[Zhongyingmei] How difficult is it to become a reliable adult

Aprile dined at the same table as Damian, in bat flannel pajamas, and her dad, Dick.

She perfectly restrained her dreamlike expression, and focused on cutting the fried eggs on the plate with a knife and fork, as if she was dissecting the secret weapon sent by aliens to invade the earth.

Dick cooked the breakfast, and his skills were considered good among bachelors. Aprily quickly finished the breakfast and sent it to the kitchen with the plate.

The sink was a bit high, she looked around and found a small stool to put under her feet.She turned on the tap and was about to rinse her plate when she lifted her up with one hand under her armpit.

Ai Puli was shocked, and the dinner plate almost fell into the sink.

Dick felt her trembling and put her down immediately.

"Scared you? This family doesn't need children under the age of ten to wash the dishes." He took the plate from Ai Puli's hand, lifted her off the small bench easily, and bribed her with a lollipop .

"Steamed wax gourd flavored with Luo Han Guo, longan and rock sugar," Dick opened the cabinet, and let Ai Puli see the sugar bowl in the cabinet and the rows of grain circles of different flavors neatly arranged behind the sugar bowl. "I asked a friend to buy it back." .”

What he promised, he did.

Ai Puli stared at the lollipop in her hand, peeled off the candy wrapper, and sniffed it carefully.

Weird sweetness.

She put the sugar in her mouth cautiously, and Dick looked at her expectantly. "I think it tastes good."

Ai Puli savored it carefully, thinking thoughtfully with a lollipop in her mouth, "The taste is too mixed, and I can't taste anything except sweetness."

Dick frowned, and also took out one from the sugar bowl and unwrapped it, "But I still think it's delicious."

Ai Puli said kindly, "Maybe if I eat a few more, I can appreciate its specialness."

Ms. Jones had only asked for one day off for April, and Dick helped her ask for an extra day off.

Damian couldn't believe it.

He was standing at the door with his schoolbag on his back, his expression was too ferocious and cold for a boy.

"You let me sleep at your house, and then go to school from Haven to Gotham by yourself?" Damian gritted his molars, "Greyson, ha."

He called Dick's name, as if the voice came from the depths of hell, and April, who was sitting on the sofa, straightened her back instantly.

Dick sneered, "I called a taxi for you."

Damian threw the schoolbag on the sofa, April's heart skipped a beat, almost thinking he was going to kiss Dick's face with the ten-pound bag.

Damian sat cross-legged on the sofa, "I'll go with you."

Dick tried to negotiate, "You have to go to school, Fu said you missed two classes this month."

"You can ask for leave for me." Damian was as motionless as a mountain, as if he was going to nail himself to the sofa.

Dick tried to find in Damian's eyes the possibility of a peaceful negotiation, and as always, he gave up very quickly.

He resigned himself to asking Damian for a good leave of absence, and Bruce's eyes of disapproval dangled in front of his eyes.

A candy was stuffed into his palm.Aprilie shoved another candy into his hand, and with all her fingers poked the protruding candy butt into Dick's hand.

"I want Damian to be with me, can you?" she said to Dick with her face up, her blue eyes full of pleading, "Sister Vivi gave me these two candies, and I'll take these in exchange."

Dick often used this trick. He knew the power of this trick and tried it repeatedly on various occasions.

Finally one day, he was walking by the river and wet his shoes, not slippers.

Dick's heart was struck by a heavy hammer, and his voice became soft unconsciously, "Of course, as long as you want."

Bruce, what is Bruce?

Can he resist those blue eyes?Can he ignore this pitiful look?

Even if Batman can do it, Brucey will jump out and hit him on the head with an alloy frying pan!

Damian's expression gradually turned from indifference and disgust to bewilderment and bewilderment.

He couldn't understand the father-daughter pantomime, so much so that when he and April got in Dick's car that he had just driven back from the garage, he was still telling April, "You don't have to tell him plead."

Ai Puli was leaning against the side of the car window, curiously looking at the scenery that flashed by Haven outside the car window.

"I know." She glanced at Dick in the driver's seat and changed the subject, "Damian, what is that?"

Damian glanced sideways, "A border collie, also called a border collie."

