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Liya Su

A thoughtful tourist from China who went searching for a student who had left his schoolbooks in a cafe washroom during a visit to Paris has delighted mainland social media.
The tourist from Zhejiang province in eastern China, whose Weibo account is @Thurmanmaoyizhi_ was enjoying a trip to the French capital on February 16.
While in a café, a waiter told her he had found two Chinese exercise books in the toilet and hoped she could find the owner.
She shared a video clip in her search for the Primary One pupil called Qin Lang, according to a Sina News report.

In a viral video, she has a conversation with the waiter who is off-camera. When he passes her two exercise books, she looks surprised.
“Are these books yours?” He asks.
“No, no, no, they are not mine. Where did you find them?” She responds, and he tells her they had been left in the toilet and asks if she can return them to their owner.
The name on the cover of the exercise books revealed they belonged to a Primary One pupil called Qin Lang, and when the tourist flicked through the pages she laughed when saw he had not completed his homework.
She understood the boy would be in trouble for not doing the work before the start of the new term, so she bought a pencil and spent an evening answering the questions. She was also curious about whether she knew the answers.
At the airport in Paris as she was about to take her flight home, she filmed herself and said she wanted to return the finished exercise books to the pupil soon.
“You’re welcome,” she says with a big smile.
Her video was soon circulated online, and on February 18, Qin’s uncle saw it.
According to Star Video, he said he was going to tell Qin’s mother and he planned to buy a new set of exercise books for his nephew.

The story has gone viral on mainland social media, with many people leaving comments.
“Hahaha, if the boy forgot his exercise books, he probably wasn’t desperate to complete his homework,” one online observer wrote.


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