Chapter 158: The all tattle tale session.
Uncles, aunts, grandparents, great grandparents, friends and even friends of her parents had come over, convening as if there was a business convention of some kind
The first question that Mei Mei had was when had they arrived? It was just five minutes past seven. Had they come as early as six in the morning?
Had there arrival been timed to sync up so that they could arrive at the same time or within minutes of each other?
Mei Mei stood at the bottom of the stairs, slack -jawed, head moving from left to right as she watched her relatives walk from the living room, to the dining room and the kitchen. It seemed everyone had a place they preferred to be.
"She is here." Chi Zhenzhu, her cousin shouted loudly at the top of her voice.
Zhenzhu, was the eldest daughter of Su Manchu and Chi Wei. She was younger than Mei Mei by five years. They had been very close, growing up. Growing up, Zhenzhu had spent most of her time with her uncles from the Su family on an a military base so she had trained her voice to be firm and authoritative.
It carried a precision that demanded immediate action as the tone tended to be sharp and packed a force. A stampede of feet echoed all through the house and everyone squeezed in the foyer just below the stairs.
They looked at Mei Mei like a clan of meerkats looking up at their mother. Status within the family did not matter because even prime minister Chi was being squeezed in with the others. Someone even stepped on his foot in an effort to go ahead of the others.
"Stop pushing."
"You stop pushing."
"Chi Manman, how dare you pinch me?"