These days, borrowing money was tough. The poorer you were, the more people looked down on you. After weighing her options, she realized that the only person who could help her was her grandmother.
Despite their old age, her grandparents were supported by their three sons. But her grandfather had been a very famous local landlord when he was young. She remembered when their old house compound was remodeled into a tile-roofed house, they dug up a large jar of silver coins from the ground.
There were tens of thousands of them.
When she was ten and had her ears pierced, her grandmother gave her a silver coin for her earrings.
If it weren't for the lack of options, she would definitely not ask to borrow money. As a younger member of the family, borrowing money from an elder inevitably made it seem like she was coveting their funeral savings, which would tarnish her reputation in the rural village.
