Suizi felt there was something off in her mother-in-law's words.
After much contemplation, she realized the problem lay in the term "Fourth Master".
"My father is called the fourth in the family, which isn't odd, and Jiaojiao was born the year my father passed away, so it's not weird for them to know it; but what's odd is that people in our village call my father Fourth Brother, Fourth Uncle, or Uncle Fourth, but they never call him Fourth Master. As for the neighbors, nobody knows what my father did outside the village."
Everyone thought he went away and did manual labor for years, not knowing he was a powerful figure in the outside world.
"Now, the only people who know my father's real identity are our family, Yang Jinhuan and Shen Liangyin. If I really said those things, I would only talk about how my father-in-law is, never about how Fourth Master is."
The last sentence marked Suizi's self-exoneration.
