Chapter 97: Meet the brothers

"This is Muyang’s older brother Mu _"

"Call me Ringo." The smiling man who looked so much like Jun Muyang intervened. Chi Lian could not help but be fascinated by his face, they had the same brown eyes and nose. The old master had those same features. Indeed, the Jun family genes were very dominant.

"Hey, I am Lady Chi Lian." she shook his hand.

"Lady," he said in a questioning tone and lifted his eyebrow in the exact same manner Jun Muyang usually did.

"Ignore him," another brother intervened, "He wouldn’t know a lady if she slapped him in the face."

"And you are?" Chi Lian asked inquisitively.

"I am Jun Royang, he is Jun Shuyang and that is Jun Boyang."

Chi Lian wanted to ask why the ’yang’ at the end of each name. Was there something special about it?

The one who identified himself as Ringo chuckled, "Let me guess, he said, you are wondering about the ’yang’ part of our names."

"Am I that obvious?" she laughed softly.

"Not really but most people get that same look you had on your face when they meet us, the bold ones ask about the ’yang’ and others ignore it but later on, they ask a friend of a friend." As he explained, he put one arm around her shoulders.

"Cousin, aren’t you being too friendly?" one of the others asked.

"What’s wrong with me being friendly with my sister-in-law, is she complaining?"

"We are just saving you from the wrath of your younger brother." Jun Royang innocently replied. "What would he think if he saw you holding his woman so tightly like that."

"And with your face all red and shy." another one said.

"He would think you want to chase sister-in-law." the last cousin finished exaggeratedly.

While they spoke and smiled naughtily, the air in the area got colder.

"He is right behind us, isn’t he?" Ringo asked.

The three brothers laughed and took off.

"In case no one has warned you sister-in-law, triplets run in our family. Pray that your next children are not as big as menaces as those three."

He took his hand off her shoulder and turned around, "Younger brother." he said, with his arms wide open. "Its so good to see you. It has been so long, why haven’t you been picking my calls."

"Ringo, you came." Jun Muyang maintained a cold unsmiling face.

"Of course I came, someone tried to murder my only niece and escape justice, how could I not come?"

Jun Muyang snorted and laughed mockingly. "When did you start caring about other people?"

"Brother," Ringo touched his heart as if it had been pierced and made a pained look on his face, "Blood is blood and its thicker than water, others are strangers so I don’t need to care about them. Besides, your children will be my children, didn’t we agree on that."

The old master rose like a bull when he heard that statement.

"I dare you to repeat that statement you unfilial child, go and have your own children, stop claiming your brother’s children."

Not only did the old master berate him, he pulled on Ringo’s ear painfully.

Chi Lian took advantage of that opportunity to escape and continue her search for her mother.

"Has anyone seen my mother?" she asked the maids and bodyguards.

"Lady, try checking outside, in the gardens." one of them said.

"Thank you." she made a bee line for the entrance to the gardens as quickly as possible. "Mother," she called when she entered the large gardens.

It appeared that the gardens were meant to be the hosting area for the party. Tables had been set up and flowers were beautifully arranged in the center of each table. Bottles of wine and glasses were placed on each table in front of the designated seats.

"Mother," she called again.

"Chi-Chi," she heard her mother’s voice coming from the very back ends of the garden and she went there. She found her mother, father and brothers gathered at a table and discussing something.

"Mother, I have been looking everywhere for you. Why is everyone hiding here and who is tending to the guests inside the house?"

"We are not hiding, we are strategizing." Chi Wei said.

Chi Lian was confused, what kind of strategy and for what? Was there a secret war she did not know about?

"The royals are coming for the small dinner party, mother is anxious. To be honest, so are we. They are not ordinary folks, what happens if someone attempts to poison them from here? We would be arrested for treason." Papa Chi spoke nervously. His eyes were wide open as if he was imagining their life in prison already.

Why were these big fish coming to their house? Chi Lian could not blame her parents, meeting royalty was a big deal. In fact, one’s security was vetted strictly if they were to host a member of the royal family. The food underwent a number of checks before it could be delivered.

But if her parents did not want to host the royals, then why the party?

"Why didn’t anybody tell me that we were having a party?" Chi Lian asked.

"It was not supposed to be a party, it was supposed to be an intimate family dinner to celebrate Mei-Mei’s recovery." mama Chi explained.

"So what happened?" Chi Lian wanted to know. "And who gave people directions to the drum of wine?" The drum of special wine was half way drained already.

"He Weili happened." Chi Wei said.

"Jun Muyang’s mother! what did she do?"

"She said the relatives had flown in to meet Mei-Mei and we had to host them because you are her future daughter-in-law and these people will soon be your relatives as well. Suddenly the small dinner took on a life of its own." mama Chi used her hands to draw a huge circle showing how wide the whole thing had become.

"And the royals have to come because they are also relatives." Chi Lian concluded.

"Yes." mama Chi sunk into her chair.

"What do we do if the queen dowager chokes on a fish bone?" Mama Chi wailed anxiously and Chi Lian laughed.

"Mother, I don’t think that will be an issue because the queen dowager knows how to chew her food. Now stop imagining ridiculous scenarios and be the best possible host. And please get those people out of the kitchen and away from my wine."

"Sis, have you met those triplets, they are the ones drinking the wine like fish drinking water." Chi Rui told her. "I think you tell your man to address that." he suggested.

"Great idea," she left the gardens and went looking for Muyang.

"He is in the bedroom." a maid told her.

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