[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

If it was a year and a half ago, when mentioning the crime alleys in Gotham City, most residents would either frown or show hesitant eyes, as if just saying the place name from their mouths would lead to bad luck.

Honestly, you can't blame them either.After all, it is the most famous no-nonsense area in Gotham, a hotbed of pornography, gambling, and drugs. People from Crime Alley, who have any ability, desperately want to get out of this place, and regard it as a dark history in their lives. , never to be brought up again.

But that was a year and a half ago.

Now if someone is walking down "Crime Alley," we go up and pat him on the shoulder and say, "Hey man, do you know this is Crime Alley?"

The other party will probably answer honestly: "What? This is Crime Alley? I thought it was Park Row!"

From the beginning to the end of the conversation, the words "Crime Alley" probably never crossed his mind.

Oh, in case outsiders don't know, in fact, Crime Lane used to be famous in the past, and its name was "Park Road" at that time.

This is a picture that no one dared to imagine in the past 30 years. Even the city government has given up on rectifying the crime alley. Events that are really happening deep in Crime Alley are ignored, or delayed until the delay becomes too late.

Until recently, the only person who really cared about Crime Alley seemed to be the night vigilante, Red Hood.Sometimes wielding two knives, sometimes punishing criminals with guns equipped with black technology, the style of the headgear is eye-catching and changeable - from the regular metal full face, to the cute cat ear style a while ago, it seems to be replaced by A mix-and-match style of black Mino eye masks combined with a red mask and a red hood.

By the way, because of the red hoods, the surrounding stores selling masks and helmets never have to worry about business, as long as they buy more red items, there will be no problem.

Ever since the red hood became the guardian of Crime Alley at night, the mysterious second young master of the Wayne family, who would make explosive news from time to time, has gradually become the daytime knight of Crime Alley.

Nobody knows what Jason Wayne is up to, he sometimes disappears from everyone's sight completely, completely - not even on the internet (seriously, Is it still possible to completely cut off the Internet these days?), but whenever he reappears under the lens of the media, he can always lead to some new topics.

The new Gotham plan in cooperation with the government, from the public construction that is beneficial to the image of the city, to the satisfaction of daily needs such as community libraries, youth recreation centers, and childcare in the lives of ordinary citizens, and finally to develop a blueprint for the future entrepreneurial incentives.

"Come on, Jason." Dick put his hands on Jason's shoulders, rubbing his stiff muscles vigorously, "Relax, inhale—exhale—good! No problem, today is your big day !"

"I... just forget it." Pushing away Dick's hand, Jason turned his head and walked deep into the house, but was blocked by Tim, "Come on, Timber! I remember you hated this kind of thing too." One of the people at the party, do unto others as you would have them do to you, you can't do this to me."

"The price of growing up is that we have to learn to live with the things we hate." Tim said solemnly, which contains the philosophy of life, "Just treat this as a belated growing pain. Besides, there will be manuscripts on the podium , you just read it as you like, it’s fine! Didn’t you say it once at the banquet before, and that time it was pretty good!”

"It's different." Jason scratched his hair, which had just been neatly combed just now, and circled around Tim angrily, "It was a private banquet, and there were only a few dozen people to death. This is a public speech-public! Public! The kind where there is an OB truck that directly reports the news! No matter where you are, you can watch it with your mobile phone!”

Damian straightened his cuffs and resorted to aggressive tactics: "I didn't expect that the famous red hood would be afraid of speaking in public?"

Jason, who was not hooked at all, waved his hands casually, still pacing back and forth anxiously: "Do you dare to let me change into the red hood equipment, not to mention the public speech, I can also give you a shot with two guns, let me The ghosts and beasts of the world will not be short of material this year... no, the year after next!"

"Hey, after Bruce finished speaking, it's time for you to play." Dick, who was lying on the exit to check the situation, waved to Jason without looking back. Tim and Damian, the two traitors who received the signal, stood on the left and on the right. He grabbed Jason and dragged him towards the exit, and mercilessly pushed him towards the flashing spotlight.

"Welcome to Mr. Jason Wayne, the driving force behind the Wayne Business Incubator!" Following the announcement of the host, everyone's eyes, including the cameras of the reporters, were all focused on him.

