Shen Wenbo dreamed that he had returned home and talked and laughed with his wife and son.
When I woke up, the sun shone in through the iron window, and there were incomprehensible voices around me.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, more than 1,000 prisoners rushed out of seven cells and lined up to get water and wash up in the yard. After that, they set fire to cook or receive relief meals, and found a cool place to squat at the wall until they were taken back to the room at 4:30 pm, waiting for the dark night.
html June 30th, this is the 510th day of Shen Wenbo's spending in Madagascar prison. 8 Chinese crew members, 4 Bangladeshi crew members and 2 Myanmar crew members were trapped together, all from the Chinese cargo ship FLYING. In March 2019, he was sentenced to five years in prison for illegal entry.A group photo of 15 crew members on the Chinese cargo ship FLYING in prison. All the pictures in this article are provided by the respondents. In prison, they have experienced riots and were pointed at by prison guards with guns, and were bitten by cockroaches, mice, and psylliums everywhere. The most unbearable thing is the torment in their hearts.
html Starting from mid-Madagascar (hereinafter referred to as "Malaysia"), the new crown epidemic has worsened. As of June 30 local time, a total of 2,214 people have been confirmed in the country. The crew members are in the city of Tamatav, the center of the epidemic, which has been completely blocked and the hospital is overcrowded. On June 12, a group of doctors wearing protective clothing came to the prison. They first disinfected the prison, and then tested new prisoners with symptoms in cell No. 7, and 25 of them were isolated to cell No. 1 - the crew members were transferred to cell No. 3 with more than 80 people. After they asked the embassy for help, the prison responded that dengue fever occurred in Room 7. However, a prison guard told them privately that three prisoners and three policemen had been infected with the new crown.trapped crew members were worried that they were caught by the virus before they could wait for their freedom.
Prison years
Shen Wenbo still remembers the scene of going to prison on the first day.
It was February 6, 2019, the second day of the Lunar New Year. Early in the morning, their 15 crew members were called off the ship by three policemen, squeezed into two pickup trucks, and sent to prison.
The courtyard in front of me is as dilapidated as a refugee camp in the movie, with several bungalows scattered, the prisoners were ragged, some were barefoot, and some were cooking in fire, staring at them.
The dilapidated prison compound
The crew were stunned and snapped the prison door, shouting that they wanted to see the warden and contact the embassy. More and more prisoners were surrounding him.
Seeing this, the police climbed up to the wall with guns and scolded them to scatter. The prisoners scattered in a hurry, and they were also frightened and dared not make trouble again.
In the afternoon of that day, the prison head summoned them to the playground for a meeting, asking them to obey management, and if they make trouble, they will be punished. As a punishment, that night, some crew members were locked in the worst-conditioned cells and were assigned to houses 1, 2 and 3 the next day. Among the 17 cells in
html, Room No. 1 is a "VIP cell", which is ventilated and cooler, with only more than 20 people living in it, and the people who are detained are rich and "related" prisoners. Houses 2, 3 and 7 are medium-sized prison cells, with more than 100 people living in one room, and you need to pay 20,000 RM3 before you can move in. The other three prison cells are each separated on the third floor, with more than 300 people living in. They are all prisoners with no money and take turns to sleep at night.Most cells are only more than 50 square meters, and there are no beds. The prisoners sleep on straw mats or cement floors, and people stick to people, so it is difficult to turn over.
Prison cell
Crew crew spent money to buy mattresses and mattresses and tip the prison heads, so the space was a little larger. Unexpectedly, it caused some of the prisoners to be dissatisfied. They sang and gestured to them, and the two sides almost started fighting.
Tamatav is hot all year round, and the climate is humid and hot. In the cell, the hot and sweat were mixed with smell of sweat. Cockroaches were walking on the ground, geckos were crawling over their heads, and rats jumped onto them, which scared them to scream, which caused a burst of laughter.
Shen Wenbo lived in Room 2 for more than a month. He was bitten from psyllium all over his body and had prickly heat. He asked the warden to plead with him before he was transferred to Room 1. Sailor Li Yiyin was bitten by a poisonous insect, and left a black scar after blisters, making it unbearable. Other crew members also developed symptoms such as skin ulceration, suppuration, and diarrhea.
