Chapter 39: What to Send
Dick was lying bored in bed and watching the TV, thanks to the blow on his back, he could now rest at home early, the home of Wayne Manor.
Christmas is approaching, and with the festive atmosphere on the road and on TV, Gotham doesn't lose sight of this wonderful holiday because of more crime than anywhere else.
But the criminals of Gotham are not going to give up on this wonderful holiday. But Dick wasn't having a headache with those guys at the moment. What baffles his nerves is that he's thinking about what Christmas presents to give Jason.
Because of his status, Dick seems to have a lot of friends but not many really good ones, and in previous years he only had to think about giving gifts to Bruce, Barbara, and Alfred.
Barbara, girls, beautiful clothes, jewelry are all things to choose from, but these are definitely impossible to send to Jason.
Bruce....... I feel that it is very inferior to take the money given by Bruce to buy gifts for Bruce, so when Dick was a child, he gave back rolls or something, and then he began to slowly make weapons by himself, so he gave Bruce the darts he made as gifts. Why don't you send Jason some weapons? He seems to be very interested in his electric baton, why don't you make him one?
But weapons are such things, you need to try them for a long time to know what you are suitable for, he has used all the weapons known so far since he was a child, and finally chose this electric baton to use until now, Dick is not sure if Jason is suitable for this kind of double stick.
To Alfred... The gifts for Alfred were all very mediocre, basically things from the gift shop, and Jason didn't seem to be very interested in the things that were purely for show.
After thinking about it for a long time, Dick still didn't come up with one, two, three, Dick picked up the phone at hand and dialed Barbara's phone, and it didn't take long for the phone to ring.
"Dick? What's wrong? ”
"Hi, Barbara, what Christmas present are you going to give Jason?"
Dick knew that Barbara would definitely give Jason a gift, and she would prepare small gifts for each of them every year, so he wanted to get some inspiration from her.
"Jason? I knitted him a scarf."
"Huh? You haven't knitted anything for me."
"You can buy better, Bruce didn't cut off your financial resources"
"Jason also has pocket money, okay, he just doesn't spend it"
Dick was not too happy with Barbara's handiwork. It's definitely not as good as haute couture items, and she rarely knits things, because of long-term training, Barbara's finger joints are not as soft as ordinary girls, and the delicate work of weaving is a little difficult for her, so she is not good at manual work, and this time she actually knits a scarf for Jason? Dick felt his stomach start to regurgitate a little.
"It's different, isn't it?"
Barbara sometimes wants to pry open the heads of the father and son to see what kind of circuitry they have in their brains, or is it the difference between a man and a woman? But her father would have noticed.
"What's the difference?"
"Dick, Jason has never had Christmas, right, when you and Bruce are trying to get your parents to buy them the gifts they want, Jason's only thinking is how to live, I'm sure you must have asked him what he wanted, but I can guess that he will definitely answer that you don't, Christmas gifts are like Santa Claus to Jason, do you understand what I'm talking about?"
Barbara's words made Dick flustered for a moment, and when Jason said no, he thought it was just Jason's uneasiness that came out again, for fear that he would ask too much and be hated, so he said no, he never thought that Jason really didn't think about what kind of Christmas gift he wanted, after all, children are looking forward to Christmas and Christmas gifts, right? At least that's what he's looking forward to most when he's a kid.
Holding his phone and looking at the ceiling, Dick thought carefully about Barbara's words and said:
"You say... What would Bruce give to Jason? ”
"Him?"
"Yes, he"
“..... You don't have to guess, right?"
"Haha, I wonder what will happen when Jason opens the gift bag and finds a wad of cash inside"
"It's enough, can't he really choose a gift, obviously he will be very serious about choosing a gift for his female companion"
"You also know that it is for the female companion, jewelry, dresses, cosmetics, bags, he will only choose among these things, and these are impossible to give to Jason"
"That's enough, does he only give money when he gives gifts to men?"
"Haha, Superman sends a wad of cash directly to his birthday every year"
Dick and Barbara are discussing on the phone, and Bruce, who is ridiculed by the two as 'giving a man a gift only gives money'. Wayne, at the moment, was sitting in the living room, looking at the stack of books on the desk. That serious expression was easily reminiscent of him looking at the financial statements of Wayne Enterprises at the moment. But sadly, those colorful covers negate this most likely possibility.
The magazine Bruce was reading at the moment was introducing a stack of various toy models, several of which were products of his Wayne Enterprise. Of course, it's not because Bruce is dissatisfied with the profits of Wayne Enterprises' toy industry division and plans to make a reform or something, he will look at these things that he usually doesn't look at at all just because of Alfred's words:
"Master Bruce, I think in order to show your attitude, you should personally pick a gift as the first Christmas gift that Master Jason came to Wayne Manor, instead of taking a wad of cash and putting a layer of wrapping paper on the bread outside."
Flipping through the model magazine in his hand, Bruce still couldn't understand why he couldn't just use money as a gift, so as to avoid the embarrassment of buying something that the other party didn't like.
Turning the page, this page advertises a model of a spaceship, the model is very delicate and large, and the combination will definitely make people feel a sense of accomplishment, but Bruce doesn't think Jason likes this thing.
Closing the magazine in his hand, Bruce suddenly realizes that he doesn't know anything about Jason's hobbies. Jason never asked for what kind of clothes, what kind of food, what toys he wanted, at most he just soaked in the study and read a book during his break.
When Dick was a child, he would come to him to ask him for what he wanted, but Jason never asked him for anything, the card given to Jason has not received any bill so far, and the pocket money given to Jason has never been passive, Jason has only been studying, training and patrolling with him every day, and occasionally going out with Dick, but the farthest distance will not go beyond the area closest to Wayne Manor.
"You can take him to the amusement park for a while"
Alfred walked in with a snack and saw Bruce, who was lost in thought, offer a suggestion of his own.
"Ah Fu, Jason likes to read a lot, right?"
"Yes, Master Jason loves to read literary books, but let me remind you that the study at Wayne Manor has almost every book in the world."
Alfred's words shattered Bruce's calculations, and it was indeed a bit inappropriate to make gifts from what he already had.
Bruce sighed, it doesn't seem necessary to buy a small animal for Jason, Jason has Ace and has a good raiser, Ace is very smart and trained very well, the little milk dog that couldn't even walk steadily at the beginning has now grown into the basic appearance of an adult dog.
Bruce turned his face sideways to look out the window at the garden, which was regularly maintained by the professional gardener Alfred, and in the professional art of gardening, the tree that was trimmed crookedly was particularly deceptive.
“... Jason also seems to be fond of plants.........."