Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Ocean Case (1)
"Here's what I read in the newspaper about one of the survivors, and if you can't listen to it, just say it, there's no need to be so stressed. For some reason, the name published in the newspaper is also a pseudonym, and the person interviewed is called Zhao Mucheng, and the two of you can listen to the others. ”
"I was called by Cui Yong. Cui Yong is a native of Dalian, and I have a good relationship with him, anyway, it is relatively good, and I have worked in the same restaurant before. I was in town at the time, and I had a barbecue stall at home, a roadside stall, and it rained all the time that summer, and I didn't make much money. I just called him, and I had nothing to do, and two days later he called me again and told me that I had this job. At that time, he said that his salary was 45,000 a year, and there would be a commission after that. ”
"At that time, I just got married, and I knew that the conditions at home were not good, and I couldn't meet her requirements, and I wanted to earn some money back, at least some capital, so I wanted to take a look first."
After that, let's get the seafarer's certificate first, I think let's do it first, anyway, the company pays some money. I took classes for three days in total, and the exam was also copied and brought, and I basically gave the certificate. After doing it, I went to Shandong from Dalian on October 5.
At that time, I didn't have much to worry about, the only thing was salary. The main thing is that I wanted to make money at that time, I couldn't save any money on land, and after two years, at least I had nowhere to spend my money, and I could still save it. I want to go up and make some money, and then go back to the land to start a small business.
After arriving at the company, our ship was still at sea and did not come back, so we waited there. The crew found a total of 33 people, at first there were 35 people, and then some left, all because of family matters, one because his mother was scraped down by a car or fell by himself, anyway, his arm was broken, and there was no one to take care of him at home, so he came down and quit.
I saw all the things I left behind before the boat, and I usually eat together or something. I don't know why, like me, they all work and do a small business.
There is a man named Xiang Lishan, whose hair is all white, and who is in his 50s, who said that he has killed people before and has been beaten twice in labor reform. ”
Among the 33 crew members, in addition to the captain Li Chengquan, the management personnel also include the first mate Fu Yizhong, the second mate Wang Yongbo, the chief engineer Wen Dou, the chief engineer Wang Yanlong, etc., and the others are ordinary crew members. The crew members are mainly from Shenyang, Chaoyang, Dandong, Fushun, Dalian, Changchun, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Shandong and other places. Most of the crew members are also relatives and acquaintances who invite each other, for example, Wen Dou and crew member Wen Mi are uncles and brothers, and the second mate Wang Yongbo is the cousin of crew member Wu Guozhi's wife. Wang Peng, a 25-year-old crew member from Dalian, was also invited by Wen Dou, a "senior brother" who was learning to drive at the same time, and held the idea of breaking outside, regardless of his family's opposition to board the "Lu Rongyu 2682".
"There are also a few people in Inner Mongolia who speak in their Mongolian language, which no one else can understand. I only know Cui Yong in this group.
When Cui Yong was working in a small passenger transport, a few people played cards in the rental house, drank and played drunk, and set the house on fire, and later the family lost a lot of money, and he wanted to earn some money to pay off the debt. He's bigger, a little taller than me, chubby.
After the boat followed, it was several days to carry supplies to it, fish, meat, rice and noodles were all given by the company, as well as those vegetables. Then there is the installation of lights, fishing for squid has to rely on the bright light to attract squid, there is a rod on the bow of the boat, there is a connection on it, one on one side, there are lights hanging on it, a two-kilowatt, Philips's, there is so thick, there are more than a dozen, people's eyes can't stand it for a long time, and they are all in tears.
I brought some instant noodles, mineral water, drinks, beer, etc., and I bought them at my own expense, five or six bundles of beer per person, and 30 cigarettes, because I had to smoke them for two years. You can also make up for it halfway, but on the freighter, it's too expensive to make up, and one can cost 180 yuan.
I also retreated in the back, and my family and friends were reluctant to let me go, saying that it was too far, but I thought about it after talking to my family, and I felt that I didn't go to it, and it was a little bit, as if I couldn't suffer that sin, I couldn't do that, and you always gave up halfway to do something.
Moreover, it took more than 7,000 to take the crew certificate and materials in the early stage.
