CEO Overlord Love: Contract Lover

She put Pooh on the stool and poured a glass of water into her hand.

Pooh looked up at her with terrified green eyes, and a huge tear slipped down his cheeks.

"Pooh, when I was rich, I could treat you like a princess and tolerate all your arrogance and coquettishness. But when I was poor, I don't want you to still have the little temper you used to have!"

After hearing this, Pooh nodded aggrievedly, then took the water glass in her hand, and drank obediently.

Mengyao patted her on the head in relief, and just when she wanted to say something to Pooh to comfort her, there was a knock on the door.

"Ma'am, I'm back!" It was Laban who knocked on the door.

"Come in." Mengyao replied blankly, and then put Pooh on another stool.

Laban pushed the door open, and then reported to her: "Madam, the black slaves have already uprooted all the coffee trees as you said, and they will probably be able to pull them all out tomorrow and plant new ones!"

"Well, very good." Mengyao nodded in satisfaction, and then asked him, "Laban, how long have you been working here?"

"Ma'am, I have been working here since I was a child, and my mother is also a black slave." **** replied humbly.

"Oh?" Mengyao raised her eyebrows with some curiosity, and asked him, "There are all black people here, why are you of mixed race? And you can speak English well?"

"Madam." Laban made a embarrassed expression, and then replied, "Madam, you don't know. My father is Mr. Gurdon, and he taught me a few sentences of my English occasionally."

"What? Your father is Gordon?" Mengyao's expression was disbelieving.

"Yes, ma'am, it's really a joke." Laban's face was somewhat embarrassed and embarrassed.

Mengyao paused and did not continue this topic.

She always thought that the farmer raped the black slave and gave birth to a child, it was just a rumor.

Unexpected to see it with my own eyes today.

What a shame!

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"Laban, since you know a little English, teach those black slaves outside, otherwise I can't communicate with them at all." Mengyao changed the subject.

"Madam, how is this possible? Those black slaves can't write, how can they learn English?" Laban looked puzzled.

Mengyao nodded, and felt that what he said was quite reasonable.

"Then since they can't learn English, you can teach me your native language."

"No, ma'am! How can you learn such lowly words and lower your status!" Laban quickly refused.

"There's nothing that can't be done! In my world, I'm the only one who is willing, and I'm not willing!" Mengyao glanced at him coldly, her tone extremely firm.

"Yes, ma'am." Laban was trembling with fear from her, and quickly agreed.

"En." Mengyao nodded in satisfaction, and then said to him, "Laban, you can teach me some daily sentences first, as for other difficult ones, I will talk about them later."

"Oh, ma'am, the aboriginal language is actually quite easy to learn, much easier than English!"

"Well, let's start now."

"Okay, ma'am." A trace of embarrassment and embarrassment flashed across Laban's face, and it took him a long time to speak the first sentence of the native language to teach her.

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Before I knew it, it was already night.

After studying for a day, Mengyao also roughly understood sixty or seventy sentences of commonly used aboriginal language.

"Let's learn so much first, it's getting late." Mengyao interrupted Laban's next sentence.

"Yes, ma'am." Laban agreed quickly, and sat quietly on the stool.

"Laban, you have been here for so many years, you should know what kind of plants can be grown here?" Mengyao looked at Laban and asked him.

"Yes, ma'am, I know something." Laban nodded, and then said what he knew, "Madam, the temperature here is very dry and hot, and ordinary plants can't grow at all. You can only grow some heat-resistant ones." like coffee, avocado, cotton, etc."

"No, what we are facing now is how to solve the problem of food and clothing. The plants you mentioned are of no use to us!"

"I also understand this truth, but ma'am, the environment here is like this. If you grow rice and paddy rice, you can't support it at all!" Laban looked embarrassed.

Mengyao took a deep breath, and then replied: "Laban, you should go back to sleep first, I will think about it myself."

"Madam, how is this possible?" Laban declined.

"There's nothing wrong with it. If I can't even feed you and watch you starve to death, what right do you have to respect me as your wife!"

"Ma'am?" Laban burst into tears with emotion, and suddenly covered his face and began to cry bitterly.

Mengyao didn't expect that he would burst into tears suddenly, completely at a loss.

Laban also felt that he was rude, and quickly touched his eyes with his black hands, and then spoke to her with a choked voice.

"Madam, I'm so sorry to make you laugh. It's just that Madam, you really moved me. Over the years, no one has ever regarded us as human beings. Only Madam, you are willing to regard our life and death so seriously." Important, I...I, ma'am..." Laban began to cry again as he spoke.

Mengyao frowned, looking at the boy who was only fourteen or fifteen years old opposite her.

Recalling her age, she seemed to be still in junior high school.

Although the life is not rich, it can be regarded as a stable life.

Kolaban, the same age.

But live such a miserable life.

It's really a pity.

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"Okay, go back to sleep, if you want to repay me, repay me with practical actions, not with these useless tears."

"Yes, ma'am."

Laban broke down in tears, stood up tremblingly, walked to the door, and closed the door of the hut.

Mengyao looked at the back of him leaving, feeling melancholy in her heart.

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After Laban left, she walked to the window of the hut and looked at the scene outside.

In this kind of place, the most beautiful thing is the sky.

The clearly visible Milky Way and the sea of ​​stars all over the sky are like dreams and illusions, ethereal and uncertain.

It was as if she was in the universe, which was spectacular.

At this moment, she really couldn't think of any words to describe her own mood.

Hundreds of lives are in her hands.

Tomorrow, any decision she made would be related to the life and death of hundreds of black slaves, as well as her own life.

Such a great sense of responsibility really made it difficult for her to sleep peacefully.

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Mengyao looked closely at the starry sky, but her mind wandered to other places.

What should she plant in this dry land?

How can she ensure that she and hundreds of black slaves will not starve to death in vain before the war ends?

rice?

Impossible, there is not even a drop of water here, so what kind of rice is there to grow!

peanut?

Peanuts have good heat resistance, but unfortunately, peanuts cannot be used as a staple food because they are too difficult to digest. If you eat them for a long time, the harm will outweigh the benefits.

potato?

corn?

sugar cane?

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Mengyao stood by the window and thought for a long time, and finally settled on the corn and sugar cane.

Everything seems to be ready.

Just wait for tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a new day.

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