During the day, they let out news in the yard, watching Malay prisoners play football and basketball, occasionally playing chess and cards, and rarely speak because they are depressed.
contacted the outside world. At first, he could only use the police mobile phone secretly, with 5,000 RM5 (equivalent to about 10 yuan), and he could make 5 minutes. Later, he used RM10,000 for two hours. In September last year, the embassy came forward to coordinate and the prison allowed them to use their mobile phones. They asked the local Chinese restaurant owner to buy a second-hand mobile phone to share, and the prison guards helped keep it. They can use it for 3 and a half hours a day, and it will be used once the next day this year.
Chinese restaurants deliver them food, two dishes, a bottle of mineral water every day, and sometimes they also bring some daily necessities and medicines. The owner pays the meal expenses, and the boss often complains that the owner owes money and cannot contact others.
Other prisoners in prison, who have no money can only eat relief meals, a little cassava, or rice with boiled beans; those who have some money can ask the police to buy rice and vegetables and cook in the stove.
crew found that when looking for the police to buy things, one box of cigarettes often lost, and only half a bottle of Coke was left. Sometimes the police ask for money, 5,000 or 10,000 RMB, and enthusiastically shouted "friend, friend" after arrival. Some crew members were fooled to buy two 1,000 yuan mobile phones for the prison guards so that they could "go out to do things".
is common to lose money. Some police will investigate secretly and embezzle the money after finding the thief. The sailor leader Meng Fanyi once lost 175,000 RM175,000. After the police found the thief, the warden wanted to leave 30,000, and the two policemen each asked 20,000... Only 80,000 were left in his hands.
In July last year, a riot occurred in the prison. The prison guard punished a prisoner who smoked marijuana. The prisoner jumped over the wall and fled back to the cell. The police advised him to come out and refuse to listen. Dozens of his followers followed suit. The next morning, more than 20 police officers carried guns and drove all the prisoners back to the cell.
was pointed at by the police with a gun. The crew members were frightened and followed the crowd to the cell. The inmate who was causing trouble threw stones at the police. The police fired, pierced the palm of an innocent prisoner, and finally pulled out the group, hitting them all over.
There are mentally ill prisoners in prison, howling every night, robbing clothes to wear; epilepsy prisoners foam at the mouth and peeing on people; some prisoners are said to have AIDS, and the crew members dare not approach. There were also prisoners who died of illness or were beaten to death, and they were lying at the door of the bathroom, surrounded by flies.
Last month, two more prisoners died and the crew panicked.
The new crown epidemic spread to Madagascar on March 20, with the number of confirmed cases continuing to rise.
In prison, prison guards wore disposable masks, and their families were prohibited from visiting prisons. Room No. 7 specially set aside to detain new prisoners. Occasionally, some people spray disinfectant water on trash cans and sewage ditches... But the crew members are still worried that prison guards enter and leave the prison every day, often take off their masks and gather to chat; new prisoners rely on other prisoners to deliver food and water, and still have contact; some prisoners will go out to work as laborers, and are not allowed to bring the virus in.
The crew members wanted to go out to quarantine, and the embassy suggested that they hire a lawyer to submit a bail application; they found the shipowner's owner Yang Jianfeng, but there was no progress, so they could only apply to the warden for an empty room to quarantine, but they were not approved. Finally, after spending 2,000 yuan (RMB), all crew members were transferred to House No. 1.
html From January to mid-May, Tamatav had the first death toll, with the number of confirmed cases soaring, and the government requisitioned three places to treat asymptomatic infections.The family members of the crew are very worried about the epidemic.
crew members had fever one after another. Two of them had a high fever for about ten days, couldn't eat, couldn't fall asleep all night, and had no effect when taking medicine and injections.
html On May 25, a crew member wrote a letter in prison. At that time, the crew members were unable to use their mobile phones, so they could only hand over the letter to the local Chinese restaurant owner who helped them deliver the meals and forwarded them to their families. mobile phone is no longer allowed to be used, so they can only write a letter and forward it to the family members who asked the restaurant owner to deliver the meal, and the family members asked the embassy for help. The embassy invited the doctor to the prison to see the crew and prescribed some medicine, which gradually improved. Under the coordination of the embassy, the crew reused their phones, but they could only use them for a while at a time.
