Chinese man buys 12,000 yuan engagement ring in coins after promise to childhood sweetheart
Two jewellery shops in Fuyang, Anhui province, refused Liang Liang's request to buy a ring using change weighing 150kg, before a third finally agreed
A 30 year-old Chinese man used coins worth a total of 12,000 yuan to buy a diamond ring to propose marriage to his former childhood sweetheart, a mainland newspaper reports.
The man, known as Liang Liang, carried the money to the shop in Fuyang in Anhui province by wheeling a tricycle filled with stacks of coins weighing a total of 150kg, the Yingzhou Evening News reported.
The coin with the largest value used in China is worth just one yuan.
Four employees spent half a day counting the coins, which had come neatly wrapped in newspaper.
Liang said he was fulfilling a promise to his fiancé made 20 years earlier when she was his childhood sweetheart.
“Do you remember 20 years ago, I said I would earn money and marry you?” Liang was quoted as saying when he proposed. “Now I’ve earned enough to buy you a ring, please marry me!”