According to our news report, Jiang Guimin, a sanitation worker in Taizhou Luqiao, earns only about 1,000 yuan per month. However, after finding a bag containing 1.1 million yuan, she chose to wait for the owner in the cold wind.
At around 10 o'clock on the morning of December 25th, Jiang Guimin found a black plastic bag while sweeping near the Luqiao Decoration City on Shanghai North Street in Luqiao District.
"Upon opening it, I saw that it was all money - the symptoms of sinusitis - it's the first time in my life that I've seen so much money, and I was scared stiff."
Jiang Guimin's first reaction was: the owner must be very anxious, and we need to return the money to them as soon as possible.
Not knowing whose money it was, she had no choice but to keep waiting at the place where she found the money.
"At the time, it was very cold, I was shivering with cold, and I was also worried about the safety of so much money, so I held it tightly against me." After nearly an hour, finally a man on a motorcycle came looking along the road and asked Jiang Guimin if she had found anything.
"He said he lost a bag of money, 110,000 yuan. That's when I counted the money, and sure enough, it was 110,000 yuan. So I returned the money to that man."
After recovering the large sum of money, the man gratefully took out a few hundred-yuan bills as a thank-you gift, but Jiang Guimin refused on the spot.
Jiang Guimin is 57 years old, from Fengyang, Anhui Province, and has been a sanitation worker in Luqiao for 10 years. The couple works tirelessly day and night, saving every penny just to save more than 10,000 yuan each year to build a house for their son back home. To save money, Jiang Guimin and her husband live in a 20-square-meter dormitory at the Road North Sanitation Office.
Some people say Jiang Guimin is foolish for not taking the money that was within reach. Jiang Guimin said she only had one thought: "This is not something I earned through work, I can't accept it, otherwise I wouldn't feel at ease."
Our correspondent Liang Ying and our reporter Chen Dong stationed in Taizhou contributed to this report.
(Note: There seems to be some unrelated information or mistranslation in the original Chinese text such as "symptoms of sinusitis" and "psychotic man cuts father 125 times", which are not coherent with the main story and thus omitted or interpreted contextually in the translation.)