Back To The 80s: President's Doted Wife novel Chapter 541

Chapter 541: Chapter 541: Women Can’t Sit at the Table

Auntie’s whole family came over, and with the increase in people, we set up two tables for lunch, still divided by gender, one for men and one for women. Cheng Su brought out the last dish before finally removing her apron and sitting down.

Auntie stared, gawking at Cheng Su, and even Liu Wenjing seemed bewildered.

"Auntie, what’s wrong? Is there something on my face?" Cheng Su asked, touching her cheek.

Auntie’s expression was strange, and after hesitating, she said, "Back home, when we have guests over, it’s always the men who keep them company, and during meals, women never sit at the table. They only serve from the kitchen and at the tableside and eat separately in the kitchen afterwards."

Cheng Su’s face turned green.

"Usually, it’s the men who accompany the guests, and the women cook the meals. Even after they’ve finished, they aren’t allowed to sit at the table. Otherwise, it would be laughable. Even during the meal, they shouldn’t enter the room, just wait outside to clear the table. No woman from any family should sit at the table, otherwise, it’s seen as ill-mannered, a lack of upbringing. Just look at my daughter-in-law; she’s never sat at the table," Auntie continued as if she hadn’t noticed Cheng Su’s changing complexion, turning to Mother Qi, "Don’t you have this custom here?"

Mother Qi was somewhat embarrassed: "We don’t have that here."

"Then I guess our place follows the ancestral traditions and rules more closely," Auntie said with a nod, making a big deal of it.

By this point, Cheng Su’s face had turned from green to black.

Qi Fenglian, seeing that things weren’t going right, chimed in, "Auntie, you have so many customs over there! We don’t have them here. Even my in-laws don’t have such customs!"

Women not allowed at the table during a meal? What kind of international joke is this? This is the progressive 1980s, not the Great Qing Dynasty, okay?

After hearing Auntie’s bizarre views, any sympathy Cheng Su had for her hard-luck aunt vanished into thin air.

"Auntie, do you always follow this too?" Cheng Su asked through clenched teeth.

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