Ultimately, Boss Wang’s will prevailed, and all three children moved into one home the next day. Hu Jing also moved in. However, Leng Zhimeng, while agreeing to let Huang You move in, initially refused to do so herself, opting to live in the neighboring villa instead.
In Leng Zhimeng’s words, Huang You was a girl with no interest in or possibility of inheriting her Boss Huang’s family business. Her own fortune, as the world’s second wealthiest, was definitely going to be left entirely to Huang You, so she didn’t care about competing for Huang He’s inheritance.
However, for the healthy growth of the children, she agreed to let Huang You move in. But this was like saying nothing, as the three-year-old Huang You couldn’t possibly leave her mother. So, at night, she still stayed with her mother in the villa next door. Fortunately, she played with her brothers during the day, growing up together.
Boss Huang’s handling of the children’s matters was decisive, but the subsequent impact was not insignificant. For instance, his mother-in-law was very displeased. She had always disliked Hu Jing and was even more unhappy that Hu Jing’s son had moved in, seemingly with inheritance rights.
But her mother-in-law was too proud to cause a scene, so she simply went to the capital to live.
Speaking of which, in the last decade, her mother-in-law had spent half her time in the capital. Originally, she had gone to the capital to study for the better education of Leng Zhiyuan and Leng Zhi Ting.
Later, when the youngest, Leng Zhiyuan, had already gone to college early, her mother-in-law returned to Wenzhou to live, as life outside the home was certainly less comfortable.
However, after returning and feeling upset, she went to the capital again to live with her youngest daughter, Leng Zhiyuan.
As the youngest child, Leng Zhiyuan was, after all, the most doted upon and favored by her mother-in-law. When she went to study, her mother-in-law was reluctant and wanted to accompany her, but she was too proud. Now, she had a legitimate reason to go.
However, Leng Zhiyuan found it quite difficult. Having already gone to college, no one wants their elderly mother to be constantly managing them. But given she was her own mother, Leng Zhiyuan had no choice but to agree to move out of the dormitory and accompany her mother after school.
In fact, life wasn’t too terrible. Leng Zhiyuan could use school as an excuse to stay at school all day. In the evenings, she returned home to healthy and hygienic home-cooked meals. After eating, she would lock herself in her study to continue her studies, which was quite good, at least she wasn't bothered by the electricity rationing policies in the dormitories.
But unfortunately, her mother-in-law, having been angered by Boss Huang, wanted to vent her frustration. As a result, Leng Zhiyuan was subjected to her mother-in-law’s nagging for one or two weeks straight at night, causing her a splitting headache.
Coincidentally, the biology department where Leng Zhiyuan was located received a task: to prepare for the cultivation of biological seeds that would soon be sent into space.
Thanks to the appearance of Boss Huang, China's basic industrial and scientific research capabilities had greatly improved. The Shenzhou 10, originally launched in 2013, was launched ahead of schedule in 2011.
By 2014, next year, Shenzhou 11, Tiangong-2, and Chang'e-3 were to be launched. China's two most important space projects, the space station and the lunar exploration program, would reach important milestones in 2014, leading to a surge in related tasks.
One of these tasks was to study the physical changes and genetic modifications of plants and animals in a space environment.
As a leading institution in China’s technological development, the biology department of USTC naturally undertook all related tasks.
After careful consideration, USTC decided that the first animals to be sent into space would be a batch of silkworms.
Sending silkworms into space was a first in the world.
A major reason for choosing silkworms was their short developmental cycle, allowing for more extensive testing of the effects of the space environment on growth and development.
In addition, and most importantly, silkworms possessed many special abilities not common in other animals.
Firstly, they could spin silk. What impact would the space environment have on this special animal ability? Could silkworms successfully complete silk spinning and cocooning in a space environment? This was highly valuable for research.
Even more valuable was the question of whether silkworms, if they could successfully form cocoons, could then undergo metamorphosis in a space environment, developing from larvae into moths and emerging from their cocoons.
This point held greater research value and had never been studied before. Writing a paper on it would undoubtedly have a stunning effect, so it was ultimately decided to send a batch of silkworms into space.
However, a dilemma arose regarding plants. The variety of plants was too vast, making it difficult to choose. It was also important to select plants with significant differences to best observe the effects of space on them.
