The father of an ailing two-year-old boy from eastern Shandong province discovered that honesty paid off after he returned a lost wallet to its owner, who offered him 200 tonnes of turnips as a way of funding the bone marrow transplant his son needed.
Tang Shaolong, a farmer from Jining, had taken his son to Jinan, the provincial capital, to treat hemophagocytic syndrome, a blood condition, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Tuesday.
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