the production of one ton of cement requires more than 100 degrees of electricity.

Longta can't provide additional industrial electricity, so it's impossible to use diesel power generation units, right?

How terrible the cost of equipment investment and daily diesel consumption of diesel units is!