"If you don't have enough money, it's impossible to continue to retrieve the corpse," Chen Bo told his pleading classmates.
"Remember, don't bring the body back" Wang Shouhai, the corpse salvator, also received a call from his boss Chen Bo and stopped his body salvage boat. He looked back and saw that there was still the body of a college student who had just been salvaged hanging from the stern. This is undoubtedly a cruel act in the eyes of outsiders.
According to the rules of the industry handed down from ancient times to salvage corpses, no matter what kind of corpse is salvaged, in short, the corpse must not be on its own ship, which will bring you very bad luck. What he didn't know, however, was that it was this unknown rule that would bring him a storm.
[Busy sneaking into the hand, hit the inevitable dispute]
Originally, today was a relatively relaxed and comfortable day for Wang Shouhai, because the work was not too busy, and it was rare for him to be busy and play cards with people to pass the time. But sometimes it's really people who are not as good as heavenly calculations, and soon after the start of the game, someone shouted.
"It's not good, it's a fate, let's go and see it." A panicked villager pointed in the direction of the beach. However, this is also a common thing for Wang Shouhai. He had been salvaging corpses for so long, and he had never seen any rare things, so he did not seem anxious.
After a pause, Wang Shouhai turned his head and said: "The salvage company has its own rules, you can't go to retrieve the corpse without negotiating a good price, and if the rules for recovering the corpse are broken, I am a part-time worker, but I can't afford this responsibility."
Corpse salvage is a profession that specializes in salvaging people who have fallen into the water, and this profession is relatively unfamiliar to most people in society. And it involves the most taboo death, there are many unknown details, so society has always worn colored glasses for this industry.
"Oh, let's go over and take a look, maybe there are a few more to save lives," the visitor continued to urge. When Wang Shouhai heard this shout, he pondered in his heart and said: Since the person is not dead, otherwise go and see it first, saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, and it is always not wrong to accumulate virtue and goodness.
However, after Wang Shouhai arrived, with years of salvage experience, he quickly caught a person, and looked over and found that the person was actually helpless. So he hung the salvaged body at the stern and dragged him forward. But as soon as he started leaving, he received a call from his boss, Chen Bo, and after connecting, he heard Chen Bo say: "Remember, don't bring the body back."
It turned out that after Chen Bo knew about this matter, he had already begun to negotiate the salvage price with the other party when Wang Shouhai was salvage, and now the price has not been negotiated, he cannot let the ship dock, otherwise the salvage fee is not easy to settle later, which is also the reason for the rules of the industry.
What Wang Shouhai didn't know when he stopped the boat and waited was that he was being recorded at the moment, and then a report "The Monopoly Behind the 36,000 Sky-high Corpse Retrieval" exposed his "cold-blooded and unscrupulous" side in the form of pictures and texts, and completely pushed him to the cusp.
[Eleven wise people saved the twin children, sighed that three people lost their lives in the river]
Talking anxiously to Chen Bo was a teacher. It turned out that the person who fell into the water was a member of a group of college students who came out to play. At two o'clock in the afternoon of October 24, 2009, while playing outside, they suddenly noticed two children accidentally sliding into the water. The situation was critical, and they didn't think too much, so they immediately ran over, bent on getting the child back to shore.
But because no one has learned to swim, if you want to save the child, the danger is still relatively large, so after discussion, they decided to hold hands and move slowly, approaching the child who fell into the water in the river, hoping to grab his body.
With the efforts of eleven students, they managed to pull a small child back to the shore, but seeing that there was still one in the water, they decided to do it again according to the method just now. Just as they grabbed the second child and pulled him back to shore, something unexpected happened.
One of the students released their grip on each other's hands because of their lack of physical strength, causing everyone to lose the balance they had established, and nine classmates were involved in the water, and for a while, these students were also panicked. Although people from nearby winter swimmers also arrived in time, three students lost their precious lives. Their bodies were all recovered three hours later.
[Heroic deeds are touching, and the dispute over the recovery of corpses only asks for gold]
Wang Shouhai really did not expect that such an ordinary person as himself would one day become a major focus of society. More unfortunately, because of that report, he became the target of everyone - "inhumane", "cold-blooded steamed buns", "seeing profit and forgetfulness" and a series of obscenities that wantonly impacted his life.
Wang Shouhai himself felt aggrieved. He is just a migrant worker, doing things according to the rules of the industry and the company's regulations, which is nothing more than doing a job and making a hard money.