Bite the bullet and walk to the center of the red carpet. Behind you is the newly completed Wayne Business Incubator, which officially started operating today.It has been half a year since he returned to this familiar world with the wound pierced by Yan Modao. During this period, no time-traveling incidents occurred at all. Constantine has been blacklisted by Bruce and will never be allowed to enter the world. Wayne's house was a step away, but Zatanna came to check it several times in person, and the result said that the weird energy on Jason had disappeared.

Jason privately sent a message to Damon, a veteran vampire in the supernatural circle, and even contacted Lucifer after hesitation. The normal [-]% is all kinds of experiences accumulated in the past, such as resurrection from death or something.

Except for being forbidden to use the blade of the big caste without any scruples, and feeling extra lonely looking at the flowerpot left by Groot and the empty nest of the J-bat, Jason thinks that his life has not changed much, and continues to use it at night The red hood's identity lesson is always a criminal who doesn't learn well. During the day, he uses distance teaching to supplement his education while paying attention to the progress of the New Gotham Project (Bruce doesn't care at all which school he got his diploma from now, as long as Jason If you don’t leave Gotham, it’s better not to leave the house, everything is easy to say).

There is a mayor who is seeking re-election, coupled with the wealth of the Wayne family and the reputation accumulated over the years, apart from the obstacles of a few extremists, the promotion of the overall plan can be said to be smooth sailing.Suddenly being named and asked to attend the opening ceremony is not to be the background version of Bruce but to speak publicly—even with the help of the public relations department to prepare the speech script, in front of a group of reporters who are ready to catch a little bit of trouble at any time and make a big fuss In front of him, Jason still felt the pressure.

"Thank you, all the guests, and friends from the press for coming to this opening ceremony." The arrow had no choice but to start, Jason glanced at the cheat sheet from time to time, and finished the opening remark in one go.

Jason's speech on the stage came to an end, and there was another burst of shutter sound and flashing lights in the media area below. Jason noticed a few familiar faces amidst the crowds.

Roy and Xinghuo held up a huge card with a picture of a thumb praising the blue bird.

Anna, a vampire wearing a girl's skin, was sitting in the VIP area with her mother, Mrs. Pearl. When she met Jason's eyes, Anna mouthed "Come on" several times.

Even among the security guards standing around the red carpet, the angel who once let Jason and Damian run to the parallel world together got mixed in, and even dared to secretly wink at Jason to pretend to be cute.

Before he knew it, he seemed to be less nervous.

"I think everyone here has had the experience of being sick." Jason said again, but this time he didn't even give the public relations speech a look, "Actually, we all felt the symptoms at the beginning, maybe it's just Very tired, a sudden tingling in the throat, or sore joints, but how many people will take medicine and rest directly when these symptoms occur, instead of pretending that nothing happened, continue to go to work and school, and tell themselves to endure it It will be fine in two days."

The crowd below fell silent, but Jason never expected such an enthusiastic response.

"There is a term specifically used to describe this ability to perceive one's own health status, called 'sense of illness'. People with full awareness of illness know that there is a problem with their health, and are willing to cooperate with the doctor to improve the problem. They have partial awareness of illness. A person who is sick knows that he is sick, but he doesn't feel that he needs help, or he knows that something is wrong, but he doesn't think it is sick, so he doesn't ask for help. The most terrible thing is a person who has no sense of illness at all—— They don't think they have a problem at all, and they even blame those who want to help them."

From the performance of the masses, it can be seen that some people have begun to bring their own life experience. In fact, as long as you think about it carefully, most of them belong to the type with some sense of disease.

"Gotham, the city that gave birth to us, she is also sick. And she also lacks a sense of illness." Jason knew what this sounded like, like those who shouted all day "The city is sick, we have to heal "She" has never been a politician, "her lack of awareness of illness is manifested in the indifference of every citizen, from our elders to ourselves, too many people choose to sweep the disease of this city under the rug Out of sight is out of sight, so that the city has created invisible forbidden areas, such as Crime Alley. As long as you don’t get close to it, don’t interact with people from there, you can live a decent life. When did this idea start? When did it start, as long as someone was born in 'that place', they are doomed to fail? Is it true that all the residents of Crime Lane are criminals?"

Some of the guests showed uncomfortable expressions.