Shen Wenbo later heard that the two dead prisoners died of stomach disease, not COVID-19. But the prison guards privately revealed that someone in the prison had been diagnosed and several prison guards had not come to work for several days.
China-Africa Online WeChat official account also disclosed that at the end of May, a prisoner in Tamatav Prison tested positive for nucleic acid.
html In early June, two new prisoners developed severe symptoms of COVID-19 and were sent to the hospital. The crew members were frightened by this. In addition to washing and eating, they kept moving away from the cell and wearing masks when sleeping.They dare not tell their families about their situation, worried about whether they can reunite with them before they die.
Dangerous voyage
Everything originated from that long voyage.
On August 3, 2018, Shin Wenbo boarded the FLYING ship from Hong Kong. Before boarding the ship, he checked information on the Ship News Network. This is an old ship built in 1997, 97 meters long and 17 meters wide, not large among cargo ships. The ship owner is Fuzhou Minfeng Shipping Co., Ltd., and the actual controller is Hong Kong Lianhua International Trade Co., Ltd.
FLYING is anchored at the port of Tamatav. The crew member Fu Weigang's younger brother was filmed when he visited Malaysia in April 2019.
Previously, he posted his resume online on Shipping Online. Dalian Huashang Shipping Co., Ltd. sent him on board the ship. His position is the first mate and his monthly salary is 13,000 yuan. It was his first time to be a first mate in 10 years of running a boat. Two months after boarding the ship, FLYING shipped scrap iron from Hong Kong to Vietnam, then loaded cassava back to Dongguan, and traveled between the three places - this route was also mainly the last two years.
until October 2, they received an order from the owner to go to Singapore to refuel, then go to Madagascar to install wood, and return after 3 months.
"Suddenly received an order to run other routes, which is very common." Shen Wenbo said that the crew must obey the captain's instructions after boarding the ship. The owner did not say what wood they loaded, nor did they ask about it.
htmlOn October 7, FLYING drove from Singapore to Madagascar. Most of the 17 people on board, except for the captain and the owner's representative, boarded the ship for the first time.List of 15 crew members on Chinese cargo ship FLYING (2019 statistics).
The commander Cai Yongjun and sailor chief Meng Fanyi, who is over 50 years old, want to work for a few more years to earn some money to support him; chef Chen Xudong got on the boat for the first time, and he was a decoration designer and wanted to go out to sea to relax; Ershui Li Yiyin has been on the boat for 9 months in order to earn money from milk powder for his daughter. He doesn't want to go to Africa, but the contract period has not been completed, and the company has not found a replacement, so he will not let him get off the boat... 20 days after
, FLYING crossed the Indian Ocean diagonally, and the weather is very good and the weather is calm. The crew worked in three shifts and worked 8 hours a day. During rest, watch movies, play games, play cards, fish, or run and exercise on the deck.
htmlOn October 26, FLYING broke down in the waters near northeastern Madagascar. There is more than 20 nautical miles away from the land. When the weather is clear, you can see land, islands, and mountains. The sea water is very clear. Whales will swim to the boat to play. Whenever a group of fish comes over, the crew members will come out to fish. They have caught a big shark. Beforearrived, the captain sent an email to inquire about the voyage order and loading plan. The owner replied that the company had not agreed to it yet and asked to wait for news.
Shen Wenbo has encountered this situation before. Once, when I loaded palm shells from India to Japan, there was no new goods after unloading, so I had to drift in the Japanese territorial waters and was expelled by the Japanese Coast Guard with a very high frequency call. Another time I went to Canada and planned to load grain. The ship arrived, but the cargo was not negotiated. After more than 20 days of drifting, the modified coke was shipped to the United States.
A week later in early November, a gray-white boat sailed towards them, claiming to be the Malaysian Navy, and requesting a stop to inspect.
Captain reported to the ship owner, who said that the other party could not be confirmed and that he would blackmail him when he got on the ship, "just leave directly."
The boat chased after more than an hour but couldn't catch up. Shen Wenbo felt a little strange: the ship was outside the sea at that time, "we have never been inspected by ships outside the sea."
also has crew members suspected that it was a pirate ship. Cai Yongjun encountered pirates. It was when he transported sugar to Somalia in 2006. At 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, two speedboats kept chasing their ship, shouting that the ship would shoot when it was about to stop. After stopping the ship, eight pirates came on board and forced the ship to Somalia to break down. Fortunately, the owner of the sugar cargo was a local smuggling leader, and the crew members were not abused. After being hijacked for 46 days, the company paid to settle the matter.