Ultimately, USTC decided to send rice and Arabidopsis thaliana into space. They would be placed in specially designed incubators and sent directly into space with Tiangong-2 to study how these plants grew and developed in space.
The reason for choosing these two plants was simple. The former was the staple food of the Chinese people, even considered one of their spiritual totems. Rice was definitely going to be sent into space.
The name Arabidopsis thaliana might seem unfamiliar, but it is a typical green leaf plant with almost all the characteristics of green leaf plants. Therefore, sending it into space would allow for the maximum observation of changes in green leaf plants in space.
Currently, these two plants, destined for space, were being meticulously cultivated in USTC’s biology department, as they were to be sent into space as seedlings.
Such a significant and rare scientific research project naturally wouldn't fall to a genius student like Leng Zhiyuan. These two projects were taken by the Dean of the Biology Department. Not to mention that Leng Zhiyuan’s identity was not exposed; even if it were, they wouldn't give this precious opportunity to her just because she was Boss Huang’s sister-in-law.
However, Leng Zhiyuan’s research capabilities were indeed very strong, and she was intelligent, already having some renown at USTC. She not only successfully secured her postgraduate recommendation but also ultimately earned the opportunity to participate in this space biology program.
Although Leng Zhiyuan couldn't cultivate seedlings to send into space, she could be responsible for cultivating a batch of seeds to send into space.
Plant seedlings in incubators took up too much space, so there were only two slots available.
However, seeds were different. Packed into vacuum bags, they could be sent directly into space, requiring very little space and having low weight. Therefore, over 160 types of plant seeds were sent into space this time. Leng Zhiyuan was responsible for one of these seed types: lotus seeds.
Originally, this task wasn't particularly troublesome. Leng Zhiyuan didn't need to cultivate any special lotus seeds; she just needed to cultivate pure lotus seeds that could clearly show genetic changes.
For a professional genius like herself, this was not a difficult task, and there was sufficient time, nearly a year.
However, with her mother’s arrival, to avoid her nagging, Leng Zhiyuan decided to proactively work overtime in the laboratory to reduce the time she spent with her mother and the number of times they met.
Since she had more time, Leng Zhiyuan naturally had extra time to tinker with things she wanted to do.
For example, while diligently researching, Leng Zhiyuan discovered a gene segment that existed in almost all animals and plants, including human genes.
Of course, there were quite a few such gene segments, so it wasn't unusual. However, for some reason, Leng Zhiyuan found this particular gene segment to look somewhat peculiar.
Therefore, she used her extra time to experiment. She planned to find a way to completely remove this small gene segment from a lotus seed and then see if such a seed could grow in a space environment.
Although this seed was not part of the original plan, all lotus seeds were the responsibility of Leng Zhiyuan herself. No one would actually check if the DNA of these lotus seeds had any issues, so as long as Leng Zhiyuan wanted to do it, no one could discover any problems.
Furthermore, ten lotus seeds were sent into space at once. Altering the genes of one of them wouldn't affect the actual research results. Thus, Leng Zhiyuan began her experiment. It wasn't until more than half a year later, when the rocket was launched as scheduled, that no one knew what immense changes this single seed would bring to the world.
The entire year of 2013 slowly passed. Despite various minor issues, it was still a year of rapid development for Jiangnan Group, with growth in all business segments and related profits.
By the end of 2013, the Original God Project was officially commenced. Although the final design of the collider had not yet been finalized, this did not prevent the infrastructure-building madmen from erecting the structure dozens of meters underground, into which the equipment could be placed later.
Meanwhile, a professor from Harvard University in the United States published a short paper. In the paper, the professor stated that while processing graphite, his team accidentally discovered an allotrope of carbon with a special structure, which possessed quite unique properties. The team ultimately decided to name this allotrope graphene.
Clearly, the force behind this professor was the Goldman Sachs Group.
This behemoth finally couldn't resist profiting from black gold.
Professor Parkinson was initially rather opposed to this, as he believed Goldman Sachs had not fully mastered all the technologies for black gold. For instance, they still hadn't discovered how to produce the crucial material used to manufacture quaternary chips.
Therefore, he argued that it should continue to be kept hidden, at least until their own company could manufacture quaternary chips, and only then should it be officially announced and monetization begin.
However, the board of directors at Goldman Sachs could no longer wait. Ultimately, Professor Parkinson’s opposition was in vain, and Goldman Sachs finally opened its greedy maw to black gold.