Retrieve...retrieve corpses?
I immediately became interested, because I had only seen the matter of corpse harvesting in the news before. I remember that two years ago, there was a person who held corpses and demanded a price, which caused a lot of fuss.
So I asked Li Na, was the person who had been widely circulated on the Internet asking for a price for holding a corpse a professional corpse hunter?
Li Na said yes, yes, but actually you don’t know something. The place we came to today happened to be the place where the body was taken and the price was demanded...
I recalled the news at the time, and then I slapped my forehead. This was really an accident. This place is actually the same place!
At this time, the ship had already sailed over, and at the same time, people on the shore also discovered it, and they began to gather in twos and threes.
Li Na and I also went over to watch the fun, but Li Na reminded me not to get too close later to avoid being scared.
Because corpses fished out of the water basically don’t look very good...
I do know this. In the Songhua River in Harbin, two or three people drown every year. It is not a strange thing.
Li Na said it was nothing, there were only a few a year, but when there were more places like this, hundreds of them could be fished out in a day!
I said it's really incomparable... you are still awesome!
While talking, the boat had already arrived at the shore. After it stopped, two people jumped out of the boat and pulled a body out of the water.
The body was that of a man. He looked young and was wearing shorts. His clothes and shoes were gone. He might have been washed away by the water, or he might have drowned while swimming in the river and was washed away in Tangjiatuo.
However, the body was face down and its back was up, so you couldn’t see what it looked like. The boatman didn’t drag the body up, so it was half-soaked and floating in the river.
It was probably common for people nearby to take a look and disperse. Some tourists who had never seen it gathered around and talked about it. They expressed regret, but no one dared to get close.
At this time, a man who should be the owner of the ship squatted on the bow of the ship to smoke after tying the mooring rope, while ordering the two men to do things, but I didn't understand what was said.
The captain looked to be in his fifties, with dark skin, a gloomy face, and an unsmiling look. The corpse was floating at his feet, but he was unmoved at all.
Li Na quietly told me that after recovering the body, she had to find the family members immediately. If anyone wanted it, they would negotiate a price. Once they had agreed, they would pay the money and hand over the body.
I said, what if the negotiation is not settled?
Li Na said that if there is no agreement, then just throw the body back. No one will care about it anyway, or there may be relevant departments to deal with it, but we don't know.
I couldn't help but be shocked. I looked at the corpse soaked in the river, and then remembered the news two years ago, and felt sad.
At this moment, several people who should be family members came from a distance. A woman was crying sadly. I didn't know where she was from. I basically couldn't understand a few words she said.
It can only be heard that these people should be negotiating the price with the corpse collector, but they can't reach an agreement.
Then Li Na translated with me and told me that the person who retrieved the body had actually negotiated a price with the family, which was 12,000 yuan, not a penny less.
But the family members were not willing to pay that much. They only wanted to give 3,000 yuan. The body collector did not agree and was a little annoyed, so they started arguing.
I think three thousand yuan is too little. To fish out a corpse from the vast Yangtze River and deliver it to you, not to mention how difficult it is, the key is that most people are not willing to do it. .
As for the corpse in the water now, I think it has been in the water for at least two or three days. To be honest, it has begun to swell and looks like a giant. If the corpse is turned around, I estimate that the appearance may be terrible.
They worked so hard to retrieve the body, endured nausea, and took risks to retrieve the body for you, and you will give me 3,000?
What's more, the price was originally agreed upon. Although 12,000 yuan is quite expensive, you have already agreed to it, so you can just take it out and slash the price?
But at this time, there were also people nearby pointing fingers, saying that these people who fished for corpses had the most evil intentions. They wanted retribution for asking for money from the dead!
This kind of thing is justified by the public and the mother-in-law, and it is difficult for an upright official to decide. I could only watch and said nothing during the whole process. Anyway, I couldn't understand what they said.
On the contrary, Li Na couldn't help it any longer, and walked over to the family members and said, "Hey, why don't you give me more money? The elder brother also said just now that they fished for you in the river all day and night, and they have been fishing since yesterday." , several people are busy working, and you just give them three thousand yuan. Isn’t this a bit unreasonable?"
At this time, the woman in the family who had been crying all the time was not happy anymore. She spoke Mandarin with a very irregular pronunciation and said to Li Na: "It's none of your business. Come out and be a good person and fish out the corpses in the river. Then They are all doing meritorious deeds and helping others. You ask for 12,000 yuan and live a long life!"
Li Na was naturally not to be outdone: "Nonsense, whether you want to do meritorious deeds or not help others, that's their decision. Why do you have to morally kidnap others? If you didn't want to give so much, you could have negotiated it at the beginning, and now they've got it." , just turn your back and refuse to admit it, I think you will die young!"
Oh, this Li Na still has a sense of justice, but there is really no way to say this kind of thing, no matter who you are from, so I went over to pull Li Na and persuaded: "Forget it, it's not worth arguing with them. Let them talk on their own. In fact, all they have to do is give in. After all, people are still soaking in the water, and the dead are the most important, so everything is easy to discuss."
I was trying to calm things down, fearing that Li Na would start a fight with them, and the few body collectors were all talking about it. That meant that the price could be negotiated, but three thousand was too outrageous, and the minimum was eight thousand.
The family members of the deceased still refused, saying that they could add a thousand more at most. The two parties started arguing again, and neither of them would give in. The man who retrieved the body was so angry that he wanted to untie the rope and throw the body back into the river.
Seeing this posture, Li Na was really nosy, so she directly called the police. It didn't take long for several police officers to arrive.
I guess this kind of thing is common for them. They can't say who is right and who is wrong. They can only mediate patiently.
All in all, after a long time of mediation, the family of the deceased finally took 5,000 yuan, and the person who retrieved the body had no choice but to admit it, untie the rope, and hand the body over to the other party.
After everything was over, it was almost dusk and the tourists gradually dispersed. The few corpse collectors had gloomy faces and muttered curses while packing up the cables and preparing to go home.
Li Na and I followed until the end. When we saw that nothing happened, we decided to return.
I have to say, this big girl is also a nosy, and she doesn't mind watching the excitement, but I guess she may be too busy.
Just when we were about to leave, the man who retrieved the corpse also started the boat. Perhaps because Li Na spoke for him, the boat owner even said hello to us when he left.
But less than two minutes after their boat left, they heard the boat owner suddenly shouting on the river.
"Attention, there is another floating corpse ahead... No, it's an upright corpse!"