A few days later, the company officially went to sea, and the company went out seven ships at a time, several of which were in the dark, and those with crew certificates were all on our ship. The customs went to check, one by one on the exit records, after a short distance out of the border inspection left, just drive for ten minutes, we stopped there, and the company sent another boat to send others up, there were more than 10 unlicensed, including Liu Guiduo.
Liu Guiduo brought 165 cigarettes, from the bed to the top, he got three boxes a night, and said, 'I don't know what's going on when the gets on the boat, I can't lose myself the cigarettes'. ”
These 165 cigarettes were all on credit.
"At first, I felt very good, I looked at it as far as the eye could see, and I felt quite open in my heart, but after a long time, I couldn't see the land, and I felt that I had no bottom in my heart. I started throwing up all the time, several times a day, and after 16 days, I was seasick.
On the way to Peru, everyone's relationship is okay, anyway, we want to go fishing, all on the same boat, playing cards all day long, talking nonsense, talking nonsense, how about coming back, buy a modified car, or go out to play, spend all the money, anyway, talk a lot. I'm not too talkative, and I'm more suitable for being an audience.
They push pai gow every day, and I play it occasionally. The gamble is not small, and there is a little cash on it. I didn't actually spend much of my money, so I asked Cui Yong to borrow it, two or three thousand. To be honest, I really don't like to borrow, and I really don't like to borrow when I play cards.
When I was about to arrive in Peru, once I went back to the dormitory, I saw Liu Guiduo with a small notebook, nothing I thought about rummaging through there, I saw that he had memorized some numbers, I asked him, said it was the navigation coordinates, I said what are you doing with this, tell me that I have nothing to do and just play and remember.
Anyway, I can't figure out what he thinks, I feel that he is always thinking about things, and ordinary people can't see through him.
After about 40 days, on the last day of February, we arrived at the place (Peruvian waters) and started fishing. At night, when it gets dark and starts fishing, as soon as the lights are turned on, the squid swims towards the light, puts the hook down, and feels that there are fish going up, there is no technical content, just look at it. At first, I didn't know that there was a fish bite, and one person couldn't drag more than ten catties of fish, and it felt too heavy, so two people dragged it.
Over the course of a few months, I always caught less than others. Liu Gui grabbed the most, fishing more than 13,000 catties in one month. There is not much difference between the two of us, and I have also learned from him and asked how deep it is, for example, if there are no fish in the water layer of 50 meters, go down 70 meters. Sometimes my hook is trimmed, and he doesn't even get his hook, and sometimes he doesn't get it when it's crooked, and he catches so much.
Liu Guiduo and me, Cui Yong, and Huang Jinbo are relatively close in age, and they can talk together, if he can't get used to anyone, he basically doesn't talk to anyone. Although the relationship is usually good, I feel that Liu Guiduo is very arrogant and looks down on us a little. ”
"There is a purchase ship at sea, and after the fish in the cabin are full, the acquisition ship is used to unload the cargo, go down to the bilge, 50 trays per person, 30 catties per plate, lift up, that one is the most tired, and I am short and more difficult. If you want to catch up with the unloading, you may not be able to sleep for two days and one night.
In fact, at the beginning, I had a good impression of Liu Guiduo. I heard that he was a soldier. The body is not strong, even a little thin, but for the sake of others, when unloading, I am short, Liu Guiduo generally does not let me go, I have gone down once or twice, he helped me lift.
I don't know what the situation is at his family, but he is quite poor anyway, and his parents farm in Heilongjiang.
After a long time, I don't know who I heard, and it came out, saying that the company's salary was a little inaccurate, saying that I had to find something to do when I went back, and I had to deduct my salary, and the contract was not right.
Liu Gui was relatively quick to grab his brains, and when he settled the accounts, he found that what he earned in the end was not enough for him to buy cigarettes. I don't think it's possible, so big companies can still be inferior to these people's wages.
These were all privately passed down by the crew and never asked the captain.
The captain's name was Lee Seung-kwon, and he was later sentenced to death. Very tall, very big, with a bad temper, there was a crew member who made him unhappy, punched him, his eyes were black, and there was a dispute between the crew, he always looked at his fellow countrymen, and then there was a slap.
