北省乐亭县大相各庄乡东翟各庄村的李振金、李振友、李振仓是亲兄弟,都四十多岁了。在麦收前这段农事相对清闲的时间,哥仨和同村的朱福生结伴来到滦南县的咀东码头打零工。他们准备一直干到麦收,干好了,一人能挣到两三千元钱,这可能顶大用场呢,最起码,孩子的学费是没有问题了。2000年4月6日早晨,他们4人和来自滦南、滦县、安徽、河南以及东北等地的另外25人,跟着雇主杨 Li Tingjin, Li Zhenyou and Li Zhencang, from the village of Zhaigezhuang in the east of Datang Zhuang Village in Laoting County of North Province, are both brothers and 40s. Before the wheat harvest, the farmland was relatively idle and the time came for Brother and the same village Zhu Fusheng to go to the pier in Luannan County to work odd jobs. They are ready to dry until the wheat harvest, do a good job, one can earn two or three thousand dollars, which may be of great use, at the very least, the child’s tuition is no problem. On the morning of April 6, 2000, four of them and another 25 from Luannan, Luanxian, Anhui, Henan and Northeast China, followed by their employer, Yang