After Rebirth, Minor Character Only Wants to Level Up

Bai Xue was at home calculating the money in her elder daughter’s hands. Seeing her husband return not long after leaving and looking rather displeased, she would have usually asked him about it immediately. However, considering her husband’s dissatisfaction with her over the past few days, she suppressed the questions in her mind and began talking about family matters and the items to be taken away.

Ye He Ping was feeling annoyed and responded impatiently with a couple of mumbles before lying down on the bed to rest. Bai Xue noticed this and refrained from saying more. Realizing the time, she got up to cook. After arranging the funeral for the elder at the town, she bought some food back, which meant she no longer had to eat hard cornbread from yesterday onwards. Bai Xue heated up the rice porridge and steamed the cornbread, and after everything was ready, she reheated the leftover white fungus stir-fry from yesterday and put the dishes on the kang table, calling the family to eat.

Ye He Ping drank only half a bowl of porridge before putting down his chopsticks, "Lingzi, when your grandma was in the village, how did the Wang Family treat you?"

This one sentence drew the attention of all three women toward him.

Ye He Ping ignored them and kept his eyes fixed on the elder daughter beside him.

Ye Ling couldn’t eat anymore and put down her chopsticks as well, "They just acted normally. The older folks in the team didn’t have to work in the fields. Before going to the city a few years ago, the team said it was too busy and let Grandma join in the planting. She worked for a day before falling ill the next day. Wang Changjiang hurriedly called a team cart to send Grandma to the town, and the doctor advised that she was too old to do heavy work. Afterward, we received your telegram, and hurriedly caught the train to the city on the same day. When we came back from the city, Grandma had fallen ill and had a fever that lasted a whole day before finally going down."

Toward the end, Ye Ling’s voice also choked up, "Grandma kept worrying about my tuition fees, so we went to the station to sell wild vegetable dumplings. All the family’s private land was planted with corn. Later when Dad returned, Grandma had an accident."

Yes, when Father came back, Grandma passed away.

Ye Ling knew that speaking about this would cause her father to feel guilty for a lifetime. But if blaming her for being cruel was necessary, then let it be. Feeling guilty for a lifetime couldn’t bring her grandmother back, besides, it was father’s illness that started all this. Otherwise, how could Grandma have suddenly passed away?

Echoes of last night’s shouting between Father and Mother still lingered. Though Ye Ling wasn’t present to hear what was said between Father and Grandma, seeing Grandma’s awakened state and her helpless demeanor while instructing her affairs made Ye Ling sense Grandma’s disappointment towards Father.