Fashion

Odds & Ends

Health

Travel

Epicure

Son repays father's debts after 67 years

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-01 13:58

An octogenarian in Jiangxi province spent 67 years repaying his father's debts even though most people never asked for it.

His father was killed when Zheng Yidong was 17. The father operated an oil mill.

Zheng, now 84 and a poor farmer, kept his father's account book that showed he owed tung, tea-seed and rape oil to 106 people.

A year later, he began repaying one family after another although no one had asked him to do so. As time passed, some of the people who were owed, died and their offspring were moved by Zheng's honesty.

On May 19, Zheng finished all repayments that totaled 400 kg of tung oil, 200 kg of tea-seed oil and 200 kg of rape oil. He sighed: "My father is no longer a debtor in the other world."

(www.jxnews.com.cn)