Born in the Yang Realm and scattered, why should he die and return to the earthly mansion?
The earthly mansions are similar, only when drifting in other places.
In the world's cognitive dictionary, "death" has always been synonymous with ominous. Our attitude towards death is also ambiguous, on the one hand, we are in awe of death; on the other hand, no one can avoid death, we are afraid of death, and we reject anything related to death: the number "4", the shouyi shop, the hearse...
There is a category of people whose work is closely related to death. Because of their professional relationship, they consciously distance themselves from the people around them. They don't dare to visit the newborn, for fear of bringing ominousness; they don't dare to shake hands with others, because the other party will be suspicious when they know...
Anchor Wang Liang is one of them. He was a hearse driver whose job was to drive the funeral home to pick up the deceased and transport them to the funeral home for posthumous work.
Born in 1983, Wang Liang is a native of Gongzhuling, Jilin Province.
His parents divorced Wang Liang when he was very young and lived separately, leaving the young Wang Liang to be taken care of by his grandparents.
Although Wang Liang was cared for by the elderly when he was young, he often felt lonely. In order not to be bullied, he hid this loneliness and used fierceness to protect himself.
In junior high school, Wang Liang became a well-known "ancient puzzle boy" in the school, and it was not his share to make trouble.
After dropping out of high school, he chose to become a soldier. The harsh life of the army has sharpened Wang Liang's "thorn head", and at the same time, it has also given him unlimited courage to face difficulties in the future.
After changing careers, Wang Liang went to the steel factory, and soon after the steel factory was restructured, he went to drive a real estate boss.
In 2017, he was placed in the civil affairs department and finally got the first "iron rice bowl" in his life.
But the job was not good, because he was assigned to the funeral home, and his job was to transport the deceased from various places to the funeral home.
Wang Liang still remembers the scene when he first worked the night shift.
Guarding the duty room, he not only turned on the lights in his room, but also turned on all the lights in the corridor and bathroom.
Worried, he was afraid that the phone would ring, because it meant that he was going to pick up the body.
Just when Wang Liang prayed countless times in his heart that the first night of his duty would pass safely and unharmed, the phone still rang.
It was the body of a homicide that had died, and it took an hour's drive from the funeral home to the scene.
In the snowy night, after Wang Liang came to the scene alone in a hearse, he took out a body bag and gave it to his family.
After waiting for the family to put the body into a bag and transport it to the hearse, Wang Liang naturally asked: "The family get on the car!" ”
Unexpectedly, the family shook their heads and refused: "We can just take our own car and follow." ”
This meant that Wang Liang had to spend an hour alone in a small hearse with the corpse.
Wang Liang's heart was like falling into an ice cellar, and this one-hour drive was as long as a lifetime.
He remembered his leader's instructions: "Be sure to look in the rearview mirror from time to time, because some corpses may suddenly sit up." Also to prevent an unexpected situation: the body falls out of the trunk. ”
In the dark of the night, the muddy road, looking in the rearview mirror from time to time, thinking about the bloody corpse that had been cut by the knife, Wang Liang, who had countless terrible thoughts in his heart, thought about giving up at that moment.
When he arrived at the funeral home, he immediately jumped out of the car and fled to the guard's room.
In the face of the doorman's inquiry, Wang Liang said "it's okay" on his lips.
But Wang Liang, who was not willing to give up on this, finally insisted on it.
He thought of a way to embolden himself: to talk to the dead.
The topic content is the same: lamenting the brevity of life, blessing the deceased to have a better life in the next life...
More often, these words were actually spoken by Wang Liang to himself.
Summer and winter are the high incidence of death, and they are also the "peak season" for funeral homes.
More elderly people die of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the summer, and the probability of death in a car accident in winter is much higher than that of the other three seasons.
There are also quite local ways to die: drinking outside in winter and spending the night, being frozen alive.
On the highest day, the funeral home received 26 bodies.