"Oh." Aprily nodded.

She didn't say what she thought.Ai Puli just thought that this statement might make Master Wayne a little more tolerant of Damian's absence from school.

She had only seen Master Wayne once last time.Her intuition told her that the other party was a very serious person, not as funny and humorous as he had shown in his school speech.

Dick paid attention to the movement of the children in the backseat, and seeing that the two were getting along peacefully, he felt relieved, and hummed a fluttering tune to drive Damian and Aprile around Haven.

They went to a large shopping mall on the outskirts of the city.Before entering the mall, Dick called April to stop.

He took out a bill and waved it in front of Aprily's eyes, then put it in her pocket, "Here are ten dollars, you can choose a few things you like."

Damian waited impatiently, "Is your house-playing game over yet?"

Dick smiled at April, leaped forward and hooked Damian's neck, "I definitely didn't mean to neglect you."

He stretched out his free hand towards Ai Puli, "There are so many people in the mall, it's easy to get lost."

April hesitated a little, and went to take Dick's hand.

The palm of a grown man is so large that it can completely wrap April's small hand without any effort.The calluses on the palm and the base of the fingers rubbed against the back of April's hand, hard.

Aprily tiptoed involuntarily for joy. She didn't know it, but Dick noticed it.

It wasn't a Wayne tradition, it was a Grayson habit.

The freedom and activity of the Roma flow in the blood of the Graysons. They always walk briskly, with a warm and bright smile like the sun on their faces.

Aprili is not like a bat, she has Roma genes.

She is a Grayson.

This cognition flashed through Dick's heart, like a vigilant little squirrel, hiding its small head in the dense layers of pine needles.

He took Aprile's hand and shook it, glad he said, "Let's go."

This is the first time that Ai Puli has entered a large shopping mall.After entering Xicheng School, there were too many "firsts" in her life.

She looked around curiously, and the tall shelves were filled with a variety of goods.Dressed in a variety of beautiful coats, they are neatly displayed on the shelves, beckoning to Ai Puli.

Dick rolled over a wheelbarrow and threw things into the wheelbarrow as he walked.He compared two bottles of shower gels with different scents, "Do you think the orange blossom scent is better, or the peach scent is better."

Damian said indifferently, "No one will care about this except you."

"A shower gel with the right scent can relax people physically and mentally." Dick defended himself. After weighing for a long time, he put the orange blossom scented shower gel into the trolley, and took out two bottles of children's shower gel and asked Aprily, "You Do you want strawberry ones, or cherry blossom ones?"

Damian yawns as he and Aprile discuss which scented body wash to choose.

He waved his hand, "You guys are wasting your time, I'll go to the manga section."

April watched as he quickly disappeared among the passing customers, and she looked at Dick, "Are we leaving him?"

"It's okay." Dick was still struggling between strawberries and cherry blossoms. He also saw the milk scent next to him. "Little D has hobbies. He will meet us at the exit later."

He ended up throwing all three bottles of body wash into the cart, and Aprile could use whichever scent she wanted.

Facing the list he made in the memo on his mobile phone, Dick ordered everything in the trolley.

"You haven't picked what you like yet," he reminded Aprily, "you can spend the ten dollars freely."

April thought for a while, "If I don't use it up, can I save it?"

Dick was stunned for a moment, then quickly laughed, "Of course, we need to buy a piggy bank before that."

They hesitated for a long time between the little yellow duck piggy bank and the penguin piggy bank, and finally chose the one in the shape of Dumbo.Ai Puli took two steps to look into the cart to see if the Dumbo piggy bank was still there.

Aprily still had the ten dollars that Dick gave her in her pocket. She was afraid that the bill would fall out, so she was holding Dick with one hand, and kept the other in her pocket foolishly.

She went shopping all the way, but didn't see anything she really wanted to buy, and saw a new flavor of cereal circles near the checkout.

She remembered that there were lots of cereal circles of that brand in the kitchen cupboard, and Dick was supposed to be a cereal lover.

Ai Puli recalled that there seemed to be no such taste in the cereal circles placed in the cupboard.

The price of the cereal circles is five dollars, and Aprily can save five dollars after buying them.She stood by the shelf, settled the bill, and ran up to Dick with a box of cereal rings.

