Chinese farmer gives mom a piggyback tour of Beijing
A 60 year old farmer from rural China brought his 100 year old mother to Beijing for a tour of the capital, on piggy-back. The sight of the farmer and his centenarian mother-cum-jockey warmed the hearts of Beijing's post-Freudian masses.A 60-year-old farmer from eastern Anhui province carried his 100-year-old mother piggyback on a 10-day tour of Beijing to fulfil her life-long wish to see the Chinese capital.Link Discuss (via New World Disorder)Mr Wang Shoucheng from Quanjiao county forked out 2,000 yuan (S$420) of his own savings and borrowed 3,000 yuan from a credit agency to finance the tour, according to the Chinese portal Chinanews.com.cn.
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