Mr. Ye, aged 57, told the reporter that on the afternoon of that day he specially came to Yantian to watch a basketball match. Because a friend had entrusted him to purchase two suites in Nanling, the more than 1 million yuan was for the house purchase. At the time, he carried two bags with him. Originally, the money was in a leather bag. Considering that it would be crowded when the game ended, for safety reasons, Mr. Ye moved the money to another waist bag and tied it around his waist.
The person who found Mr. Ye's more than 1 million yuan in cash was Zhang Yuan, a soldier from the Zhaqing Armed Police Brigade. This 21-year-old young man is from Guangzhou, has been in the army for two years, and this time he was stationed at the Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Senior High School for duty. Zhang Yuan told the reporter that he was on duty yesterday afternoon. Around 5:25 PM, while using the restroom, he found the waist bag hanging on the wall. "I saw that it was a black bag, and at first I thought it was a suspicious item. When I opened a small corner, I found a stack of Hong Kong dollar bills with a denomination of 1000!"
After arriving at the police station and going through detailed verification, Mr. Ye learned that his lost bag had been picked up by an armed police soldier. After counting, it turned out that there were 1.03 million Hong Kong dollars and 7000 Chinese yuan in the bag, not a single cent less. Seeing the honest armed police soldier in front of him, Mr. Ye was moved and tightly held the young man's hand. He took out 30,000 yuan from the bag and tried to give it to Soldier Zhang Yuan to thank him for his honesty, but it was politely refused. "Armed police soldier, you truly are the cutest person!"
Zhang Yuan said that he immediately handed over the bag to the command post and reported it to the brigade leader, then transferred it to the local police station. After counting, Zhang Yuan realized that what he had found was a huge sum of money.
Around 7 o'clock in the evening, when Mr. Ye returned to Bao'an, he realized that he had lost his waist bag containing more than 1 million yuan in cash. He was extremely worried and quickly called 110 to report the loss. Later, unable to wait any longer, he took a taxi back to Yantian to search again. While on the way to Yantian by taxi, he received a call from the Yantian police station. After confirming the news of the lost bag, the officer asked him to go directly to the police station.
When the game was almost over, Mr. Ye left the venue early and used the restroom once. At the time, he hung the waist bag tied around his waist on the hook on the toilet wall. Then, he heard the bustling sound coming from the venue, thinking that the game was about to end. To avoid the crowd, he hurriedly finished and left the restroom, forgetting the waist bag hanging on the wall.
Southern Daily News (Reporter/ Hong Yi Yi, Correspondent/ Zhu Jun Ye, Liu Xing Ming) - Yesterday afternoon, a spectator watching the Universiade basketball match at the Yantian District venue in Shenzhen left a waist bag containing more than 1 million yuan in cash in the toilet. Soldier Zhang Yuan from the Zhaqing Armed Police Brigade, who was performing security duties, picked it up and actively handed it over to the brigade leadership. More than four hours later, the more than 1 million yuan in cash was returned intact at 10:30 PM last night.
The careless spectator left over 1 million yuan in cash in the toilet.
The honest soldier who returned the lost money is a young man from Guangzhou.