"Drive~drive~" A crisp girl's voice came, and then a tall jujube red horse ran on the road, and immediately the two bright girls left a string of laughter like silver bells.

"You two girls slow down, or you won't be allowed to ride horses again from tomorrow!" Marlin was riding on a black horse, yelling in annoyance as he chased it, and behind his horse's buttocks, there were large bags of stuff.

"Got it, the third brother is really annoying!" Ma Xiaoyu, who was responsible for controlling the horses on the jujube red horse, also shouted with some annoyance, and at the same time grabbed the reins with both hands, causing the beloved horse under him to slow down. And sitting in front of Ma Xiaoyu was Thea from the Americas. Thea's father, Sam, was finally moved by Marin's words and agreed to join the Ma family's plantation as an honorable overseer, Thea's mother was responsible for cooking for the overseers and slaves, and Thea herself naturally came with her.

Now Thea is wearing a light blue long Han-style dress, which looks similar to an ordinary Han girl, but her skin is slightly darker, and her lips are fuller, which looks more exotic.

Since moving to the Ma family plantation, Ma Xiaoyu finally has a playmate of the same age, and soon became good friends with Thea who talks about everything. Xiaoyu has an active personality and usually likes to ride horses, so with Thea's friend, it is natural to pull her together.

However, Thea saw a horse for the first time, because in her hometown in the Americas, horses had long been extinct, and when she heard Xiaoyu let herself ride on the horse, she was even more frightened and retreated, no matter what Xiaoyu said, she didn't dare to step forward. In the end, it was Xiaoyu who rode a horse and ran a few laps in front of her. This convinced Caithea that the monster named Horse in front of her could really ride.

Speaking of which, Thea used to be in the tribe. I often go up the mountain to climb trees and go down to the river with my friends to fish, and my body is also very flexible and vigorous, but in the matter of horseback riding, I obviously have no talent, and I haven't been able to learn it after learning with Xiaoyu for a long time, and I even fell off the horse once.

But this is not difficult for the smart Xiaoyu, she finally decided that in the future, the two of them will ride the same horse, so that Xiaoyu will support Thea on the horse. Don't worry about her falling down again, Thea also agrees with Xiaoyu's method, which can be regarded as a small agreement between the two girls.

Today's weather is good, Ma Xiaoyu and Thea originally planned to go on a picnic, but they happened to meet Ma Lin going out to Coconut City to buy vegetable seeds, but these two girls pestered Ma Lin to go, and in the end Ma Lin really had no choice but to take them into the city, and as a result, he bought seeds became secondary. Instead, the two girls bought a bunch of snacks and clothes, and put them all on his horse, which is the opening scene.

After being reprimanded by her brother, Ma Xiaoyu didn't dare to be naughty anymore. Just sit right away and talk to Thea. Although Thea has been in Coconut City for a few days, it is the first time she has gone to the street to buy something, so she is also very excited. The two girls chattered non-stop, which also added a little more vitality to the boring road.

The Ma family's plantation is five miles away in the southern suburbs of Coconut City. It didn't take long to get on the horse, and it was quite close. Some of the other plantations are generally 10 miles away from Coconut City, and some are even 30 miles away.

Speaking of which, before the outbreak of the plague in Java, the Javanese people were quite hostile to the Han people, and later because of the plague, the native people of Java were very rare, but occasionally there will be some wandering native people, these native people will cause some harm to the coconut city, and they naturally dare not attack a city like Coconut City, so the plantation outside the city is naturally their best target, and the farther away the plantation from the city, the greater the risk.

However, correspondingly, since people dare to open plantations so far away from the city, they generally have corresponding force, so unless it is a special case, it is rare for the planting industry to be attacked by the natives.

The Ma family's plantation is on the edge of the city, so it is very safe, which is why Marin dares to take the two girls to Coconut City alone, and they ride through a small forest, and soon a huge plantation appears in front of them.

The Ma family's plantation is the largest plantation in the entire coconut city, with thousands of slaves and tens of thousands of acres of huge land, in this plantation, there are mainly three kinds of crops, the first is the rubber tree that has just been planted for a short time, because the tree is too young, so it has not produced for the time being.

The other is coffee, this emerging drink came from the big cannibals, and quickly swept the upper nobles of Daqi and the Tang Dynasty, the coffee that was originally needed was imported from the big food, but the Ma family boldly introduced the planting of coffee trees, and now it has been successfully planted, but the coffee trees also take three years to bear fruit, so like rubber trees, there is no output for the time being.

