as sipping his coffee and almost didn't spit it out at Elrond's narcissistic words. Crying and laughing, he pointed at Elrond and said, ''That's something you can say, I can kind of understand why you were able to take in the Sisterhood. Get the hell out of here! Don't tease me, an old man, here."
Elrond didn't mind, and just got up and saluted to say goodbye "Goodbye Sir!"
At any rate Colonel Tichy's help to Elrond, or rather to the Chinese, was very great, even if he did it casually, but the subsequent effect produced was very beneficial to all except the Japanese, who had a very bad influence.
When Elrond arrived at his berth with his pack on his back, the crew of the Gilas had also returned and were interacting enthusiastically on board, it was clear that everyone had had a great time on this vacation.
When Elrond came back, everyone stood at attention and saluted. Elrond went over and shook hands with everyone one by one, and then called the first mate De La Torre to the captain's room to ask about the situation of recruiting the crew. At first, in order to recruit crew for the Global Trading Company, Elrond had given a favorable condition that for every person recruited, he would give the introducer a ten-dollar referral fee.
"Reporting to the Captain, the crew has brought two to three sailors with them almost every one of them, I have done a screening for you in the early stages and the number of crew members who have passed my test is one hundred and sixty-eight, here is the list, please check it out." First Officer de la Torre was truly thankful from the bottom of his heart for his young officer.
This time De La Torre rested for four days, his home is the slums of Rio de Janeiro, so he went home very close, but when he returned home, just when his son had a high fever, his wife had no money in hand, and was anxious to know what to do, De La Torre came back to the home, the hand of one hundred and twenty dollars can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, which makes De La Torre's heart thankful to Elrond.
"Oh! Did you recruit so many people this time! Good, well done, let me see. Oooh! Old De, you've introduced six sailors all by yourself! Not bad at all. Where have the personnel been placed! Clothing, food, and shelter are all arranged, aren't they!" Elrond scanned the list De La Torre handed over and found that within the referrals at the back, Mr. First Mate alone had introduced six people. He couldn't help but laugh and snicker.
"Sir, don't worry, the ones I introduced here are all good sailors, many of them retired from our Navy, and as for the personnel, they are all now arranged over at the docks that Global Trading has acquired in Rio."
"Hmm! That's good, we'll go see them together later, I haven't wandered through Rio yet! Take advantage of the fact that there's still a bit of time left, and we'll go check it out today for the next two days as well." Elrond had been to Rio de Janeiro many times in his previous life, but hadn't been here yet in this one, and wanted to see what the City of God was like in this day and age. Was the largest plebeian ghetto in the world now taking shape.
As soon as De la Torre heard that Elrond wanted to stroll around Rio de Janeiro, he quickly spoke up, "Sir, I am from Rio, I've come to be your guide, and if you don't mind you can be my guest at my home."
Elrond was nonchalant once he heard that de la Torre was actually from Rio. "So this is your hometown Lao De, no offense, let's all go to your house and visit your family."