Well, Tao Tao's face finally couldn't hold back at this time, and when she heard this, she quickly stopped her mother's words, turned around and said to the three little girls:

"Okay, okay, this ceremony is not wasted, in short, kowtow, we are the friendship of teachers and students, belch! Don't kneel anymore, enough is enough, get up, I'll teach you the first lesson first, as the saying goes, follow the local customs, we don't kneel and kowtow here, and ...... in the future."

"I said, ladies over there, have you finished talking? Let's take the three little girls back to school to rest! We're ready to unload the cargo....."

Tao Tao was still talking at length to the respectful little girls, and a group of boys over there had already begun to make noise, so after a while, except for Wang Gong, all the ladies left the dock with the girls, and got on the "Zenith Star" train that had long been parked on the tracks, accompanied by a whistle, the locomotive dragged a few wagons, and took the ladies away......

When the people returning from the voyage were gathering with their families, on the other side of the gangway, the unloading of the Nicole began at the same time.

At this time, about sixty strong men had gathered on the wharf, who had just been sent from the field, and they were accompanied by thirty manpower tricycles, and it could be seen that the interest of the Han people was quite high, because the wages for loading and unloading at the wharf were much higher than working in the fields.

Exactly as the crew guessed, when Nicole's first package of cargo was hoisted onto the dock, the Han people on the cement platform skillfully turned the winch, operated the boom to turn, and several people hung the bag on the hook that hung down, and when the whistle sounded, the bag was lifted, rotated 180 degrees, and turned to a nearby wagon, where someone unloaded the bags, and those odd goods were loaded into tricycles and transported directly to a nearby warehouse.

Although the whole loading and unloading process is not very fast, it is obviously much more efficient and labor-saving than manual carrying.

The key is that only about 30 people are needed for these loading and unloading work, which is very labor-saving.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to bulk industrial raw materials and semi-finished products, the goods purchased at sea this time also include a variety of small packages of scattered goods, such as cloth, ready-to-wear, shoes, straw hats, straw mats, mosquito nets, all kinds of handmade bamboo products and lacquerware for household use, all kinds of groceries, small furniture, all kinds of dry goods, and even fruits from Timor Island and desserts from the market of Dili City, as well as all kinds of durable dried fruits and jerky, soy sauce and vinegar and other seasoning sauces.

In addition, there are all kinds of small goods, such as kitchen knives, scissors, colored cotton thread, women's small headdresses, sewing needles, hairpins and other daily necessities, in short, some needles and threads, which are indispensable commodities for living at home, and it is obvious that most of these goods are things that cannot be produced on the island for the time being or are more laborious to produce.

These goods belong to Ledi Department Store, and before the fleet departed, the chairman and president of Ledi Department Store and the counter salesman, Han Lotian, entrusted the fleet to purchase on behalf of the fleet.

Although the total amount of the purchase is not large, that is, the scale of more than 1,000 taels of silver, this is a real business, because Ledi Department Store not only has to pay the fleet two taels of silver according to the purchase price, but also adds cost items such as freight.

Of course, this settlement process is transparent, as the first entity company of the traversers, its operation is very formal at the beginning, there are standard accounting account books, there is a financial system under the supervision of mutual funds, President Han and salesman even have their own salary, and according to the provisions of the Articles of Association of Ledi Department Store Co., Ltd., all 93 traversers, as shareholders, will regularly listen to President Han's business report, and will receive dividends at the end of the year, and also have the right to check the accounts—— If the shareholders have that leisure and are interested.

Since the opening of Han Letian's boss's department store business, the shelves of this so-called department store are basically half empty, if it weren't for Xia Xiaoou giving him some supermarket supplies in the cave, and Lao Wang Lao Zhu giving him some wine and cured meat to make a foundation, his Ledi department store would have no goods to sell at all.

Now, Boss Han can finally fill the empty shelves with a dazzling array of goods, and never live up to the word "department store" again.

Han Lotian was very happy on this day, because his department store located next to the gate of Sunflower Girls' School was doing very good business, and a lot of goods were shipped that day.

Since hundreds of Han people and dozens of women came to the island, Boss Xiao Han has been able to give full play to his many years of business experience in running a small supermarket in the old world, and he knows what ordinary people need to live at home, even if it is hundreds of years apart, in fact, the basic things are almost the same.

So before the fleet set off, under the counselor of Dr. Zhu Da, he made a long list of department store purchases, and under the care of Gu Jin and Li Sanduo, he finally completed the purchase in Macao and Dili according to the list. If the profit does not exceed 300%, it is not called normal business.

What's more, this is thousands of miles away overseas, not to mention that now the Han people's pockets are very bulging, the purchasing power is very strong, and there is no other place to buy, so Xiao Han boss directly formulated a "conscience price increase" - an average price increase of 150 percent, of course, this is gross profit, including Xiao Han's boss rent and employee wages and other daily operating expenses, but this gross profit added up, did not affect its sales at all.

Especially the female students of Sunflower Girls' College, their purchasing power is stronger than that of the Han people, and I don't know why: because there are people above them......

The loading and unloading operations at the dock lasted two days before they were completely completed.

Not all bags will be loaded onto the train, during this period has been the on-site loading and unloading command is Mr. Zhao and Boss Luo, after all, those bulk goods are mainly theirs, the two are also responsible for deciding where to store these bags, some of them are also transported to the double mountain shed on the hill near the dock, where a lot of empty space has been cleared, because the gasoline and diesel from the old world are constantly consumed, and half of the greenhouses are currently empty, these simple warehouses are just used to store the bulk goods transported back by the fleet.

In parallel with the unloading of goods at the wharf, more than 100 children from the Macau House of Mercy were disembarked, most of whom were under the age of eight, because children over the age of eight were basically considered capable laborers, so children of this age were often bought in the name of "adoption" or "apprenticeship".

Therefore, there are not many children over the age of eight in the Church of Mercy, and only twelve of them are between the ages of eight and fourteen, and all of them are boys, and these children have not been taken away because of their appearance as weak as they appear.

In this case, for the boys, if they are relatively weak, basically no one wants them, so if they do not meet the traversers, these children will automatically leave the orphanage when they reach the age of fifteen to fend for themselves, in fact, they are left to fend for themselves.

There's no way around it, the world is like that.

In addition, ethnically, most of these orphans are Han Chinese, and 70 percent of them are girls, and the gender ratio is seriously unbalanced.

The reason here does not need to be repeated, what is the fate of the baby girl like in this era, you can refer to Xia Xiaoou's fierce speech when she refuted the feminist assault remarks when discussing the "Marriage Compensation Law" and the origin of the baby girl told by Dean Angel.

Of these children, about one-fifth are of mixed Chinese and Portuguese descent, and in this group, there is a relatively balanced ratio of men and women, and such children are usually the focus of adoption by the Holy House of Mercy.