Gold blush: China kindergarten boy gives classmate US$15,500 worth of gold bars to ‘future wife’, shocks parents, amuses social media
- Boy misunderstands when parents tell him gold is for woman he will marry
- Embarrassed mum and dad of girl immediately hand back treasure
A little boy who gave gold bars worth US$15,000 to a girl in his nursery school class as an “engagement” gift, has amused mainland social media.
On December 22, in Guang’an, Sichuan province, southwestern China, the little girl was thrilled to receive the extraordinary gift – two 100-gram gold bars – and excitedly showed them to her shocked parents.
An online video captured the child holding an open red box, which contains the treasure, and when her mother asks what they are, she innocently responds: “I don’t know.”
The deeply concerned parent tells her to return them to her classmate the next day and contact the boy’s family, who apologise.
“The boy’s parents said they had told their son that the gold bars were intended for his future wife, but they didn’t expect him to secretly take them out and give them to our daughter,” the girl’s mother said.
“The whole situation was both amusing and bewildering for them.”
She reminded other parents to be vigilant so that something like that does not happen with their children.