Chapter 5: Draculamore
(Thank you for the cold and health first!)
The medical team was very enthusiastic about his compatriots, even if Cao Mo came to entertain them, he was also very enthusiastic to help him do all the tests he could.
"A long drought is full of nectar, and the cave room is spent with candles" can probably describe the enthusiasm of the medical team to treat their compatriots in a foreign country.
At dusk, the last two reports came out, but none of them showed any abnormal symptoms, and all the numerical indicators checked were within the normal range, and the medical team even felt that it was a pity that Cao Mo could not stay in the hospital for two more days.
Cao Mo was discharged directly from the hospital and asked Kabuja to drive him and Song Yuqing back to the company dormitory.
The business of Dongsheng Group's West Africa Branch in Draculamo in the early stage is mainly to develop agents and promote the sales of the company's building profiles and other products in Kanem and even the entire West African region.
As the old capital of Kanem, European merchant ships entered Draculamo to set up trading posts before the middle of the 16th century.
By the middle of the 17th century, it had become a center of slavery throughout West Africa.
During the heyday of the slave trade, which was dominated by white Europeans and Americans, more than two million local blacks were brutally trafficked from Draculamo to the American continent.
Cao Mo was idle in Draculamo, visiting major BBs in China, and seeing which troll admired foreigners and licked foreigners with high morals, he couldn't wait to stick Kanem's dark history on the other party's face.
At the end of the eighteenth century, Kanem became a British colony, and Draculamo, as the capital of the British Kanem colony, can be said to have developed in a deformed way.
Even though the tribes such as Ibogu, sixty or seventy kilometers away, are as barren as an uncivilized primitive land, as the old capital of Kanem, the economic and commercial center of the past, and the most prosperous port city in West Africa, Draculamo at this time more or less shows the prosperous atmosphere of a modern city.
In particular, Salt Lake Island, which is now the commercial center of Draculamo, is a modern place of high-rise buildings and has a viaduct connecting it to the islands of Ikoi and Victoria to the west and the mainland to the north.
The Dongsheng Group could have rented a modern office building on Saltlake Island as office space, but Yang Deshan finally decided to choose the location of the branch office in the Kennett Building in the West Bank District.
During the colonial era, local blacks who served or were enslaved by the colonizers at that time lived mainly in the coastal areas of the mainland west of Salt Lake Island.
On this basis, the urban area that has developed one after another is the West Bank District, which is currently the most extensive and densely populated area in Draculamo.
For three to four hundred years, the West Bank has also been synonymous with Draculamo's ghetto, or chaos, poverty, backwardness, and endless violence and fraud.
As Draculamo grows, the West Bank has built spacious, flat roads and some modern high-rise buildings, but the urban area is fragmented, old and chaotic due to the interplay with the crowded slums dominated by tin shant buildings.
The West Bank is at least less safe than the commercial center of Salt Lake Island, the wealthy Ikoi Island, and the Victoria Island district, which is the embassy district.
However, in the past two or three years, Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises have successively entered Draculamo for development, as well as a small number of overseas Chinese who moved to Draculamo from Hong Kong and other places to settle in the sixties at the earliest, are mainly concentrated in the Kennett Building under the West Island Bridge in the West Bank District and the surrounding areas.
Just after getting off the plane and arriving in Draculamo City more than a year ago, he encountered the experience of armed robbery, and with the idea of huddling together to keep warm, Yang Deshan decided to choose the office location of the branch in Kennett Building.
The dormitory where Cao Mo, Guo Jian, and Song Yuqing live is located in a residential community behind the Kennett Building, which is a small English-style villa.
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When Cao Mo and the others drove back from the hospital, the community was pitch black, and a few dull gunshots could be heard in the distance.
In Draculamo for more than a year, Cao Mo has developed immunity to the gunfire that comes from time to time in the city, but this sultry night, without electricity, is really unbearable.
Several neighboring Chinese businessmen and employees of Chinese enterprises in this community are discussing raising funds to buy a diesel-electric generator.
However, the generator was running with a loud noise, and no one wanted to put it in their rented building, but there was no special equipment room available, so the matter was put on hold for the time being.
"You don't have anything?"
Yang Deshan, general manager of the West Africa branch, as an old man who worked hard with the old chairman Ding Xuesheng in the early days of Dongsheng Group, is only in his early forties this year, with a medium build, the top of his head has been sparse enough to clearly see the scalp, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, his body is slightly blessed, and some fat has accumulated on his cheeks and neck, which looks a little clumsy.
