Chapter 480: That’s How Rumors are Spread
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.
She knew her in-laws trusted her, but it was important to clarify things. Doubt can be the hardest thing to root out once it takes hold, and once there, you can never quite go back to the way things were.
Yu Jingting’s eyes darkened when he caught her insecurities, he reached out to hold her hand.
Wang Cuihua looked at Suizi sympathetically and complained,
"Look at you, even if you didn’t say anything, we still wouldn’t think you said those things."
Her heart ached a bit for Suizi.