Elderly Jing dies in accident while carrying food for wife after Zhang buys out all his farm produce, treats him to his first lavish meal
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenFran Luin BeijingPublished: 6:00pm, 6 Jul 2026The Chinese social media was shaken by a Good Samaritan deed that ended in tragedy when an elderly farmer died in a car crash shortly after receiving kind help from an influencer.
The influencer, who has dedicated himself to helping farmers in central China’s Henan province and has 84,000 followers, posted a video of himself assisting an 81-year-old farmer on June 25.
The influencer, surnamed Zhang, bought all the vegetables the elderly man was selling. The farmer, surnamed Jing, gave Zhang a discounted price of 0.80 yuan (12 US cents) per kilo.
The spinach, cucumbers, and eggplants Jing sold weighed 75kg in total and cost Zhang 60 yuan (US$8.8).
Like many farmers, Jing brought the vegetables he had planted to the city for sale every day.