During the reporter's interview, according to Wang Shouhai's recollection, he waited on the river for a total of about half an hour, because the other party did not have enough money or was unwilling to pay, and he kept pulling and bargaining. But in the end, it was the student and teacher who accepted the deposit first, and he got the order to continue salvage and began salvage. Until it was all salvaged after five o'clock.
Wang Shouhai continued: Because there were many people around the shore, at this time, because he wanted to dock, he waved his hand and asked everyone to give up their positions, but it was this action that was later interpreted as evidence of the corpse asking for a price. He couldn't argue.
He believes that even if there is a problem with pricing, the main responsibility should be the boss, not an honest grassroots corpse collector. And he doesn't know what the price the boss gives, even if he knows that the price of the corpse is set by the company, he can't decide anything.
For him, no matter how much money he retrieves the corpse, what he gets is only more than 500 yuan of hard money, and he will not get more because of the high salvage fee. Moreover, after learning that the three drowning people were rescue heroes, he returned more than 500 yuan of his own. He felt that it was enough.
[The chaos of corpses is endless, and the social conscience is tortured]
However, for the media and the public, perhaps what Wang Shouhai thinks is no longer so important. Because the media has already got what he wants, the photo of Wang Shouhai waving his hand when he landed has been replaced with a photographic trophy and placed on the honor wall. And the people also dispersed one by one after expressing their righteous indignation.
Nevertheless, as a social event, it cannot always be gone. We should still see loopholes in policy regulation and industry chaos that private corpse recovery companies urgently need to manage. Because Wang Shouhai is not the first person to be victimized by chaos, nor will he be the last.
In 2015, Deng Gangming of Panzhihua, Sichuan Province, was searching for his missing son. Someone told him that he had seen his son on the edge of the Jinsha River. Combined with his son's recent death-seeking remarks and a series of abnormal performances, his heart sank, and he had a bad premonition.
Just in case, Deng Gangming first went to find Yang Yumei, a corpse hunter in the village.
"Whether you catch it or not, the hook fee of 1,000 yuan is to be given"
"If you find a body, it will cost at least 18,000 yuan"
This is the condition given by Yang Yumei. Deng Gangming didn't have much money, but he gritted his teeth and agreed for his son. If I can't get it, it means that my son is fine, and 1,000 yuan is worth it.
But in the end, the son was fished out. However, after Deng Gangming said that he could not get that much money for the time being, his son, who had just been salvaged, was thrown back into the water. Three days later, children playing around saw the floating body and called the police, and only after the mediation of the police did they finally continue to salvage it for 5,400 yuan.
[There are lotus flowers in the sludge water, and the word Yili is righteous]
Nevertheless, we cannot completely dismiss this industry in generality, because there are still many state-run and caring salvage teams in it who practice the values of social goodness with their actions. They did a lot of nameless work, such as Chen Song's family.
Chen Song's salvage work is a continuation of his father's footsteps. From nausea and fear at the beginning to habitual now. There is too much inhumane sadness in the middle experience. The places where they are located are easy to converge on the terrain, so they often become the final salvagers. At most, there were seventy or eighty corpses a week.
However, they are different from many private companies in that they do not bargain in advance, nor do they arbitrarily ask for high prices, let alone go to make a lot of money, they are more casual, do not take the initiative to ask their families for money, just look at the family's intentions from hundreds to more than a thousand, and do not force.
epilogue
Death is something that no one wants to see. Therefore, the industry of corpse salvage has never been really seriously understood, but more just feel taboo, can stay away from it, can not discuss without discussion.
However, each of us must experience "life and death" events. In areas we don't understand, there are always people who uphold simple social values and assume roles that people in the wider environment do not want to choose. They bear people's strange eyes and people's strange evaluations.
It may be precisely for this reason that these industries have gradually moved away from the healthy development environment that the public is accustomed to, resulting in regulatory loopholes and industry chaos. This is something that our society as a whole needs to take seriously and think about.
I remember that there was a line in the movie "The Undertaker": Let the deceased be rejuvenated, give eternal beauty, this process, calm and peaceful, delicate and gentle, and with gentle emotions. At the moment of separation, sending away the deceased, the quietness, makes people feel that every action is so beautiful.
The corpse salvage is also such an important role. They are not a profession that we need to taboo. Instead, they are professions that require more respect from us. Every body they salvaged was the loved one of their loved ones. But the moment the bodies were salvaged, they were no longer alone.