Shanghai Jiao Tong University's future entrustment app: I will take my motherland flying.

Chapter 54 You tell me, does God just want me to die?

An elderly woman who collects trash nearby happened to pass by, heard the baby's faint cries for help—his last plea to the world—and found him, taking him home.

The old lady's surname was Jiang. She was also a lonely and helpless person, living alone in a low, dilapidated bungalow that resembled a slum.

That winter, Grandma Jiang used warm rice porridge to save a baby who had been abandoned and was barely alive.

With its eyes closed, the baby can only rely on instinct to try and absorb the first bite of food it has to eat in this world. Since it has come into this world, no matter how unbearable or unwelcome it may be, it must try to live.

The baby did indeed survive.

He was adopted by Grandma Jiang and named Jiang Xiao.

When Jiang Xiao was 3 years old, Grandma Jiang found another abandoned little girl and named her Jiang Ling.

From then on, the three of them formed a family. Even though they were poor, even though the old were old and the young were young, they were like wild grass. Even when pressed down by stones, they still sought out the cracks in the stones and tried to live upwards.

Grandma Jiang supports her two grandchildren, who are not related to her by blood, by collecting garbage and doing some simple handicrafts.

Later, Jiang Xiao and Jiang Ling grew up.

They were undoubtedly filial and knew that their family was struggling financially.

Even when they were young, they worked hard to collect garbage, sell recyclables, and do handicrafts, and they never stopped even after they went to school.

The three of them, grandfather, grandmother, and grandson, still live in this small, dilapidated bungalow. They are very poor, but they still try their best to survive.

Perhaps they were naturally intelligent, or perhaps they knew how precious the opportunity to study was.

Both siblings were very competitive and always came in first place in their grade.

But fate seemed unwilling to let them live a good life.

Jiang Xiao, who has a limp, was always bullied and looked at strangely by his classmates when he went to school. When he got older, he wanted to set up a stall to sell things, but there were always people who didn't like him and would find fault with him and overturn his stall.

He was driven to the brink of despair.

But he kept trying, and finally graduated from elementary school with first place and a scholarship, when his scoundrel father showed up.

She became entangled with him from then on.

Because of his biological father's name, he moved directly into Grandma Jiang's house and was to be supported by Jiang, who was only a little over twelve years old.

If that were all, perhaps Jiang Xiao could still tolerate it.

But as it turns out, the man who abandoned his own child and is now clinging to her is a complete scumbag.

That day, when Jiang Xiao went to participate in the city competition and hadn't returned yet, this scumbag took advantage of Jiang Xiao's absence to steal all the money the Jiang family had saved up and gambled it all away. He even tried to sell Grandma Jiang's small house. When Grandma Jiang tried to stop him, he pushed her to the ground. Then, when he saw Jiang Ling, who was growing up, going to save Grandma Jiang, he immediately became lustful towards her.

That time, if Jiang Xiao hadn't happened to come back, Jiang Ling would have been ruined by this drunken scumbag.

That time, despite suffering a head injury and bleeding, 12-year-old Jiang Xiao was like a raging calf, almost killing the man.

It was around that time that the police came to the door.

They arrested the man and put him in jail. It turned out he had committed a crime before, but he had escaped.

The scumbag has been arrested.

But Grandma Jiang is critically ill.

Because she wasn't taken to the hospital in time after the fall, Grandma Jiang missed the best opportunity for rescue.

Even after being taken to the hospital, the doctor said there was no way to save him and told them to take him back home and cherish the last moments of his life.

Upon learning that his grandmother hadn't eaten since noon yesterday, Jiang Xiao had only one wish: to make sure his grandmother was well-fed before she passed away, no matter what.

But his family had no money left, so where was he going to buy food?

It was a cold winter morning, a little after seven. Because of the cold, many people were still asleep. He only saw an elderly man, around fifty years old, hurrying past.

Seeing the bag of steamed buns he was carrying, Jiang Xiao, for some reason, impulsively rushed over, wanting to snatch the buns and take them back to his grandmother.

When the old man encountered the robber, he instinctively resisted. Jiang Xiao also instinctively pushed him away, then snatched the bag of buns and ran towards home.

He dared not turn back or look, only thinking about going faster so he could catch up with his grandmother in her final moments and give her a full meal.

If Jiang Xiao had turned back then, perhaps some things could have been changed.

Jiang Xiao thought that he had only given the person a light push, and that the person would at most fall to the ground, get up, and be fine, and might not even get hurt.

But some things are just so coincidental, and accidents always happen when people are not paying attention.

He gave the old man a gentle push, causing him to lose his balance and fall.

The ground was slippery, and the old man fell backward. As he fell, his head happened to hit a piece of broken glass on the ground.

A shard of glass pierced the back of the old man's head, and blood immediately flowed out. He couldn't even cry for help...

It was a snowy morning in the dead of winter, and no one noticed it in time. By the time someone finally discovered it, the old man was already dead.

When Jiang Xiao rushed home with a bag of steamed buns, he saw that his grandmother's eyes were already closed, and his sister was crying bitterly.

But things didn't develop any more than they have now.

In Jiang Ling's memory, Song Zhining saw that the old man was actually Professor Yu from the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who was cultivating a wheat variety with better quality, higher yield, and a more competitive price.

Professor Yu has already achieved some results. As long as Professor Yu continues his research, within six months, my country's wheat will achieve a qualitative leap, not only supplying domestic demand but also being exported internationally.

The significance of this project is undoubtedly great.

Professor Yu is also a national-level important agricultural research talent.

But now that Professor Yu is dead, his research has come to a standstill because no one can take over.

So this is not just a simple matter of one person dying. Because of Professor Yu's death, the higher-ups took their anger out on Jiang Xiao and also on Suyan City, where he was located. The Suyan City, which was originally planned to be developed, was directly abandoned.

Because Jiang Xiao was still a child and the death was accidental, the law could not do anything to him.

But countless people in Suyan City cursed him. Not only was he cursed, but even Jiang Ling and the recently deceased Grandma Jiang couldn't have a good time.

Jiang Xiao never expected that his first evil thought in 12 years would not only kill someone, but also lead to such a huge result.

"Ah Ling, do you think God just wants me to die?"

"Perhaps only when I die will you and Grandma be alright."

Through Jiang Ling's memories, Song Zhi Ning saw Jiang Xiao take a rope, wrap it around her neck, and strangle her to death.

Because the people of Suyan City hated Jiang Xiao, even though Jiang Xiao was dead, no one was willing to help with his burial. So, little Jiang Ling could only carry her dead brother to the mountains to bury him alone, with one grave for her and one for her grandmother, and they didn't even dare to mark his name on the grave.

Just as Jiang Xiao had said, after his death, Jiang Ling, the only one left, began to have a better life.

He was found and adopted by his aunt, and later went on to attend university, graduate school, and doctoral school. He even entered the National Agricultural College to continue Professor Yu's research on wheat.

From age 20 to 29, Jiang Ling has made countless contributions to the National Academy of Agriculture. Just two years after entering the academy, she continued Professor Yu's research on wheat and succeeded directly. Afterwards, she led the country to make leaps and bounds in agricultural science.

Having become Professor Jiang and gained influence, she also helped Suyan City begin to develop.

However, standing before these two graves now, she still couldn't let go of her resentment and wept bitterly.

Jiang Ling, who wrote down her commission order without hesitation when faced with the suddenly appearing Future Commission App, was writing with tears in her eyes.

If possible, please save her unfortunate brother and grandmother, and save that innocent Professor Yu.

(End of this chapter)