In more than 2 years, Wang Liang has transported more than 2,000 corpses, seen thousands of different ways of dying, and has a deeper understanding of death, but also has different feelings about human nature.
In addition to the transport of naturally deceased and mortal bodies, homicides and car accidents are the most common of unnatural deaths.
In the first month of Wang Liang's work, he saw the scene of a rather tragic car accident.
It was a minivan bound for Changchun.
In order to make money, the driver couple pulled 4 passengers who wanted to go to Changchun to wholesale clothing.
Departed at 4am and had a car accident at 5am.
When Wang Liang arrived at the scene of the accident, he saw that the van was cut off from the driver's seat, and 4 passengers died on the spot.
Two passengers were thrown out of the car, one with his entire arm torn off, leaving only a layer of flesh, while the other was knocked off in the head.
What came into view was shocking, coupled with the bloody gas, Wang Liang vomited on the spot.
After Wang Liang, who had calmed down, learned about the situation of a car of people, he was even more upset.
The 4 passengers were the oldest 40 years old and the youngest 29 years old. Drivers and wives who escape the disaster will face justice and compensation.
Drivers earn up to 400 yuan a day of driving back and forth. Like the 4 passengers, he was there to make ends meet.
The main reason for the car accident is because the driver is tired of driving.
Thinking of the 4 lost lives and the huge compensation faced by the driver and his wife, Wang Liang could not say what it was like in his heart.
Compared to car accidents, the deceased who dies as a result of a homicide has a myriad of different reasons.
The son hallucinates from drug abuse, stabs his father to death with a knife, and cuts off his father's head;
There is a business dispute that strangles a business partner and hides it in a suitcase;
There are also those who kill their mistresses and then commit suicide and martyrdom...
Wang Liang was most impressed by the fratricidal case that occurred a few days before the New Year in 2019.
Two brothers with mild intellectual disabilities live together in thatched huts, neither of whom is married, and the family has two sheep.
The younger brother sold one of the sheep for 500 yuan, and the older brother asked the younger brother to share the money for the sheep.
The two who were drinking alcohol had an argument over the matter, and the angry brother immediately ran into the kitchen and took out a sharp knife and stabbed the younger brother, a fatal knife.
Facing these bloody corpses, Wang Liang saw anger and confusion.
The elderly who committed suicide made him see despair and made him reflect.
He remembers an 82-year-old uninsured household. Childless and childless, he lives in a nursing home.
On the day of the suicide, he walked from the nursing home to his sister's house and strangled himself to death with a belt tied to the small shed behind the door of his sister's house.
But if the old man stood up, he could not be strangled. It can be seen that the old man is bent on death.
The old man who has no one to rely on must have had a strong desire for the care of family affection before he died. At that time, Wang Liang had such an idea in his mind.
The deceased has rested in peace, and the living still live in the world with the remnants of the memory of the deceased.
Many times, Wang Liang's hearse also sat in the accompanying family members.
He had seen a young girl who was grieving. Her father died of a heart attack.
Along the way, the little girl was asking "why".
She said that her father brought food to her at noon, and how she died in the afternoon.
Wang Liang understood that it was obviously a long process for her to accept the reality of her father's death.
But there are also family members with calm expressions, and even the opposite.
An old lady died of illness, and along the way, the old lady's family members talked and laughed, as if they were going to the suburbs, rather than going to the funeral home to do the old man's posthumous affairs, which made Wang Liang very puzzled.
And what Wang Liang couldn't accept the most, and what scared him the most, was the child's corpse.
He took the body of a 13-year-old child. The child died of a heart attack.
The father of the grief-stricken child holds the child in his hands. When Wang Liang put the child in the trunk, his father still refused to let go.
The child's family put the child's school bag and clothes next to the child, and also put a huge Transformer toy.
Because of the local custom that "white-haired people cannot send black-haired people", the parents of children cannot go to the funeral home.
