Xiaomei was startled and stood up timidly, squatting with the bowl in her arms and walking towards the kitchen.
This action immediately angered Su Nian and Tang Xin. Seeing the two daughters-in-law glaring at Chu Dahai, Chu's mother quickly stood up to smooth things over. "I think Xiaomei should eat with us. You just arrived today, and I don't know your rules."
"There's nothing in the kitchen. Even if Xiaomei goes there, there's nothing to eat. So let's just leave it like this for now!"
Chu Yinghao looked down on women. He raised his eyelids and was about to refute, but he heard his eldest brother say, "Yinghao, our family has never had the habit of women eating separately. While you are here, let Xiaomei eat at the table with us!"
Chu Yinghao thought about it, then waved his hand generously and said to his daughter-in-law Xiaomei, "Then you can sit down!"
Xiaomei sat down cautiously and only dared to eat the food in front of her.
Su Nian saw this and felt that Xiaomei was very pitiful, so he forgot any prejudice he had against her in the beginning.
In order to ease the atmosphere at the banquet, Chu's father quickly raised his glass to drink the reunion wine. Su Nian was pregnant and drank fruit juice. Pi Dan saw this and refused to drink the drink in front of her. She also made a fuss about wanting to drink fruit juice.
So Chu's mother was about to go squeeze the juice, but was stopped by Chu Beichen, "Mom, you sit down, I'll go!"
Chu Beichen felt heartbroken when he saw how Chu Yinghao's family treated their daughter-in-law, so he tried his best to do something for his mother, and also to let Chu Yinghao's family see that in his family, women have a very high status.
Unexpectedly, Chu Beichen was pulled back by his cousin Dahai as soon as he left his seat. "Brother, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but how can you, a grown man, do the work that women do?"
As soon as Chu Dahai said this, he heard two chuckles on the table. It turned out that Su Nian and Wu Lan could no longer hold back their laughter.
Chu Yinghao's expression suddenly changed. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Chu Nancheng also stand up and said with a smile, "In our family, it's the men who do the work. The wives just need to sit and wait for the delicious food!"
Chu Nancheng took the glass from Chu Beichen's hand carelessly, ran to the juicer, and without even peeling the orange, threw it directly into the juicer, randomly squeezing out a glass of juice. Then he walked over and handed it to Pi Dan, saying in a frightening tone, "This is what you asked for, you must drink it!"
Pi Dan was a lazy character who bullied the weak and feared the strong. Upon hearing this, he quickly took a big sip and frowned at the bitterness.
Chu Nancheng was finally satisfied and sat back in his seat, "Keep going!"
Chu Beichen smiled slightly and pulled Chu Dahai to sit down.
Chu Dahai had never expected that the Chu family would actually behave like this. While the brothers Chu Nancheng and Chu Beichen were working, their wives sat steadily at the dinner table, showing no intention of doing anything themselves.
Chu Dahai felt very disdainful in his heart, thinking that his uncle's family had no rules.
No matter how unhappy they were, they still had to drink the reunion wine. Everyone stood up and clinked glasses. Su Nian and Wu Lan discovered that Chu Dahai and his son, as well as their daughter-in-law Xiaomei, refused to clink glasses with them!
Maybe he feels that his authority as a man has been challenged!
Su Nian and Wu Lan didn't care. After drinking some wine, they sat down and picked out the dishes that were not damaged by the preserved eggs.
After a few glasses of wine, the atmosphere at the table became harmonious again, and the topic turned to Chu's father's old mother.
"I'm almost eighty years old. How's your health lately?" Father Chu asked with concern.
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