Dick actually bought this cereal ring, it has been on the market for half a month, and Dick only finished one box last week.

He didn't like the taste very much, Dick prefers something sweeter, the kind that makes insulin skyrocket.

"Are you going to buy this?" he confirmed to April. "Anything else?"

Ai Puli shook her head, "I want to save the rest of the money."

She doesn't really like cereal, cereal circles and the like, because when she was living with her mother, she often ate such convenient instant foods.

Cheap unsweetened cereal crumbs and unsalable half-breads from bakeries filled the short years of her life, which were later replaced by cheap pudding from the orphanage and the occasional burnt curry from the nuns.

Dick seemed to sense it, and he took the box of cereal rings from April's hand and put them in the cart.

"Okay." He didn't feel guilty about snatching something from a child, "now it's mine."

He winked at Aprily, "You're going to choose another one."

Aprily looked blankly at the empty hand, and Dick waved it in front of her, "If you still want a cereal circle with the same taste, you can go get it again."

"But," a twist, "if you want something new, you can pick something else."

Ai Puli weighed in her heart.

She didn't really want the cereal loops, she just thought Dick would like this.But Dick bought a box for himself now, and she didn't have to take another.

The little girl turned back, and not long after, she hugged a Mr. Rabbit with a bow tie on his chest and came back.

She held the rabbit up to Dick. "I want him, okay? Six dollars, and the other four I want to save."

During this trip to the shopping mall, Ai Puli returned with a full load.

Dick bought her an excess of groceries, and he was basically in a shopping frenzy, eager to try and buy everything he saw.

Damian commented on this kind of behavior as "you can only spend a lot of money if you don't know what to do."

Damian also bought something for April.April is surprised when she receives a comic from Damian.

"Cardcaptor Sakura".

Damian said she should learn to have some spiritual enjoyment.As he said this, he casually placed the manga on Aprile's head, as if Aprile were a suitable shelf.

Ai Puli, who is less than one meter tall, decided to hate him for a day. His behavior may make her grow taller.

Mr. Rabbit was named Massimo. Mr. Massimo and Ms. Nancy were placed next to Aprily's pillow, and he was on a blind date with Ms. Nancy.

Before going to bed, Dick specially taught Aprily how to operate the security system at home.When he is away at night, Mr. Massimo and Ms. Nancy will accompany Aprily to sleep peacefully.

Aprile lay between Mr. Massimo and Ms. Nancy, rolling around.

She got up from the quilt, put her arms around Ms. Nancy, and went to the living room to pour water.

She was not intimidated by being alone at home. Dick asked his friend to accompany her before he left, but Aprile refused.

She just couldn't sleep a little bit.

Ai Puli took the water and poured it down, and there was a slight movement from the window of the living room.

Ai Puli hugged Ms. Nancy, quietly listening to the movement outside.

After a while, cursing after being electrocuted came from outside.Those who wanted to break in through the window seemed not to give up, and they continued to pry the window persistently after being shocked.

Aprily's hand touched Ms. Nancy's left ear, and a siren was pinned to the base of the ear. As long as Aprily triggered it, it would be instantly synchronized to the devices of Dick, Tim and a large group of people.

She was about to press it to retreat to the bedroom, when she suddenly found that the security system did not trigger other defensive measures except for the electric current that could not be turned off.

This proved that the person who had come was an acquaintance of Dick's.

Since it is an acquaintance of Dad, it is a guest.

Ai Puli thoughtfully poured a glass of water for the guest.

She watched as the living room window was pried open with difficulty, and a gloved hand reached in to unlock the window.

The window opened, and a man with a red head stepped in, cursing, "Fugdickhead!"

When he looked up, he saw April sitting on the sofa holding Ms. Nancy and looking at him quietly.

The red-headed man's swear words were swallowed hard.

For a moment he wondered if he was in the wrong place.

His right leg, which had stepped through the window, was swiftly retracted.

The red head disappeared behind the window, and the curtains were closed lovingly with gloved hands.

Aprily waited patiently for half a minute.

A red head emerged from behind the curtain.

He tried to discuss with Ai Puli, "Just pretend you didn't see the scene just now."