Chapter 6 A Turn Of The Tide

• I sucked in a breath. Ten thousand? To me, a thousand was already a huge sum. Grandma's land was sold for only three thousand. And now, just because Grandpa acted as a guarantor for someone, we have to repay such an astronomical amount for no reason.
• In the presence of the four towering men, I finally realized that the grandmother who was always spirited and spoke in a booming voice in my memories had then become a frail old woman.
• The few men made it clear that they wouldn't leave before they were paid. Left with no other choice, my grandmother could only offer them a third of the three thousand she had just received. “My granddaughter just got accepted into First High School. Please take mercy on us. I'll have more money once I've sold the crops in a while.”