Chapter 763 - 763 763 Returning to Ones Ancestral Roots

Chapter 763: Chapter 763: Returning to One’s Ancestral Roots (19)_1 Chapter 763: Chapter 763: Returning to One’s Ancestral Roots (19)_1 While he was lavishing praise on Xiu Xun, Jiang Bin, who was preparing to leave and head back, happened to overhear. He had a good memory and still remembered the name Xiu Xun. Hearing the principal mention it now, he surmised that it was the same person he had encountered in the restaurant.

It wasn’t the first time he had heard about the hardships of this child’s family.

Thinking of his own nephew, who had been lost and still not found, his heart suddenly clenched, and he turned around to walk back. The cadres following him hesitated for a moment, as they were supposed to catch a train. Why had he suddenly turned around?

Jiang Bin approached the office he had just passed and knocked on the door.

The door wasn’t locked; at his knock, everyone looked over. Amidst their puzzled looks, he walked in and approached Principal Lu: “The Xiu Xun you were just talking about, may I take a look at the information?”

“This is…” Principal Lu was momentarily confused, unable to react. Seeing the person in charge of reporting the names for the math competition giving him meaningful looks, he handed over the documents.

Jiang Bin glanced at the file and asked, “Is this child from a poor family?”

Perhaps because he still held hope, or perhaps because the child’s eyes were too similar to his elder brother’s, Jiang Bin suddenly felt the urge to do a good deed. He hoped that the blessings he would bestow upon this child might reach his nephew, whose whereabouts were unknown.

After scanning Xiu Xun’s file and looking at his academic history, he became even more resolute and looked up, saying, “This student, I will sponsor him until he graduates from university.”

Principal Lu was startled and then overjoyed, asking with uncertainty, “Are you serious?”

Jiang Bin nodded with a serious expression, not seeming to jest.

Once Principal Lu saw this, he was truly delighted, quickly saying, “That’s wonderful! I’ll tell you, this child is genuinely outstanding. If he’s cultivated, he definitely won’t disappoint. And it’s such a shame about his foster parents, not raising such a good child properly. Anyway, he’s lucky to have met a benefactor like you.”

Although he did not know who this man was, seeing so many cadres following him, he did not need to guess to know that sponsoring a child’s education was likely just a trivial matter for him.

“Foster parents?” Jiang Bin had just put down the file when he heard this and his heart skipped a beat, suddenly looking up.

“Yes, foster parents. The child is adopted. I heard he was taken in when he was very little.” Principal Lu was so thrilled that he didn’t notice Jiang Bin’s reaction, continuing to happily say, “If you’re going to adopt, you should raise him well, right? But I don’t know why they are so heartless, letting a child so young work outside to earn money. Now it’s not too bad, since there’s a household in their village that hired him to work, and the treatment isn’t bad. Before that, he would carry bricks at a kiln, and it was only after suffering injuries all over his body that he got the opportunity to attend school.”

As a teacher, there’s nothing he loved more than a diligent student who performed well academically. If it hadn’t been for his own limited means, and the fact that he was already covering another student’s tuition, he would have wanted to sponsor this child’s education himself.

Listening to the principal’s narrative, Jiang Bin felt a string in his mind tighten. A bold thought occurred to him.

The resemblance of the child’s eyes to his elder brother’s was uncanny. Even though the guess might seem absurd, he couldn’t help but want to try it out!