Chapter Forty-Three: Christmas Presents
When Jason woke up, the sun was already high in the sky, and the sudden snowfall last night had long since stopped, only the thick layer of snow on the ground proved that it had come, and the sun sprinkled on the snow wantonly, reflecting a dazzling white light, making the garden look like a light source.
Dick was long gone, and Jason didn't even know when he fell asleep last night. I rolled over and crawled lazily on the bed and didn't want to get up. After coming to Wayne Manor, he experienced many things that he had never experienced before.
The first time I hunted down the bad guys, the first time I touched the bomb, the first time I spent Christmas, the first time I picked a Christmas present, although I didn't pick anything, the first time I received a Christmas present, well, wait a minute, go down and open the present, the first time I played a pillow fight with someone, the first time I listened to the story of someone else's mess before going to bed.... Jason rolled over again, and it didn't feel bad.
"Are you awake?"
Jason was lazy in bed when Dick pushed the door in.
"When you wake up, get up and eat something"
Dick looked at Jason who was lying in a daze and said, but Jason didn't react for a long time. Dick walked over strangely, stretched out his hand, and dangled it in front of Jason's open eyes:
"Is this sleeping with your eyes open?"
"You're just sleeping with your eyes open."
Knocking out the annoying hand, Jason scrambled to his feet.
"Then get up and get something to eat, Ah Fu is not here, so there is only cereal...."
"Ah Fu is not here?"
"Bruce had an important event this morning, so he left before he could help us prepare breakfast."
"Huh?? Bruce actually got up? Isn't it hard for him to get up early? ”
"It's not too early at all"
Dick pointed to the wall clock, and Jason jumped out of bed when he could see the time on the wall.
"Why didn't you call me earlier! I couldn't do anything this morning."
The hands of the wall clock were at 10:30, and Jason had planned to wake up early today for a morning workout and then learn how to defuse a bomb.
"Seeing that you sleep so soundly, you don't scream, don't be so anxious, you can be lazy occasionally, let's eat something first"
Jason thought about it and decided to take Dick's advice. But when he followed Dick to the restaurant, he was confronted with three flavors of cereal, and he finally couldn't hold back:
"Can't you just get something else?"
"What's the matter, cereal is a good thing, delicious and hungry"
Dick spared no effort to promote the cereal in his hand.
“.... Don't have any leftovers from last night? ”
“.... What gives you the illusion that Alfred will make you eat leftovers? ”
When Dick said this, Jason remembered that he had never eaten the leftovers of his previous meal since he came to Wayne Manor, and of course he had eaten as clean as he could every time.
"But Alfred will stay for dinner."
"Well, it doesn't matter if it's not too long, and it's convenient for Bruce's uncertain schedule, but it's impossible to have an overnight meal."
Dick took an empty bowl and poured a random flavor of cereal into it, and poured milk on it in front of Jason.
“... So all the food that was eaten? ”
Jason was hungry, and in order to survive, he had eaten all the food that was just starting to get moldy, and then threw it all away after a night, which seemed to him to be a very strange thing.
"Ahh It's a waste, but you have to know that after all, he's taking care of Bruce. Wayne's people.."
Hearing Dick say this, Jason raised his head to meet Dick's meaningful gaze, and then the two of them reached a consensus in each other's eyes - damn the richest man in Gotham!
Bruce never asked for anything from them, nor did he have the arrogant sense of superiority of other rich people, and he was still a vigilante who liked to wear a batsuit to fight crime at night, so they always accidentally forgot that he was still the same Bruce after all. Wayne, the owner of Gotham's largest Wayne business and the richest man in Gotham.
Alfred's amiable attitude always makes them forget that he is a professional butler, and as a qualified butler, he can't let Bruce eat overnight food, and the fresh ingredients in the refrigerator will never last more than three days, especially fruit..............
"Well, if you don't want to eat cereal, why don't you bake your own gingerbread or something? The gingerbread you baked yesterday tasted good."
Seeing that Jason kept staring at the cereal and didn't eat it, Dick made another suggestion.
Jason thought for a moment and shook his head, the gingerbread that he had barely made yesterday under Ah Fu's guidance, he didn't have the courage to try the challenge while Ah Fu was away.
The taste of cereal is very good, and it is easy to feel satisfied when you eat hot milk and cereal together. The taste is completely different from picking up on the street before, and it doesn't have the texture of dry slag.
What Jason didn't know was that the cereal that Alfred bought was naturally not the kind of cheap cereal that ordinary residents ate half of and discarded in the trash, and of course it tasted different.
After filling his stomach and putting away his plate, Jason's attention was on the pile of presents under the large Christmas tree.
"Want to open a gift?"
Seeing through Jason's careful thinking, Dick said with a smile, he knew that there was no child who was not looking forward to Christmas presents, although Jason did not ask for anything, but this did not prevent him from still looking forward to opening the thin piece of wrapping paper.
"Is that okay?"
"Of course, that's a gift for you"
Dick said this, but Jason still didn't bother to open the gift.
"Today's holiday, it's rare to relax"
Dick used this as an excuse to leave the little imp who was about to run to training when he was full of food in the living room. Turn on the TV show and it's all about the holiday, no matter how you change the channel, you can't escape the cheerful festive atmosphere, and what happened last night seems to be completely unremembered.
Occasionally, when you switch to a stage, you can see the man with a serious face at home, wearing a playboy mask, announcing in front of the public about the reform plan for the way of donating to welfare institutions and the reasons for it.
"I said why is he in such a hurry, it turns out that the reform plan has been introduced, hum~ Now the group of guys who want to take money from the children's mouths are probably going to cry"
Dick shoved a handful of popcorn into his mouth and said, changing a few more stations, and finally stopped at the most-watched holiday feature, watching the show with Jason until Bruce returned.
Bruce came back looking at the well-wrapped gift box under the Christmas tree with a strange expression, and he thought Jason would open the gift so he could find an excuse to ask him if he liked it.
Dick jumped and ran, and said in a loud voice:
"This kid wants to wait for you to come back and open the gifts, it's so cute"
"I didn't!"
The gift was finally opened, and the hand-woven red scarf Barbara gave seemed to be Jason's liking. Dick's gift box contains a stack of hug rolls, which are then thrown into the trash in front of Jason, and the "heartbroken" Dick pulls out the gift he really has prepared - a pair of sneakers.
Bruce's gift was completely beyond Dick's expectations, it was a pot of cactus flowers.
“... I thought you'd get a little more cash at most."
Dick couldn't help but complain, he had thought about what to say when Jason opened Bruce's gift, but it turned out that it was completely unnecessary now.
"Gifts must be chosen to show sincerity"
Alfred gave the reason for the gift change.
Alfred's gift box contained a beautiful tie clip, not like the diamond-encrusted haute couture used by Bruce, but the sophistication of the box was indicative of its price, well in line with Alfred's aesthetic.
In addition to these, there is also a gift box from Clark, which opens to reveal a beautiful fountain pen.
Jason looked at these things at a loss, he didn't know what to say or do at this time, how did everyone else do it? He didn't prepare anything yet...
"Didn't I say it, you just need to say thank you at this time."
Dick bent down and put his arms around Jason's neck and said, and then he heard the "thank you" that was not much louder than the sound of mosquitoes!