Borrow a person?
If it had been borrowing money, Yue Xiaofang would have understood, but she couldn't grasp what borrowing a person meant.
Guo Xue explained, "You know my natal family has only one brother, very few in number, so I wanted to ask if I could borrow some people from you."
There wasn't much point in hiding anything, Yue Xiaofang would find out when she went to the village anyway, so Guo Xue simply laid the whole matter bare.
Yue Xiaofang knew about the previous situation; Guo Xue married Chang Tiancheng from the same village.
The Chang Family was quite wealthy, and Guo Xue quickly gave birth to a son after marrying into the family, which solidified her position. Many people in the village envied her.
Guo Xue had always taken pride in this, feeling lucky.
But as the economy developed, many villagers grew dissatisfied with just tilling the land for food.
They simply left their fields to be tended by their fathers or other elders and went to the city to work.