The newly replaced master, Lao Xia, usually bluffs and bluffs, loves to pat the captain's ass, and always thinks that he has seen the world when he is old. He and his crew Jiang Xiaolong's home are both in Heilongjiang, and they are not far away. Before the accident, I drank some wine one night, how could Lao Xia scold Jiang Xiaolong for coming, noisy, Jiang Xiaolong took a knife to stab him, but he didn't pierce him. Then we went down and pulled him down. The captain gave Jiang Xiaolong a few strokes and wanted to drive him away. Jiang Xiaolong knelt down for the captain on the spot and told me that he was wrong, he drank too much or something, and Liu Guiduo was also there to plead. Maybe they started a little feud from there.
Slowly, the freshness of the beginning has passed, the crew is also skinny, there are too many lazy and slippery people, after fishing in the morning, the fish must be separated, 30 catties a plate, a single more than 8 catties have to be separated, the head is the head, that is, the triangle one, the wings are the wings, the body is the body, weigh the catties, and then classify, after washing, put the plate into the freezer, and that's it.
Fishing for the same goods, other boats can be finished at 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock in the morning, we have to 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, as soon as we arrive here, we can't find anyone, we all run to be lazy, and finally the captain doesn't care, he is also angry, he always shouts every day, no one listens. The rest of the men didn't go to bed until 2 o'clock, so I suggested that the captain take shifts, and he wouldn't listen.
Liu Guiduo is okay, not very lazy, but at that time he often pulled other people to talk, mysterious, and his mind was not on fishing. ”
It is recorded in the case materials that Liu Guiduo communicated with the captain about returning to China ahead of schedule, but the captain told him, "You can't go back, you haven't applied for a crew certificate, and other ships don't dare to take you back, otherwise it will be smuggling, you have to do it, and if you don't do it, you have to do it!" The litigation route that Liu Guiduo envisaged was later proved to be impossible to achieve, because the company used false official seals when signing contracts with the crew, who were in fact a group of black workers trapped at sea.
In this case, how things develop depends on the kind of people in the crew.
"One day Liu Guiduo said to me, we are tired of work, the company is very dark, violating the minimum wage standard, the money said in the contract will definitely not be able to get it, he said he wants to go home, fight a lawsuit with the company, and said that he knows a better lawyer in Jinan. I asked, 'How are you going to go back?' He didn't say anything else.
Before leaving, he said another sentence and told me that 'killing people on the high seas is not illegal.' ”
Liu Guiduo's secret tandem lasted for half a month. Zhao Mucheng still packed up the fishing tackle on time every day and sank the hook into the calm sea.
"That night, not long after I took the bait, the squid bit the hook, and when I caught it, I remembered that there was a new fishing knife, freshly sharpened and pointed, and placed on the foredeck. After taking it back, I saw a person lying on the hatch of the ship chatting, it was Liu Guiduo.
Seeing that I came over with a knife, Liu Guiduo said, your knife is very good, you lend me to see, lend me to make an envoy, and then give it to you later. After borrowing, he said to me, 'Will you participate in the hijacking of the ship for a while?' ’
When I heard that it was a hijacking, I said, 'No,' and he said, 'After the hijacking, there must be disobedient people, open the life raft, throw them inside, and then contact other boats to pick them up, and we will sail home.'" I said, 'Look, I can't do this.'" He said yes and walked away with the fish knife.
When I went back to the fishing position, I was also scared, because I knew that I would definitely rob the ship for a while, and I didn't dare to tell anyone, I didn't know who was with him, I could only look at it from there, and I could only look at who was like him for a while.
I know that the first mate and the second officer must not be, and the chief engineer must not be, they are all captains, but they are too far away from me, I can't go up to that block to find them, it's too obvious.
At that time, there was no discussion around me, it was all the crew, and they were all pretending to be there, and the fish knives were all received.
After a while, the golden wave came out, he fainted because of anemia or low blood sugar for a few days, and he didn't work for several days. I said what are you doing, he ignored me, and went directly to the captain's room, and after a while, Liu Gui grabbed a few of them and went up, and I knew what was going on at a glance.