In order to prevent pirates from boarding the ship, the company will organize anti-pirate exercises every month, pulling barbed wire, setting up fire water guns, and setting up hiding safety compartments.
FLYING continues to drift in the deep sea more than 100 nautical miles away from Malaysia.As the southwest ocean current blows, the ship automatically moves towards Malaysia. Every time they go out for fifty or sixty nautical miles away from the island, they go far away.
to the end of November, one morning, a gray-green two-wing aircraft hovered over the ship, making a buzzing sound. The crew waved to the plane curiously, and saw that the plane flew away with a flash of light two or three minutes later.
Shen Wenbo began to feel a little suspicious. The arrival loading time has been repeatedly postponed and cancelled, and the AIS ship automatic ship identification system was closed as soon as the ship arrived in Malaysia, which does not comply with the provisions of the International Shipping Convention on AIS to be turned on 24 hours a day (unless you enter the pirate area). In addition, he encountered law enforcement ships and military aircraft. He was worried that there was any problem with the voyage, so he wrote a statement saying that he was a legal crew member and would never do anything illegal. He asked that he would look at the documents and procedures when entering the port again, and other crew members also signed.
ship owner replied to them that the cargo owner in charge of loading in Malaysia is going through the procedures, "the voyage is definitely legal", and he will not enter the port again if the procedures are not complete. The
ship continued to drift for half a month. On December 15, the crew members were excited. Unexpectedly, the next night, I received an order to turn back to Madagascar, and drove the ship to a designated position, and met with the escort ship. The agent would board the ship at that time.
Shen Wenbo noticed that there was a problem, so he convened a meeting of crew members and asked the shipowner to present voyage instructions, agency information, cargo information and other materials. After being rejected, he proposed to resign and the shipowner approved it. After discovering that there was a problem with the voyage, Shen Wenbo proposed to resign and was approved.
Captain Yu Tiancai obviously found something wrong, but he still acted according to the instructions and secretly contacted the ship owner to sign a "Personal Interest Protection Agreement", which said that if he violated the law, was detained or was imprisoned, the ship owner would have to pay him a monthly salary of 22,000 yuan, leaving behind legal stains, and compensation would be given 300,000 yuan.
Captain Yu Tiancai secretly contacted the ship owner to sign the "Personal Interest Protection Agreement".
On the morning of December 17, 2018, the ship arrived at the designated location, where you could vaguely see the undulating mountains on the shore. Shen Wenbo later recalled that it might be within the 12 nautical miles of the territorial waters of Malaysia at that time. The escort ship did not appear, the owner asked him to continue waiting, and he "keep in touch".
At this time, a big arrest network was closing towards them.
Sea pursuit
Another ship is coming, claiming to be the Malaysian Navy and requesting the ship to be stopped for inspection. It was around 2 a.m. on December 18, 2018.
The owner ordered the departure, FLYING turned the course, and the boat chased him all the way, with a slightly faster speed.
Shen Wenbo was woken up by the captain and set sail, and stayed on the bridge with the captain, the owner's representative and the second deputy. He was nervous and scared, and prayed not to be caught. The ship owner comforted them, "I will send a helicopter to rescue you." After
escaped along the Horse Island coastline for about 4 hours, the two ships were less than 500 meters apart. The horse army warned that if the ship did not stop, it would be fired.
The dense gunfire cut through the night, and the bridge glass was shattered in an instant. Shen Wenbo fled to the bathroom on the second floor in a hurry, where there were steel plates, which were safer.
FLYING The glass on the bridge was shattered.
The crew member in his sleep was awakened and ran out to watch in panic. When I saw this, I was frightened and hid in the bathroom and the cabin.
escaped to the second pair on the corner of the second floor and was hit by a bullet fragment that penetrated the watertight door. The shipowner's representative's left leg was hit by a bullet, leaving a wound that had been rubbed by a bullet in his stomach. He thought to himself, it's over, he's going to die in the Indian Ocean.