"Everyone on the way to the opening ceremony, you should have seen businesses and houses along the way. You may be wondering why an incubator that advertises as encouraging the development of start-up companies chooses a place that doesn't look very good. area, not an area where businesses gather.” Jason took a deep breath, and was about to drop the answer that some people already knew, “Actually, this area is also a part of Crime Lane, which can be said to be broadly defined. Crime Lane. Some of those stores are old stores that have existed for many years, and some of them have only opened in recent months. They have seen the increase in the number of people in the future and the surge in consumer demand, so they came in advance to seize market share. On the way you came, If you want to buy a cup of coffee and have a snack, the barista and waiter who serve you, or the cashier in the convenience store, are all native residents of Crime Lane—by the way, I personally recommend Samantha Apple Pie, a delicacy that has been passed down for three generations, if you haven’t tasted it yet, after the ceremony is over, the snack bar next to it will be available, so you must try it!”

In the VIP seats, some people's faces have turned blue, but they have to maintain their image in public.Jason couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, showing a smile that succeeded in mischief.

"You don't have to answer, but ask yourself in your mind, the waiter who brings you your meal and says 'have a nice day', is there anything particularly scary about them? Human's breath? Let me tell you, you are so good at spotting hidden criminals at a glance, why don't you go to GCPD to report on crimes? It must be very promising!"

"So why is the incubator located here? In order to allow more people - more people with relatively flexible thinking and relatively less pedantic people to have enough motivation to come to this area, so that more people 'realize' that there is nothing here You monsters who open their bloody mouths and are ready to swallow you pure and innocent. Let those who are rooted here, those children and teenagers who still have light in their eyes, be able to 'realize' that they have hope, so that They saw that they were not the only ones who were beaten to the ground by life, how many people outside the crime alley were living the life they dreamed of, but they were willing to give up those halos to realize their dreams even if they were kneeling on the ground-let this invisible force strengthen both sides Everyone realized that we Gotham people have the same resilience and backbone."

"Even if your starting point is terrible, you have a father who doesn't make a few cents and drinks and beats his wife, you have a mother who spends half of her salary on drugs, and you have a bunch of brothers and sisters who are waiting to be fed. It’s like shit, but you have to endure the stench in this shithole to live your life. Even if all the people around you don’t agree with your dream, telling you that the right way should be to find a stable and high-paying job, Don't spend the best 20 or [-] years of your life pursuing those things that God knows will not succeed. You are spitting on your face every day from your close relatives and friends to the point where you wonder whether you should learn from the predecessors to 'copy' those successful cases .”

Some people, even some reporters and special guests, had tears in their eyes and sniffed secretly to control their emotions.

"For these people, I can't guarantee your future success, but I can point out a way to help - where no one will laugh at your troubles, no one will despise your suffering, no one will force you to You are cut off from your family, because no matter how many shortcomings this drunken father has, how self-righteous these relatives and friends who criticize your dreams are, they are all your roots, unless you choose to leave yourself, otherwise they will be separated from you by external forces. You cut, and your hearts remain tied in place."

Jason turned his head and looked at the direction he was on the stage. Bruce, Alfred, and the three brothers who each had a bad problem were there. Even Thalia was there, but she was standing at the farthest end from Bruce.

"I don't know what kind of changes this can bring to the city. I only know that from the day I walked out of Crime Alley until now, I have been changed by many people and many things."

"But no matter how I change, this is where I started, where I started, my first home. Just like this city is home to all Gotham people, and the people in this city are our family, We can be in a dark room and hurt each other, or we can be better together."

Jason declared to his family, on stage and off, "No matter what, I love you!"

Other things may changeus, but we start and end with the family--Anthony Brandt

"Other things may change us, but we begin and end in family - Anthony Blunt"

The author has something to say:

I started writing this story in 2017 when I was under the quilt. At that time, I didn’t know where my future was. Now in 2019, I feel that I have so many possibilities, which made me have such a change in thinking. In the final analysis, It's because my family is with me all the way.

The middle process is not perfect, and there are many times when we hurt each other, but in the end I think I still want to say to my family: "No matter what, I love you!"

I hope that all readers, no matter what stage of life you are in, what kind of people you meet, what kind of setbacks you have, can bravely speak out - only in this way, those who love you and kind people can help you .

And, I hope that everyone will not forget to say "Thank you, I love you" to your family members, which can be relatives who are connected by blood, or relatives you meet on the journey of life.

Finally, thank you to everyone who has read this article, I hope it can bring you a little positive energy while laughing.

Love you, Chumi!

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!