I'm Petty and Small-Minded-So What?

After Li Ye drove away from Wen Leyu's home, he met up with his Older Sister Li Yue, Li Dayong, Wang Jianqiang, and the others at the agreed location. The group returned to Qingshui County together in four or five cars.

Everyone had brought replacement drivers, and they traveled in silence, arriving in Qingshui County before midnight.

Grandma Wu Juying had long since cleaned Li Ye's room, allowing Li Ye and Wen Leyu to get a good night's sleep.

Early the next morning, the older aunt and younger aunt arrived at the Li family home, preparing to go with Grandpa, Grandma, and the young couple, Li Ye and Wen Leyu, to pay respects at the Li family graves.

According to Dongshan Province's traditions, married women normally could not return to their natal families to visit the graves. Li Yue, for example, could not go burn offerings at the Li family graves.

Only under several special circumstances could these women follow others to visit the graves—if an elder had passed away, if a new daughter-in-law had married into the family, and so on.

That was why people later kept saying Dongshan had severe backward customs and did not respect women. Coupled with the widespread rumor that "women couldn't sit at the table," Dongshan's men had been painted as utterly worthless.

Li Ye truly could not comment on grave-visiting, but the matter of "women can't sit at the table" was not quite what people made it out to be.

Several decades later, Dongshan had long since stopped having this phenomenon of women not sitting at the table.

But during holidays and festivals in the 1980s, the men indeed drank at the main table, while the women and children had another table of their own.

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