Immediately afterwards, the bazooka hit the ship and alarms sounded everywhere. Fu Weigang went to the cabin to check it out and saw a layer of glass shattering, and he was very scared. The
shooting lasted for an hour or two. After the pause, the water flowed down the deck. The crew thought it was raining heavily. Several bold ones leaned over and looked around and found that high-pressure water guns were spraying at the ship.
The circuit on the ship was shorted quickly, the servo failed, and the ship was out of control. Seeing this, the captain raised his hand to surrender and yelled at the boat, "Don't shoot, let's come out."
crew members raised their hands to line up on the deck. Only then did Shen Wenbo realize that the one chasing them was an tugboat , and more than a dozen soldiers in camouflage uniforms were pointing guns at them. After
put the water diversion ladder, five soldiers boarded the ship, some barefoot.They searched the crew members' mobile phones and cash, asked them to squat down on the bow of the boat, and then went to the living area to search. When they came out, they were wearing the crew members' sneakers. The cell phone, computer, cash, clothes, etc. in the crew room were also taken away, stuffed into the bag, and used a rope to go up to the tugboat.
On the same day, FLYING was dragged toward the port of Malaysia by a tugboat, and arrived at the port of Tamatav on the early morning of December 20. "Life is saved." The crew members breathed a sigh of relief. After
approached the port, dozens of Malaysian government officials boarded the ship for inspection, asked the captain about the owner's information, the purpose of the sailing, etc., and also took videos and photos by local reporters. After
, the crew members were trapped on the boat and took turns to the police station for interrogation. Two policemen were guarding the staircase at the boat. The reason why
was trapped, the Malaysian soldiers told them when they boarded the ship - FLYING smuggled mahogany from 2015 to 2016. The Malaysian side suspected that it was also smuggled this time. Before the ship arrived, they received information, so they had previously sent law enforcement ships and military aircraft. The crew members of
were stunned. Most of them boarded the ship in 2018 and did not know the history of the ship and the status of the ship owner's company, nor did they know that they were going to pull rare mahogany this time. Only the captain and owner representative worked on the ship for 4 years.
A crew member who had worked on FLYING revealed in an interview with Caixin.com that Yang Jianfeng bought the ship in 2014. At that time, the ship was named MIN FENG. He smuggled several times in Malaysia from 2015 to 2016. He did not go through legal procedures and did not enter the port. He only loaded goods at the anchorage. In 2016, the mahogany was seized by Hong Kong Customs. In 2017, he sprayed the ship and renamed it FLYING.
After the crew members asked, the captain admitted that he had gone to Malaysia to load mahogany three times before. Each time the owner said that the procedures were completed. It was not until the mahogany was seized by Hong Kong Customs in 2016 and he was taken away for investigation that he realized that the customs declaration procedures were fake. That time, the cargo was detained, but neither the crew nor the owner were held accountable. He speculated that "the power behind the Redwood (smuggling) group was very strong."
Two families who visited Malaysia in April last year also saw photos of MIN FENG ship hanging from the sea in 2015 on a local Chinese mobile phone. The hull was mainly blue, while FLYING was mainly red and black.
In 2015, local Chinese took photos of MIN FENG hanging mahogany from the sea.
Yang Jianfeng told the crew that the procedures were not entirely because the Malaysian partners deceived him. The ship only had the procedures when it arrived at the loading place. Unexpectedly, they were arrested before they arrived.
In an interview with The Paper, Yang Jianfeng admitted that FLYING is to pull mahogany, but it is just an ordinary mahogany, not an endangered species. When asked whether he had been to Malaysia in 2015 and 2016, he first denied it, and then let it go and pulled fish there. The reporter repeatedly asked if he had smuggled mahogany in Malaysia. He smiled and said, "I really don't know." The owner's representative and second mate who was injured in the shooting of
were taken to the hospital by a traffic boat on the same day and returned to the ship half a month later. On January 17, 2019, the two were taken away by lawyers and police and secretly returned to China under the pretext of going abroad for treatment.
This gave other crew members hope. They felt that the shipowner's representative was the most responsible of all the crew members. "He can go home, and we can go home."
Unexpectedly, 20 days later, they were waiting for jail - two crew members fled privately angered the Malaysian government, causing other crew members to be imprisoned.
Ask for help with difficulty
5 crew members are waiting for the owner to rescue. The ship owner found a local lawyer and first told them that they could return to China before the Spring Festival, but later they could return after the first trial.
