"Yes, my father was right. Dumb Girl has had her eyes on you for a long time. She hated your grandfather for intervening and always said she wanted to find a chance to kill that old man!" My cousin stood up to testify, somewhat nervously saying, "Your grandfather is the old man, that was Dumb Girl's words, not mine!"
"Dumb Girl killed your grandfather, you've killed her, but you can't kill us!"
The He Family was originally prosperous. In the past, they all relied on the direct lineage that controlled the sacrificial lifeline. Now that the tide has turned, everyone is making plans for themselves, and they understandably don't want to be implicated by Dumb Girl's evil deeds.
When the wall is down, everyone pushes; the He Family fell into chaos internally. With many people and a lot of gossip, they started revealing the misdeeds of the direct lineage to redirect the villagers' anger and to clear their own names.