At the moment when Wang Liang started the hearse and set off, the child's parents both fell to their knees and cried.
At that moment, Wang Liang, who was also a father, only felt that his eyes were bulging, and his unknown emotions were colliding in his heart, and he didn't know how to solve it.
In the small town of Gongzhuling, Wang Liang will also receive acquaintances.
Once, when he arrived at the location, he discovered that the deceased was the father of his classmate.
The appearance of the classmate's father was still in his mind, but he did not expect that people would leave this world forever.
In close contact with death thousands of times, Wang Liang found himself increasingly reticent.
During his breaks, he also rarely talks to his family.
Sometimes he didn't sleep all night, turning on the lights and keeping his eyes wide open until dawn.
He did not dare to sleep, because as soon as he closed his eyes, the dead flashed before his eyes.
He went out to party with friends, and even if he was driving his own car, he didn't dare to let his friends sit.
On weekdays, the cleaning and repair of the hearse must also be done by myself, because there is no car wash shop willing to receive it.
Wang Liang's emotions are in dire need of a cathartic outlet, and online live broadcasting is his outlet.
In 2018, Wang Liang began to do live broadcasting online.
At first, his expression was very stiff, and the few fans in the live broadcast room wanted him to smile.
Wang Liang, who had not smiled, tried to pull the corners of his mouth, only to find that he had not smiled for a long time.
Slowly, he adapted. He learned to laugh relaxed and naturally, and he also learned to interact with fans in the live broadcast room.
In the first six months of broadcasting, he has accumulated nearly 30,000 fans.
Wang Liang's fans call themselves "Pocket Fans". Because Wang Liang received calls from the car many times during the live broadcast, he would put the mobile phone in his pants pocket by the hand.
In Wang Liang's dark pants pocket, fans followed Wang Liang to experience the world's longest parting scene at close range.
When fans asked, Wang Liang explained: "I originally went to the city hospital to pick up a deceased person who died in a car accident, but because the family did not pay the emergency fee, the hospital did not let it go." I'm back again. ”
Half an hour later, Wang Liang received a call from the leader to drive the hearse to the city hospital, and it was this person who wanted to pick up.
Wang Liang, who has worked for two years, is already familiar with the process of transporting the deceased by hearse.
If there are not many family members of the deceased, he also acts as a porter to help the family carry the deceased to the hearse.
He then explained to his family the customs and etiquette of transporting the deceased.
When leaving the funeral home, in order to get to the destination quickly, he would choose bumpy but time-saving trails; when he took the deceased back to the funeral home, he would choose a smooth road and deliberately slow down the car.
Wang Liang is called "black and white impermanence" by fans, and his live broadcast account is called "Corpse Picker".
Fans have said many times: "I hope you better not be busy." ”
Because once Wang Liang is busy, it means that there is another life to die, and many families are sad for their hearts.
Wang Liang naturally held this kind of thinking, but the world is uncertain, and life always has a definite number.
As a mortal, you can't escape the fate of leaving after all.
What Wang Liang can do is to give the deceased the last decency and let them leave this world with dignity.
"I said to myself, I'm doing all this to build merit for myself." Wang Liang said.
In the small city of Gongzhuling, Wang Liang drove a hearse to almost every corner.
Whether it was the palatial residence of the rich or the still dilapidated countryside, he had set foot in it.
In his view, once a person dies, the differences between life and death become meaningless.
In the funeral home where Wang Liang works, there are many unclaimed and nameless corpses.
The longest one even lasted for nearly 20 years. No one knows about his past.
The deceased remains silent, and to the living, it is the best footnote to life to stand in the present and cherish the present.
Wang Liang's fans once said something that made him extremely moved: "You are a good person, you let the deceased leave the world with dignity, both the living and the dead will thank you, you are a very good person." ”
Since then, Wang Liang has gained a deeper understanding of his profession: "Although my job is not a great job, since I am allowed to pick up the deceased, it is the fate between us..."