The Chinese Embassy in Madagascar sent a consul to assist in handling this matter. He visited the crew members several times and asked the Malaysian side to handle the case fairly to protect the personal safety and legitimate rights and interests of the crew members; urged the ship owner to assume the responsibility of the first person in charge, hire a lawyer, and at the same time ensure the crew’s life and drug needs in prison.
In March 2019, the Malaysian court sentenced 17 crew members to illegally enter the country and refuse to obey, sentenced them to five years in prison, and each person was fined 52.5 million Madagascar francs; the captain and the owner's representative were sentenced to 6 months for the crime of escaping the ship.
crew members couldn't accept it. The shipowner defended himself and the lawyer ran away without doing anything.
Shen Wenbo felt unfair. He had already resigned before being arrested, but was sentenced.Ma Guo arrested them on the pretext of suspected smuggling of mahogany, and convicted of illegal entry after finding no evidence on the ship. Shen Wenbo believes that the cargo ship itself is the cargo ship itself, and the owner and the captain should be responsible. The crew members have crew certificates, and according to international maritime laws, they should not be considered illegal entry.
In addition, the ship entered Malaysia without reporting in advance, "That was the captain's problem, not the crew's problem." The crew's testimony in court and the evidence submitted were not adopted. They were not aware of whether there was sufficient evidence to support the sentence.
The crew members' families went to Fuzhou to find the shipowner Yang Jianfeng and his wife. The first two times, Yang warmly received them, saying that he was trying his best to rescue them and that they would be able to return to China in July and August at the latest. At the request of his family, he repaid his salary for January and February 2019. It has not been released since March.
After that, he kept telling the crew that when negotiating with Malaysia, Malaysia would not have the conditions and no one came out to contact him.
Before the second trial in August last year, the family went to Fuzhou to find him for the third time, and Yang avoided him. The family asked for help from the local government and the public security bureau, but they did not see anyone and returned helplessly.
also started from that time. Yang Jianfeng's attitude changed drastically and he often did not answer the phone or reply to WeChat.
From November 2019, the second instance upheld the original verdict. Malaysia issued an arrest warrant to the two crew members who fled back to China. However, they are still safe and sound in China.
Yang Jianfeng appeared in the family group and told the crew not to care about the results. He said that the Malaysian side had given a plan and he had accepted it and signed the documents next Wednesday. By Wednesday, he said it had changed to next week, the end of the month, and next month... The date of release from prison was constantly delayed, because the Malaysian government wanted an astronomical price, and the two sides did not agree and needed to renegotiate. After the second trial of
, Yang Jianfeng said in the crew's family group that the verdict had nothing to do with the crew's return to China.
crew members felt deceived, sent a letter of help online, wrote to the embassy, and filed an appeal, but there was no news yet.
The family members kept reporting the situation to relevant departments, visited the prison in Madagascar, and sent a letter of complaint to the General Administration of Customs, requesting to investigate the historical records of FLYING entering and leaving the port, thoroughly investigate its smuggling situation, and hold the ship owner accountable.
has done all the solutions that can be thought of, "but no one can help." They couldn't understand why the owner of the ship, who was the first person in charge, was not subject to any sanctions and no one went to investigate him. Only the embassy urged the shipowner to go to Malaysia for negotiations in person. Yang Jianfeng did not dare to go and wanted to find the locals, but he did not dare to give the money first, for fear of being cheated, but if he didn't give the money, the other party would not do anything, and the guarantor could not find it... The matter was in a deadlock.
The family has consulted a maritime lawyer. The lawyer recommends suing the shipowner first and asking for wages. Other compensation is difficult because there is less evidence and the parties involved are all in prison.
The embassy suggested that they hire local lawyers in Malaysia to sue.
Staff at the Chinese Embassy in Madagascar responded to the crew’s family and suggested that they sue the ship owner.
"We are so poor, how can we hire a lawyer in Ma Guo?" A crew member's family said that most of the crew members come from rural areas such as Shandong, Jilin, Jiangsu, etc., and their family is not well-off, and now they have lost their pillars, which is even worse. They have no other way except to keep looking for ship owners and media for help.
