Chapter 1: The Trade

I keep coming back to that crew from the second coffin — the ones who put the lid back on the woman and left her rings where they were. They get two sentences in this chapter, and they're the reason I trust this narrator at all. He opens what other people sealed shut for a living, and he still remembers who kept their hands to themselves.
Which of the two do you find yourself judging harder — the man telling the story, or the crew that worked beside him?
If you'd like to read ahead, early chapters are available on my p*****n: https:///zuochuang