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

Dick ran his trembling hands over the car door, which had obvious signs of patching.

"Little D," he said bitterly, "this is the car I just bought!"

Damian quickly shirked responsibility with the most indifferent expression, "Josh's."

It's as if he didn't do anything himself.

"I don't mind you taking my car away." Dick said a moment of silence for the poor window. "You know I got her less than a week ago?"

"You can change it yourself," Damian said, sitting on the sofa in the garage, drinking the last bottle of soda he dug out of Dick's refrigerator, "or just buy a new one."

"You don't know anything about thrift," Dick said heartbroken.

Damian is unmoved by his brother's flamboyant performance.

His fingers tapped on the glass bottle of Coke, and Dick's face disintegrated in his eyes, into flesh and skeleton.

In order to remember a face as quickly as possible, and to be able to recognize it in the case of plastic surgery and disguise, they have learned the skills of remembering bone phase.

Dick's face became more and more like the girl's, to the extent that Damian couldn't deny that there was a bond between them.

He was back in the Gotham Batcave last night, borrowing his father's device to run a paternity test on Dick and April.The result hasn't come out yet, but Damian already has a faint understanding in his heart.

Why did Ai Puli end up in an orphanage?

What secret is hidden in her?

Did Dick know that he might still have blood relatives alive?

Damian put the Coke bottle on the table, "What did my father think when he knew about my existence?"

Dick, who was trying to salvage his five-day-old car, had a hard time hearing that.

"Little D," he turned around, "did you argue with Bruce?"

"No." Damian denied, "I just don't think he accepted me very much at the time."

"It's a little hard to explain," Dick put down the hammer in his hand, "but he definitely, absolutely didn't mean to accept you. He just didn't react."

Damian put his hands into his coat pockets, "You don't need to comfort me, I didn't have much longing for my father at that time."

There's a sag in the couch next to him, and Dick sits next to Damian. "You know it, I love you, bro. So does Bruce, we all do. Our family has our own way of expressing our affection."

Damian stopped Dick from giving him a hug, "Greyson, what would you do if you were the father?"

Dick was a perceptive person most of the time, and Damian's rare intimidation blinded him to other possibilities.

He thought seriously, "...I don't know."

He gave the answer, "I'm not ready to be a father. I'm not sure if my children will inherit those bad things from me."

"Is it hard to accept?"

"No," Dick smiled bitterly at Damian, "how could I not be happy that there is another person in the world who is connected with my blood? I will try my best to be a good father, I'm afraid I can't .”

Damian looks at his brother, and the Gleasons committed suicide in police custody last night, putting an end to the direction of their investigation.

If the clues provided by April are correct, the enemies they face will be very difficult.

When the test results came out, Damian had no reason to hide from Dick.

After a while, before Dick noticed something strange, Damian changed the subject, "Do you still have money to repair the car?"

"Thank you for caring about my poor salary." Dick barely raised the corners of his mouth, smiling like crying.

The Gotham Police Department contacted Ms. Jones early in the morning. The Gleason couple who wanted to adopt Aprily were a pair of liars who forged a marriage certificate. They hoped that the orphanage could assist in the investigation and find evidence of the Gleason couple's crime.

After the police came, Ms. Jones found Aprily with a pale face.She didn't talk to Ai Puli, just touched Ai Puli's head, and found a pudding in the drawer for Ai Puli.

"Can I have two?" April asked. "I want to give it to a friend who dropped me off yesterday."

Ms. Jones gave Aprily three servings of pudding.Aprile goes to school with her beloved pudding.

Once familiar and second familiar, this time she found Damian who was sitting on the top of the playground stands faster than last time.

The other party seemed to be sitting there waiting for her on purpose, not even half surprised by Ai Puli's arrival.

Ai Puli put two boxes of puddings by Damian's hand, "One is yours, and the other is Jonathan's."

Of course, the puddings in the orphanage are not expensive puddings, and Damian has hardly eaten this kind of miscellaneous snacks full of additives.

"Have you never eaten good food?" He said with disgust, and followed Ai Puli's movement to tear open the package.

"This taste is okay." Ai Puli thought of Damian's honorable status as Master Wayne, and added another sentence, "I think the taste is okay."

"What are you eating?" Jonathan poked his head between the shoulders of the two of them, and he raised his hand to catch the pudding thrown by Damian. "Wow, it must be from April, thank you!"

The three sat side by side on the top of the playground bleachers eating.

Jonathan recalled the news he heard just now, "Little D, your father is coming to Westside School this afternoon, did you know?"

Damian was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that his father planned to come over in person, it must be because of the results of the paternity test.

He was not surprised by this result, thinking that there would definitely be a conversation between father and son when he went back tonight, his mind was actually quite peaceful, "What is he doing here?"

