The sea wharf, the water transport is accessible, and the ships meet.

At dusk, another giant freighter loaded with coal entered the harbor with a whistle.

After a day's work, the stevedores were already extremely tired, and they were sitting on the ground resting in twos and threes.

The work of loading and unloading coal ash is tiring, but if there are fewer coal ships coming into the port on this day, they can rest a little longer.

As it is today, there are not many cases of getting off four ships in a row, but they are occasionally encountered.

Many of the workers were exhausted, and their hearts were a little apprehensive and their hearts raced when they heard the coal truck horn as they entered the port. But when the ship is docked, it must be unloaded.

The owner of the transportation company they worked for was a stingy guy, similar to the guy in the book who couldn't close his eyes and couldn't breathe even if he lit an extra lamp grass.

I heard that other companies have long eliminated the manual handling, and installed a coal loader in the operation area, and only workers need to put the coal on the conveyor belt when loading the ship, and the conveyor belt can directly transport the coal from the dock to the ship.

It's the same with coal unloading, but the conveyor belt is in a different direction.

Like them, they still rely on manpower to load coal, in teams of two, one flat burden, one big basket and two shovels, to hoe coal on the coal stack, hoe the basket and then carry it to the ship, the sincerity has no semicolon, and the family is alone.

They hoeed and hoeed and loaded themselves every day, and carried coal back and forth on the wharf.

A large basket full of coal, the flat stretcher is bent, the flat stretcher is on the shoulders of the workers, and the hand hoe is carried on the shoulders, and it takes thousands of times to go back and forth in a shift.

After a few days, the workers were full of blisters, their shoulders were worn out by the flat shoulders, the flesh was broken, and they were all scabbed, and they were swollen and painful to the touch, but everyone gritted their teeth, and no one said a word of discouragement, and they ate five meals a day.

The ship that docked this time was a coal ship with a load of nearly 10,000 tons, all of which were carried by manpower, and the workers had to work overtime for more than ten hours to finish the goods.

Ning Mo stood on the second floor of a small building on the dock, looking at the workers below who gritted their teeth and picked up the flat basket and the iron rope with pity, and felt indescribably uncomfortable.

Kong Yiqing looked at him with a look of unbearability, and a complicated and incomprehensible smile suddenly appeared on his face.

What's unbearable?

It's not easy to survive.

"Our ship will enter the port tomorrow at half past twelve at noon, and hopefully these workers will be able to unload the cargo by half past twelve tomorrow. Otherwise, our departure will be delayed again. ”

Listening to Kong Yiqing's understatement, Ning Mo regretted it for the first time in his heart, maybe it was not a good idea for him to choose to follow Kong Yiqing abroad.

Even if you find a remote place that no one knows about and live here, it may be better than going to a foreign country like this and relating to such an aunt who has no compassion every day.

At the same time, he felt a little strange.

The aunt who writes him a lot of letters, sends a lot of gifts, and gives him a lot of pocket money every year, why is it so different when they meet?

How could such an aunt write those warm letters?

Those letters can give birth to a kind of warmth at a glance, like a spring breeze and feeling.

The aunt in the letter is different from the aunt who has been with her for a few days, and even the aunt in front of her family in the capital.

How can a person have so many appearances?

Which one is the real her?

This small second floor also belongs to Kong Yiqing's property, and over the years, although she has been outside, she has not lost these properties at home and has kept them.

After Kong Yiqing fell asleep, Ning Mo quietly covered the door and went downstairs, walked to the dock, and stood among the busy workers.

The closer I got, the clearer I can see, many of the workers have a thick layer of callus on their shoulders, but even if they are used to picking such a familiar handicraft, the skin on the shoulders is faintly bleeding at this time.

Ning Mo sighed, and suddenly turned around and walked to the warehouse area on the side.

After about half an hour, he found a few people, dragged a few truckloads of metal sheets, and came back again.

The tree pole was fitted with pulleys, a winch, and the pickpocket pole was fixed to the dock.

Workers come and go carrying their burdens, occasionally glancing at them with curiosity.

What is this young man doing here?

When Ning Mo asked people to wrap the rope half an arm's thick around the pulley, and demonstrated it again, and only one person stood on the side of the pole and kept rolling the rope, and lifted hundreds of pounds of things, all the workers were stunned.

Ning Mo tried and tested several times, and after making sure that this thing was good, he asked those workers to find a container that could hold many, many goods.

The workers rushed to tell each other, and after a while, they found a thickened sail that was dozens of meters long and more than ten meters wide.

At first, they were all a little cautious, only piling five or six hundred catties of coal on it, and then pulling the corners of the cloth, winding and sealing it with steel wire, and then hanging it on the rope thrown by Ning Mo and tying it tightly.

Ning Mo shouted: "Pull! ”

The thin boy sitting under the lever energetically wrapped the rope around the winch, and as the rope was tightened and the pulley was activated, the more than 500 catties of coal ash on the ship were lifted up and easily arrived on the wharf.

Ning Mo asked the three people to turn the lever in a different direction, and the thin boy guarding the winch began to slowly loosen the tightly wrapped rope, and when the cloth was wrapped on the ground, someone took pliers to twist the sealed steel wire, and dozens of workers swarmed up, grabbed one end of the cloth and lifted it hard, and the coal slowly fell to the unloading area.

Seeing that this thing is so good, the workers are very happy, the second time began to increase the size, and finally after several rounds of tests, it was concluded that the maximum load of this cloth is 1,000 catties, that is, one ton.

There are nearly 10,000 tons of charcoal on this ship, and if you rely on manpower in the past, one person can pick up to 150 catties, walk down from the ship, pass through the dock, and then pour it out of the cargo area, and it will take 15 minutes to make a trip.

They have a total of 500 workers, and if they want to finish the 10,000 tons, they will have to go down until tomorrow, and they will have to do it without breathing.

Now with this thing, it only takes them three or four hours to finish the boat.

Moreover, it will be much easier than the previous manual picking.

The workers looked at Ning Mo now, as if they were looking at a god.

Ning Mo was embarrassed by them.

The workers also proposed to pool money to get the materials for the crane out, but Ning Mo waved his hand and declined.

His original intention was to help them.

He helped them, and the sense of satisfaction in his heart was far greater than the meaning of money.

Before leaving, he also told the workers, "If anyone asks, they will say that I gave this thing to you for use free of charge, and it is not allowed to be dismantled for use other than for the workers." What if someone asks me who I am? Let's just say I'm the owner of this dock. ”

Until Ning Mo walked out of the distance, those workers were still waving at him and shouting words of thanks.

"Good people live a long life!"

"A good man has a safe life!"

Ning Mo sighed softly. Do you live a long life? It probably won't work. This is going to cross the ocean, maybe this ocean is his final belonging.