The last one is the main source of income for the Ma family now, and it is also the plant that requires the most slaves, that is, sugarcane, and the Ma family not only grows sugarcane, but also uses sugarcane to make wine, and even this sugarcane wine has registered a trademark and become the signature product of the Ma family. In addition, the Ma family also planted a lot of vegetables, mainly to supply the needs of Coconut City, as a supplement to the family income, this time he went to the city to buy some seeds of tomatoes native to the Americas to try to plant.

The gate of Ma's plantation is very simple, and it can even be said that there is no gate at all, and the entire boundary of the plantation has been planted with coconut trees by the Ma family, but the planting time is too short, so it looks short, and it is estimated that it will take at least another four or five years to grow into tall coconut trees. The gate of the so-called plantation is actually a gap of more than ten meters wide between two transplanted tall coconut trees, and there is a smooth cement road leading to the gate of Ma's Manor in the center of the plantation.

Although the Ma family's plantation is very close to the coconut city, there is generally no danger, but just in case, the Ma family built a fortress-like Ma manor in the center of the plantation, with a tall and strong outer wall to resist general attacks, and there are corner towers around the city wall, and there will be people patrolling the corner towers every night, which is also a common practice in Javanese plantations.

After the Ma brothers and sisters entered the plantation, they did not take the cement road, but turned the horse's head and ran along the grass next to the manor, mainly because the cement road was too hard, and if you ride a horse on this road, the iron horseshoe will grind very quickly, and it may even hurt the horse's hooves. The horses of their brother and sister are all BMW transported from the Western Regions, and it is said that they also have the bloodline of sweat and blood BMW, and both of them have always cherished it very much, so they usually pay special attention to some small details.

Just as the three of them rode through a ripe sugar cane forest, they happened to see a group of hundreds of slaves under the supervision of several overseers, waving machetes in their hands to harvest sugar cane quickly. Thea happened to see her father, who was now one of the overseers, and was talking to another overseer.

Seeing her father, Thea seemed very happy, and immediately asked Ma Xiaoyu to stop, then jumped off the horse and ran to Marin's side, and took out a beautiful glass bottle from the baggage behind him, which was a pale green liquid, which was the insect repellent water that Thea bought in Coconut City today.

For Thea, these Americans, everything in Java is good, but the weather is too hot, and there are many mosquitoes at the same time, Sam is supervising the work outside, and he is bitten by mosquitoes almost every day when he goes home, and the careful Thea has already inquired about Ma Xiaoyu, knowing that after this kind of insect repellent water is smeared on the body, there is no need to worry about mosquito bites, so after entering the city, she bought a few bottles of insect repellent water first.

Sam also saw his daughter at this time, and immediately showed a loving smile to greet him, he was very satisfied with his current life, the work of the overseer was very easy, every day was to follow the slaves, watch them not let them be lazy, and every few days, their overseers also had to act as a guard, and at night they were on duty on the corner tower, and there was nothing else to do, and there was food and lodging in the plantation, which was something he could not have imagined when he was in the Americas.

Thea handed the insect repellent water to her father, and then helped her father apply it to his face, neck and other bare skin, and then said goodbye to Sam, and rode back to Ma's manor with Ma Xiaoyu.

After returning to the manor where they lived, Ma Lin helped them send the things they bought to the yard where Ma Xiaoyu lived, because in the entire manor, only Thea and Ma Xiaoyu were the same age, and the two girls were also very compatible, plus Ma Xiaoyu was a little scared to live alone, so most of the time, Thea would live here with Ma Xiaoyu.

The two girls first sorted the things they bought, and then quarreled for a while, and finally Thea took the things she bought for her parents out of the yard, and then came to a row of courtyards on the north side of the manor, where the overseers lived, and Thea's parents naturally lived here, but now the sun had just set, and it was estimated that they were all eating in the dining hall, so there was no one at home at all.

Thea put her things at home, and then came to the dining hall, just in time for the meal, this canteen is very large, except for the people of the Ma family, most of the people up and down the plantation eat here, and if you look closely, you will find a very interesting thing, that is, in the canteen, the overseers and slaves talk and laugh, and some of them sit together to eat, not in the slightest as the people are like each other.

In fact, in the beginning, the life of the slaves was still very miserable, such as the original sugarcane plantations in Taiwan, the slaves in it were working under the whips of the overseers, and if they were not careful, they would be beaten, and even killed.

But later, with the expansion of Li Su's territory, slaves were needed everywhere, so the price of slaves also increased, and the death of one was a big loss, so the people who owned slaves had to make changes, although the management of slaves was still very strict, but in terms of life, it was raised to a level similar to that of ordinary people. (To be continued......)