Chinese dad funds bone marrow transplant for his son by selling 200 tonnes of turnips

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.