The restaurant is lit with candles and the light is still bright.
Yang Deshan and Guo Jian were sitting at the dining table discussing things, and when they saw Cao Mo and Song Yuqing walking in, they looked at Cao Mo several times, and their faces were a little uncertain.
"There's nothing going on now......"
Cao Mo knew that he didn't seem to have any abnormal symptoms at this time, and he didn't even have a sense of weakness after recovering from a serious illness, Yang Deshan probably suspected that Guo Jian's previous report was exaggerated, but Yang Deshan's face was cloudy, and Cao Mo had an urge to take off the boots that he had not changed for a few days to cover his face.
However, Cao Mo has nothing to worry about, if he wants to explain, it is Guo Jian and Yang Deshan who explain.
Who called Guo Jian his direct supervisor?
If he doesn't carry this pot, will he smash it?
Since there were no surprises, Yang Deshan next unceremoniously counted Guo Jian and Cao Mo to go out with the company's car on their rest days.
Song Yuqing was regarded as being affected by the pond fish, and was reprimanded by Yang Deshan for failing to fulfill his duty of supervision; Cao Mogou was there, and watching Song Yuqing's reprimand of Yang Deshan was just listening.
Of course, Cao Mo felt a little strange in his heart.
The West Africa branch, including Yang Deshan, has only four employees dispatched from China, but there is a clear hierarchy.
Yang Deshan is the general manager in charge of the branch, Guo Jian is the head of marketing and administration, Cao Mo is the miscellaneous role, and Song Yuqing, as a full-time treasurer, is an employee sent by the group's finance department.
Although he is such a small person, if there is anything, Yang Deshan directly orders Guo Jian every time, and rarely pays attention to Cao Mo.
The private use of the bus, even if Yang Deshan is dissatisfied, usually speaking, he will only knock Guo Jian in private.
Intuition told Cao Mo that Yang Deshan's unhappiness at this time was not because he felt that Guo Jian was exaggerating, nor was he really worried that his employees would have an accident, making it difficult for him to explain to the group.
Of course, Yang Deshan has always thought that he was a victim of the company's struggle, so he was sent to Africa, he is usually very slack, and he stays in China most of the time, even if he goes to Draculamo every two or three months, he looks like no one wants to mess with him.
Now that Yang Deshan is like this, Cao Mo really doesn't know if it's his usual stinky temper, or if he has encountered something else.
Speaking of sending Draculamo, Cao Mo didn't know what it was like for Guo Jian, who was worried about the possibility of collusion with his wife in China, anyway, he was very comfortable.
Three years ago, he came out of the detention center, his family had no income, and he was not the kind of phoenix man who could make his sister drop out of school and work for him to study, so he went directly to Dongsheng as a mechanic.
He was able to get the opportunity to send Draculamo a year ago, and his salary plus allowances was three times higher than if he stayed in China, and the company was responsible for food and lodging, so there was really nothing to be dissatisfied with.
"Although the company doesn't pay attention to this, but with the salary given by the company, at least you can't do anything unmanageable in Draculamo. Besides, if something really happens to you, the company will make some compensation in the end, and there won't be much loss if someone else comes over, but what about your family?" Yang Deshan still thought that he had just three or two shrimp soldiers and shrimp generals in his hand, and after a lesson, his tone went back to show that he was down, mainly concerned about the personal safety of Guo Jian and Cao Mo.
Cao Mo sat on the side, noticing that when Yang Deshan spoke, his eyes flashed to the white tenderness that Song Yuqing's neckline revealed from time to time.
Cao Mote hated Yang Deshan's greedy but serious appearance, and of course he didn't mind glancing at that white tenderness.
Dracula is full of black girls, and Song Yuqing, who can have eighty points in the country, is really eye-catching.
Well, that's fragrant.
Song Yuqing's eyes seemed to be empty, but her arms were hung down at her sides, and the muscles in her armpits contracted slightly, making her chest more erect through this small movement.
Although Song Yuqing subconsciously made this little action and didn't look at anyone, her intuition told Cao Mo that he was the drooling greedy man in Song Yuqing's eyes, and he didn't mind showing off to him.
What a hell of a day.
Although Cao Mo has always paid attention to observing the changes in other people's expressions and subtle movements on his body, he is not as direct and sharp as he is today, and he is about to catch up with telepathy......