After Rebirth, Minor Character Only Wants to Level Up
Chapter 25 - 024: Cooperation

Chapter 25: 024: Cooperation

To Ye Ling, seeing Shen Bin at this time was indeed unexpected. Although Shen Bin and her father had already walked far away, Ye Ling still remembered Shen Bin’s appearance just from that one glance. The originally blurred figure in her memory gradually became clearer.

Not handsome in the tall and handsome sense, Shen Bin came from the countryside, and with constant company training, his skin was darker. Tall and burly could describe him, and as a worker, his gait was agile. His facial features were very clear, as if chiseled with a knife, having sharp contours.

Short hair, a worker’s uniquely resolute face with almond-shaped eyes, mostly inner double eyelids, giving a clean and bright look. However, due to the worker’s notably upright facial features, these almond eyes tend to be overlooked, and appear quite dignified when expressionless.

Plus, Shen Bin’s reticent nature gives off a cold impression.

Even until her previous life divorce with Shen Bin, Ye Ling felt he was too cold, too unbearable for a woman. Yet the last time they met on the street, Shen Bin showed care in a faint way, without any sarcastic remarks because of Ye Ling’s past hurt. Seeing her downcast, he said nothing, simply took out all the money in his pocket without counting and stuffed it into Ye Ling’s hand.

At that time, Ye Ling had come back from the hospital with a diagnosis, without any friends around her, even her relatives abandoned her. Yet the person she had hurt did not hit her when she was down after meeting her. In the end, he gave her money.

In this life, besides her grandmother, Ye Ling feels most guilty about Shen Bin. After all, she made Shen Bin the subject of judgment from others, yet he could still offer kindness to her. This makes Ye Ling feel very remorseful towards him, and if there’s a chance in this life, she will definitely return Shen Bin’s kindness.

Celebrating New Year at the company is actually quite simple. Besides employees making dumplings together, there’s a party with the employees and their families. The party involves various performances with singing, eating seeds and fruits, and at midnight they cook dumplings together, marking the end of the festival.

In this era, every family’s conditions are poor, life was hard, but the company life was relatively better. At least there was no daily starvation; the company distributed some rice, flour, oil, and salt. However, what they gave was limited, and looking back five years, company life was even harder. During that time, there was no distribution to relatives, and the vegetables eaten in winter at the company were dried vegetables harvested in autumn from each team. So life nowadays is comparatively better.

During the party, families sit in the front row, employees sit at the back. Families are arranged to sit together, while children are grouped separately.

This arrangement is meant to strengthen the bond between families and their husbands who are frequently at the company, as the men don’t often come home. Kids are organized together for their own entertainment, fostering conversation and activity.

No one at the company knew these kids didn’t get along; kids from the logistics faction gathered together, boys maintained their self-image, avoiding conversation with girls to prevent mockery, forming their own group. The girls were led by Song Mei, while Jiang Yan and Gao Tian stuck together; Ye Qian was welcome everywhere, sitting without being identified with any faction, only Ye Ling was isolated.

Ye Ling doesn’t mind quarreling with the kids; moreover, she doesn’t want to deal with them, so she enjoys the quietness, finding a comfortable posture leaning into the chair, when Ye Qian leaned over.

"Sister, have an orange." Ye Qian handed her orange over.

Before Ye Ling could react, Song Mei sneered from the side, "Ye Qian, everyone only gets one, your sister ate his, if you give her yours, what will you eat?"

"I don’t like eating it." Ye Qian responded with a sweet smile. _{free we\bnove(l).com}

"Everyone only gets one, we only eat it once a year, saying you don’t like it, who would believe that? We know you’re kind, wanting to give it to your sister." Song Mei looked at Ye Ling, as if making an offering.

Ye Ling raised her eyes, readily took the orange from Ye Qian’s hand, "Since you don’t like it, let me enjoy it for you."

Under everyone’s scrutiny, Ye Ling skillfully peeled the orange, devoured it in three bites, then raised her head smilingly at Ye Qian, "In the future, just give me what you don’t like eating, others might misinterpret, but I know you truly don’t enjoy eating fruit."

In other words, whatever misunderstanding others have doesn’t matter to me, I don’t mind, I’m a good sister.

Ye Ling wouldn’t let Ye Qian have all the advantage; whether she ate or not, Ye Qian would still earn a reputation for modesty. Since Ye Ling wouldn’t gain anything from it either way, she might as well benefit practically.

Ye Qian, having previously been surprised, wasn’t shocked at her sister’s actions now, still smiled sweetly, "Okay."

Including Song Mei, a few and Zhao Guodong among the boys couldn’t think like this, surprised by Ye Ling’s brazen behavior, while many remained disdainful; but Zhao Guodong’s eyes brightened.

Song Mei didn’t care whether Ye Ling heard or not, or Ye Ling’s attitude, pulling Jiang Yan, said, "Never seen someone with such thick skin. You should keep an eye on your seeds and apples in front, lest you feel bad eating them and they end up in someone else’s stomach."

"Country bumpkin." Among the boys, Wang Ping directly spat out.

Zhao Guodong turned back to glare, Wang Ping didn’t understand what he said wrong, "What’s the matter?"

Zhao Guodong seemed to recall something, his face sank, "Yes, country bumpkin."

Helping her stand up didn’t result in any returns, isn’t that foolish?