They hope that labor, maritime, public security and other relevant government departments will provide some help to urge ship owners, and also hope that maritime lawyers will help them sue.
htmlOn June 11, Yang Jianfeng told The Paper that he had asked a lawyer to apply for bail for the crew. "This time the embassy directly participates in some things, so there should be no problem."However, Shen Wenbo told reporters that Yang had been urging that there was no lawyer's phone number. After the reporter's interview, he sent one. They called it, but the other party said he didn't know and hung up. They found that the call was actually the person Yang Jianfeng mentioned before that he disappeared without doing anything after taking the money.
Looking forward to going home
Shen Wenbo has watched a movie. Because of a plane crash, a man landed on a deserted island. In order to go home, he ate live fish and crabs, and tried every means to make himself survive. Two years later, he returned home as he wished, but his beloved wife was already married to another woman.
"I think this ending is not good at all." 34-year-old Shen Wenbo felt the cruelty of reality and his own insignificance for the first time. When
was first arrested, the crew once hid it from their families, for fear that they would worry, and felt that they would be able to go back soon.
After being imprisoned, chef Chen Xudong had an angina pectoris and wrote a suicide note to his family; chief engineer Cai Yongjun "wanted to escape from prison many times and wanted to commit suicide"; a Burmese crew member's girlfriend proposed to break up, and the young man cried and shaved his head.
Big tube Xu Zejin lost more than 20 pounds. He missed his daughter's wedding and felt very guilty. My wife works in the factory canteen, and she costs 2,000 yuan a month. She has to support her daughter in school and borrow money to pay off her mortgage.
Three-tube wheel Fu Weigang deceived his mother to watch the ship in Madagascar, and he could only return after the ship was sold. Every time he talks with his mother, he has to control his emotions, fearing he will be noticed. My mother asked his younger brother a while ago, "Your brother has been there for quite a while."
More than ten years ago, Meng Fanyi failed in business and owed huge debts. He earned money alone to pay off his debts. He worked as a number of temporary workers. He heard that crew members made money, so he got the seaman certificate in 2016. He felt that he was a grass, and there was too much helplessness in order to survive.
He was hit by this in his life, and he felt unfair. "I did not break the law, I didn't feel shameful, I just felt wronged." Sometimes, he would sit in the small chapel outside the prison for a while, praying to go home as soon as possible.
"My wife said she would stop working when I got back, and she could hardly hold on." 36-year-old Li Yiyin cried on the phone. My wife works in the chicken killing farm in the county town, from five to eight, and put tens of thousands of chickens killed in the designated position every day, so tired that she couldn't even lift her arms. The daughter cried and asked him when he would come back. He said it was almost done and he would wait for his father for a few more days.
In prison, he woke up two or three times a night, and often had headaches during the day, as if he had depression. He said that after he was released from prison, he never wanted to run a boat again, but just wanted to open a small restaurant to accompany his family and children more.
Shen Wenbo originally had a bright future. After finishing working on this boat, he will be the first mate on another boat, and his salary will increase to 26,000. Before the accident, he and his wife had just bought a house in the city and planned to buy a car in one or two years.
Now, the pressure from everyone falls on his wife. She worked in the mall, with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, a monthly mortgage of 3,000 yuan, and had to send some living expenses to her husband, which was really difficult. My parents-in-law have just had surgery and can't work. Now my youngest son can't even get the money for kindergarten.
She rarely complains to her husband, but Shen Wenbo would rather she talk more like she used to. He was not at home when his grandmother died, his two sons were born, and his father had surgery. His family often had no signs on the boat because they were on the boat. Shen Wenbo feels that he owe too much to his family.
The day before his birthday this year, my mother told him to cook two eggs in her voice, "Can you cook in prison?"
"Yes." Both of them choked up.
The time limit for using the phone has arrived, and he hung up the phone in a hurry, wondering how long the mother on the other end of the phone had cried.
Two sons made him a birthday cake with mud in the yard. He remembered that before leaving home, his eldest son hugged him and cried loudly. He teased his son, "Dad is at home and beat you every day, what's the point of being good."
"You can beat me at home every day, don't leave."
Recently, Shen Wenbo dreamed of his family again. In the dream, his wife's face was red, and the two children pulled her long skirt and walked towards him. He comforted himself, and it was one day closer to going home.
In December last year, Shen Wenbo's son wrote to him.
