Yang Xinyu was whispering so that Wu Lina wouldn't wake up.
"Kiddos, once you grow up, you better be on my side. Your mother is really not listening to me these days. Together we will rule her. But let me tell you she is one hot-headed woman."
Wu Lina stirred a little feeling hot breath on her belly. She looked to her side to see that Yang Xinyu wasn't there. Where had he gone this late at night? Sleepily, she curled her legs and hit something.
"Ah!"
Someone cried so softly from beneath the blanket as if bearing the pain of her kick. Wu Lina switched on the bedside table lamp, lifted the blanket to see that Yang Xinyu was holding his chin and rolling in pain.
She wondered what happened. She thought that Yang Xinyu must have moved down while sleeping and he hadn't realized. When she curled her legs, she had hit him badly.
She panicked and said, "Yang Xinyu, I am so sorry but I didn't realize that you would go down while sleeping."
Yang Xinyu had been kicked brutally on his chin. Wu Lina's knees hit his chin when he was talking and his mouth was open, which in turn resulted him biting his lips with his teeth. He closed his mouth and rolled in pain on the other side. His cry was muffled so that Wu Lina wouldn't wake up.
Wu Lina saw that his lips were bleeding. Immediately she ran to the kitchen to fetch icepack for him. It's not that that the wound was large or anything, but it was big enough for a scab to form. When the pain settled, Yang Xinyu looked at her angrily and said, "Can't you sleep in a civilized way?"
"Yang Xinyu, how am I supposed to know that you have moved down!" she replied equally annoyed. She was just changing her position.
"Okay! Go back to sleep and stop pointing my mistakes!"
Wu Lina narrowed her eyes. He was behaving unreasonably. She even ran to the kitchen to fetch ice for him and all she was getting was his attitude. She switched off the light and lied back on her pillow. Just as she was about to sleep again, she felt someone sliding inside the blanket. There were whispers and hot breath on her belly. She rolled her eyes, lifted the blanket off them and said, "Yang Xinyu, come back over here and sleep."
Next day in the morning, Yang Xinyu insisted that they show to the doctor. It had been almost three weeks since they had visited her. Wu Lina informed her office that she would be late. It was an important day since they were filming in the outdoor sets. Wu Lina wanted to be present there.
In the hospital, the doctor did the ultrasound and showed them that the babies' minor movements. Yang XInyu became crazy when he saw them moving. One of them was throwing the arms and legs in every direction. Yang Xinyu chided him to let others sleep.
On an afterthought Yang Xinyu asked the doctor, "What is the gender of the babies?"
The doctor said, "If it is very necessary, I will let you know. However, I would prefer to not tell you."
Wu Lina nodded and said, "That's okay doctor. We don't want to know. I just want all of them to be healthy. I know that their birth weight won't be as good, but I hope that they are as healthy as possible. Sometimes I am scared that all of them are getting enough nutrition or not."
The doctor smiled and said, "Wu Lina, this is the best age to have babies. The fact that you are having triplets is definitely unique. I hope you are eating according to the diet chart our dietician had prepared for you."
"Yes doctor, Yang Xinyu is ensuring that," said Wu Lina with a smile.
"That's good. Also, be gentle with your movements. In addition, I would advise you not to join any of those prenatal classes where they teach you how to handle childbirth. It has become fashionable these days to join prenatal classes but let me tell you that they are a bunch of nonsense."
Wu Lina glanced at Yang Xinyu and let out a chuckle. Yang Xinyu looked like an idiot while he listened to the doctor and replied, "Yes doctor, we will not…"
On the way back, Yang Xinyu pulled Wu Lina on his l.a.p, curled his arms around her belly and smiled stupidly. His family was all there. He resumed talking to them.
When they reached home, Wu Lina thought of going to the office after lunch.
All the time inside the house Yang Xinyu kept walking behind Wu Lina with his arms around her belly stroking it and whispering nonsense to the babies. Wu Lina was so irritated that she asked him to behave himself in front of the servants who were chuckling, but he didn't even bother about them. In the end she became mad at him.
He left her with a sad face telling his babies, "Your mother is vicious."
Later when they were resting in the bedroom, he asked her, "Do you remember the day I took you to our family house the first time?"
Wu Lina smiled as she remembered it and nodded.
"Remember that there was a stud farm?"
"Yes."
"Well, I had told you that I would be investing to rebuild it."
"Yes…"
"That stud farm has been rebuilt from the scratch. Currently there are five horses over there and I have bought five more, which are one of the best breeds, from various parts of the world. They will arriving here shortly. I have ordered to cross breed two more and import them from England. But that will take an year since cross breeding the best of them and importing them here is a lengthy process."
Wu Lina'e eyes welled up. Yang Xinyu remembered that day so well. She shifted towards him and kissed him on his lips.
"I am waiting for my sons to come to the world Wu Lina," said Yang Xinyu curling his hands around her.
While she was in her bubble, her phone started ringing. It was Che Mingliang.
"Ma'am, a fire broke out on the outdoor sets."