Mooncakes As Gifts Stuffed With Renminbi Cash (Pictures & Video)
Posted Oct 10, 2009 by Lindsay Britney
From Sohu Blog–金泉少侠, written in Chinese on September 29, 2009.
Several days ago, I received a call from a official of Suzhou. He invited me as a guest to pay a visit at his house. He said the Lunar Mid-August Festival or Mooncake Festival] was coming and asked me to go to Suzhou to watch the moon. I admitted my understanding was rather poor, so initially I didn’t understand him. Later he said he’d like to reciprocate me for the things I helped him on his restaurant. Facing the kind invitation, I had no choice but go to Suzhou to pay him a visit. About the detail who he is, I don’t spill the beans here. It was a very rare opportunity when I got to know this official. Some time ago, when he was navigating the internet, he ran across the online news that I reported. Then I made several searches on my internet moniker 金泉少侠 (literally golden spring young hero) and found a lot of reports I authored. He found my blog, and through communicating using the QQ, I realized he was a local official [in Suzhou]. Later he said he had some difficulties in opening a restaurant and asked me if I could mastermind a plan for him. And I embarked an on-site inspection and became acquainted with his circumstances, I offered him a proposal. Later I authored a piece of news for him and Anhui Satellite TV reported it. In the end, the things concerned with his restaurant was solved what what came naturally.
It had since several months passed. Unexpectedly, this official still remembered me, what a real treat! During the days I was visiting his house, he solely took me to tour the various scenic spots so that I visited every local place there was to do. Every meal I was well-fed and served nice drinkings, enjoying what I had never experienced before. On the time when he saw off me for Guangzhou, the official gave a hongbao (red package stuffed with money), two boxes of mooncakes, and some local specialties as well. After I returned to home, I opened the hongbao and found 8k cash. Those specialties were just eaten up these two days, the remaining two boxes of mooncakes were kept untouched. As the Lunar Mid-August Festival is yet to arrive, so I didn’t want to eat them. Yesterday I became a bit gluttonous, thus I opened one box and was to pick one to eat. Unanticipatedly, after removing the cover, I was shocked to find that every mooncake had a quite wide crack. Looking upon, I was stunned! When I broke off one mooncake, suddenly came out a little square shape folded paper wrapped inside a transparent plastic membrane. Carefully checked, they were big 100-Yuan nominal banknotes. When the white paper was slowly unfolded, my goddess, there were ten 100-Yuan banknotes inside together. After the “One-Thousand-Yuan” folded paper was pulled out, there was a big hole, like those left there following the potatoes were digged up, existing in the interior of the mooncake
One box had four mooncakes, so two boxes eight, when summed up, there were 8k altogether. I had seen using sky-high priced cigrattes, gold, hongbao, expensive wines and luxury watches, and hidden rules as the gifts, but never noted there was the cash stuffed inside the mooncake as the gift. Mooncake ah! This was actually a food ah! Food security ah! Could mooncakes stuffed with the cash produced in the factory? Apparently, there was someone who had maneuvered behind the scene, that is, the “One-Thousand-Yuan” folded paper was stuffed into the mooncakes after they were purchased and then holed.
Looking at these mooncakes, the more I thought, the more I felt puzzled, the official couldn’t have done this kind of things himself. In order to determine what I assumed, I called the official who gave the mooncakes. He told me the mooncakes were the gifts someone who asked him to do things. He noticed the mooncakes was out of the grade he desired, an also his family was never lack of mooncakes every year, so he didn’t pay the heed and made them a present of me. Surprisingly, the person who asked the official to do things did something fancy out of the ordinary, now your mooncakes are at my hand, don’t know if that official has done things for you?
Note: The phenomenon described in the story could have happened in China, considering China is a society where some corrupted officials did take gifts with big money stuffed inside the package. But after finishing doing the translation, I googled who 金泉少侠 is and found what his agenda is being aspired, I could realize what he said in the article might be fabricated.
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