Chinese family hides 100,000 yuan underground, finds it rotten 4 years later

A farmer in Muyang county of east China's city of Suqian, Jiagsu province took a bag of damaged,  took a bag of damaged, rotten bills worth 100,000 yuan (15,700 U.S. dollars) to a local bank for possible replacement. According to Zhang, for reasons unknown, his mother buried the money under their kitchen floor after wrapping it in a plastic bag and sealing it in an iron box over four years ago.

The man who's name was given as Zhang was preparing to get married this summer, so the mother requested her family to dig the money out, only to find all the money badly mutilated. According to him, "My parents were frozen at the site. It was their life savings over the years of hard work in the cities. They just can't accept the loss."

A mutilated currency expert in the central bank's local branch examined the notes and said that the bills can hardly get redeemed. However, he claimed he would try to seek better solutions, saying "After all it's a lot of money, and we hope to help the Zhangs minimize their loss."