A 63-year-old Chinese woman, Ding Liang
got a rude shock recently when she was told by her son not to come
visiting because she was too ugly and would embarrass him, according to
local media, SMACK. Liang had traveled five hours from her village to meet her son and his newborn child in the Hangzhou province of China.
Years ago, her son moved to the city to
pursue a college education – he did well at school, landed a job at a
reputable car dealer shop and got married. When she attended the wedding
dressed like a peasant, her son was very furious, refusing to recognise
her as his mother.
Soon after, the son began to ignore Ding
and the rest of the family back in the village. He would never call and
hardly spoke to her even when she called.
“I don’t mind, I know he has his own life
now, so I understand that he doesn’t call and only speaks to me when I
ring him,” Ding said. “But when he rang me the other day to say that he
had had a baby, I wanted to visit him and bring my grandchild some
gifts. He said I shouldn’t come, that I would embarrass him because I’m
too ugly.”
On the day of her journey, Ding woke up
at 4:00am and dressed in the clothes that she had purchased specially
for the occasion. Unfortunately, she didn’t have her son’s address, and
when she called him, he didn’t answer the phone.
“Before 10am, I was wandering here and
there searching. Two people asked me what I was looking for. I told them
I was looking for my son who is a car salesman. Several others also
tried calling him but he didn’t answer. One of them texted him
pretending to be a potential customer, but he only got a reply stating
that ‘Chief Xu was on a business trip to Xiamen’.”
Disappointed, Ding finally decided to return to her village with all the gifts and packages she had brought for her grandchild.
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