"I heard that he was invited by the school to give a speech as the biggest sponsor of West City School," Jonathan said.

The speech is just a cover, and the real purpose of coming to see people is probably.

Ai Puli didn't know that she was in the center of the whirlpool. She happily finished her share of pudding, happy that she could finally take the school bus to and from school normally.

The school specially set aside an hour before the end of school, so that the well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist in Gotham, Mr. Wayne, would give some encouraging speeches to the students in the auditorium.

Students do not need to be present, they can watch the live broadcast directly in the classroom.Ai Puli sat at the back of the classroom, and did not secretly do her homework while the teacher was not paying attention.

Master Wayne was the one who sponsored her to go to school, and she listened carefully to Master Wayne's lecture for a full 15 minutes.

She carefully observed Master Wayne's face. He was somewhat similar to Damian, except for slight differences in skin color and facial contour.

Master Wayne distributed two notebooks and two pens to each of the students in the school, as well as a piece of afternoon tea cake and a box of milk.

The small cake tasted very good, and Ai Puli was very satisfied.

Thank you Damian and Jonathan and thank you Master Wayne for making her a great day.

Her happiness took a twist of doubt after school.A car stopped her on her way to the school bus stop.

The father and son in the car looked at each other, and there was a silent exchange of eyes.

Damian reluctantly turned his eyes away, rolled down the car window, and said to the dazed Aprily, "Get in the car, and I'll take you back on the way."

"I can take the school bus." April felt a little confused. After a few contacts, Damian didn't seem to be enthusiastic about taking people home.

Damian glanced at his father sitting in the driver's seat, and repeated, "It's just on the way."

"Okay," April opened the rear door, "thank you."

Damian sat in the passenger seat and Aprile sat in the back.There was another person in the car. Master Wayne was in the driver's seat. He actually drove Damian himself to pick him up from school.

For April, it was the missing piece of the night in the sky, because the darkness covered up so much that she couldn't smell it properly.

He doesn't seem to be in the world, but he is climbing rocks with heavy loads on the rock wall in hell.

A very small part of his scent coincides with Damian, which further confirms the parent-child relationship between the two to April.

Master Wayne put down the handbrake, and the car mingled with the traffic and drove out.

Damian is in front, not talking to April.Aprily was a little restless.

She regretted getting on the bus, the school bus just left, but if she got off now, she could still catch the last bus.

"I know there is a delicious ice cream shop in the metropolis." Master Wayne seemed to be hinting at Damian and Aprily, "It's not far away."

"I..." Aprily's buzz was overwhelmed by Damian.

"We can call the superintendent of the orphanage," he said to April, "and you'll pay for that damn sweet pudding."

But that piece of pudding is obviously a thank you gift from Aprile, do you need to return the gift?

The two people in the front row did not disturb Aprily's little thoughts.The steering wheel was in the hands of Master Wayne, and it stopped in front of an ice cream shop ten minutes later.

Ai Puli put her bag on the car and got out of the car a little bit awkwardly.

This is a bit unbelievable. April has never eaten ice cream.

There was no opportunity before, and there were no conditions when I was in the orphanage.The ingredients for meals are stored in the freezer of the orphanage, and the snacks given out by the nuns are all easy-to-preserve.

Apple has always only known a dessert called "ice cream".

Master Wayne led them to the ordering counter. Ice creams of various colors were packed in small iron boxes lined up in rows. Some had a deep hole dug in them, and some had only a few scoops scraped.

Damian ordered three scoops of pomegranate, nut and peach flavors.The waiter quickly handed him three different colored balls piled into a hill in the bowl.

Master Wayne ordered three flavors: pistachio, egg milk and blueberry.

Only Ai Puli was left unselected.

The chocolate and strawberry flavors seem delicious.Ai Puli glanced at the price list and found the cheapest flavors at the lowest end. She chose one of them, "I just want a banana-flavored ice cream, thank you."

"Banana, strawberry and chocolate, please give this kid a ball each." Master Wayne said slowly.

He looked down at Ai Puli, "If you only want one, it will make Damian and I look very greedy, we just want to try two more flavors."

This reason did not particularly convince April, but the ice cream exuding a sweet chill looked too tempting, and April readily accepted it.

The three of them sat in a booth, and April carefully dug out the first spoonful and licked it.

Her eyes lit up like a little squirrel picking up a pine cone, and three balls of ordinary ice cream seemed to be an extremely rare delicacy.

Master Wayne stared at the top of her head for a moment, Aprile not catching his gaze because she was too busy eating.

"There's a nice restaurant around here," he said suddenly.

Ai Puli raised her head with a spoon in her mouth, and pouted her mouth.

Damian said coldly like a kidnapper, "You have already boarded the thief ship, the best way is to give up and follow us."