Chapter 285: Early Morning at Wayne Manor
In the early morning, the dim and hazy light sprinkled on the dining table, the soft sound of glass against silverware was particularly pleasant, the tablecloth fell smoothly from the countertop, Alfred put down the last meal, Bruce, who was sitting in the main seat, nodded to him, and the old butler turned away with a pleased gaze.
Bruce sat at the head of the long dining table, opposite Selena, Selena was on her right, and Dick was next to Aisha, on the surface, it was a very harmonious breakfast scene for the family of four, but after Bruce tapped the goblet with a fork to signal the meal to start, it became chicken and dog jumping again.
Most children have a very strange habit of putting everything in their mouths when they are not eating, and when it is time to eat, they don't eat a single bite as if they have a grudge against food.
But fortunately, Aisha's appetite has always been very strong, or rather, a little too exuberant, and she likes to put everything in her mouth at any time and place.
With a "click", a piece of the plate containing the sandwich was bitten off, and Dick, who was drinking water, squirted out a mouthful of water, and was choked and coughed twice, he quickly turned around and patted Aisha on the back, asking her to spit out the broken porcelain.
Dick hurriedly wiped his mouth with a napkin, then gestured and said, "No, Aisha, that's not part of the sandwich!" That's a plate! It's cutlery, you know? You can't eat it...... Wait a minute! Put down that cup! ”
With a "click", the cup was also bitten by Aisha, and the milk in it spilled Aisha's body, Dick covered his eyes, and then took the towel from Alfred's hand and wiped the stains on her body, the old butler kept smiling, and seemed to like this scene very much.
"Aisha, don't bite the dishes, don't trouble Alfred." Bruce spoke, and Alfred said, "Oh, it's all right, sir, you spilled milk several times when you were younger, and that's normal......"
Bruce opened his mouth, he wanted to say that spilling the milk and biting a gap in the milk cup were two completely different things.
But Aisha's fangs are so amazing in combat, whether it's a ceramic plate, a glass milk cup, a fiber tablecloth or a wooden table, you can bite off a large piece with a single click.
Dick taught Aisha how to hold the fork, but Aisha picked it up and put it in her mouth, and then "clicked" it. The head of the metal fork was bitten off, and Dick stared at Aisha with wide eyes, chewing the metal fork as if she were chewing gum, and he looked down at his arm where the tooth marks had not faded, and swallowed.
Aisha spat out the poor fork, which had been chewed into a shapeless piece of metal, after Dick threw it away. Asked Alfred again for a new fork, and at that moment, Aisha suddenly exclaimed, "Wow! Wow!!! ”
Selena, who was dozing off, suddenly woke up, she rubbed her eyes, and said, "Bruce, she's calling you ......"
Bruce looked at Aisha, Aisha held out her arm to him, Bruce could only put the knife and fork down, then walked to Aisha's seat, picked her up, and then he asked Selena, "How do you know what she means?" ”
"Didn't you notice that Aisha has been learning to speak lately?"
Selena was holding her head with one hand, looking very sleepy, because she slept late last night, she said: "Last night you were not at home, I played with her with blocks, and then she suddenly yelled like this, I don't understand what's wrong, and then I found out that she seems to be looking for you......"
Bruce held Aisha in his arms a little farther away, and then looked closely, Aisha grinned at him with her fangs on her teeth, and made a muffled "wow" sound from her mouth, Dick turned around, and he listened carefully and said, "She seems to want to call 'Daddy', but she can't pronounce the letter 'P'." ”
Bruce carried Aisha to his own seat and sat down, and fed her a sandwich with a fork, Aisha bit off the sandwich and the fork's head in one bite, Bruce quickly made him spit it out, but Aisha chewed two bites and swallowed it directly, and after swallowing, she stared at Bruce with big eyes and an innocent expression.
"Don't worry, she's fine." Selena took a sip of the juice and said, "Didn't you notice that your daughter has a lot of special abilities?" ”
“…… What special abilities? ”
"Do you think a normal kid can run at a speed of 120 mph in three seconds? Can you jump from the third floor unscathed, swallow three blocks and still jump alive? ”
"Obviously, Aisha has superpowers."
Bruce stared at Aisha in his arms, but Dick's eyes lit up, he looked at Bruce and asked, "Superpowers??" …… Mr. Wayne, Aisha is your own daughter, so you ...... to say so."
"I didn't." Bruce denied it directly, but Dick obviously didn't believe it, children of this age are extremely yearning for superpowers from heaven to earth, and looking at Dick's expression, he knows that he very much wants Bruce to perform a take-off on the spot......
After hugging Aisha for a while, Bruce got up again, put her back in place, then looked at Dick and asked him, "Where have you been lately?" Yesterday at noon I wanted you to go with me to get the car fixed, and Alfred told me that you and Aisha were out of the house......"
"Oh......" Dick said with a somewhat unnatural touch of his knife and fork, "I ...... I met some new people. ”
"New friend, who's that?"
"Hmm......" Dick hesitated, seemingly a little speechless.
Although he knows that Bruce is not an ordinary person, he still doesn't know that he is Batman, in his eyes, Bruce is a super rich South Side big guy, he doesn't know if Bruce will hate the poor ghosts in the East End like other rich people in the South Side.
But Dick and Jason are quite fun, on the one hand, because they are close in age and there are always more topics among their peers, on the other hand, his background is not very good, and the opulent environment of Wayne Manor makes him very uncomfortable and a little restrained, but it is Jason's tattered underground base that makes him feel more relaxed.
But he couldn't tell Bruce about that, because he was able to stay in Gotham now because of Bruce, and he knew he didn't have the skills to roam the streets of Gotham alone like Jason.
After a few days of familiarity, Dick knew that if he wanted to mix in Gotham, he couldn't just have martial arts, and because he was young, he was not very good at martial arts, and he lacked actual combat experience in street fighting.
Dick was afraid that if he spoke out, Bruce would let him break up with the group, but Dick didn't want to do that, because he thought it was fun to live on the streets, not only to hone his skills, but also to see all sorts of very interesting things.
For example, just yesterday, the Curletail Gang led by Jason had a fight with the Red Mouth Gang on Red Mouth Street, and these young gangs fought in the streets, although they were small and well-organized, not only had to find out the information in advance, reconnoiter the terrain, prepare weapons, organize manpower, and even divide them into different arms, some people looked at the wind, some people fought, some people cushioned behind, and so on.
In short, in the society of Gotham children, the bloody and cruel side of those adult gangsters is reduced, because these children can't get any powerful weapons, and fights rarely involve life-threatening fights, but the beauty of those thrills, wildness and violence is preserved, which can easily attract young boys of Dick's age.
But Dick knew that this group of rich people definitely didn't think so, they wanted their children to learn piano, violin, ballet, etiquette and so on.
As soon as he thought of this, Bruce said to Dick: "Since I adopted you, I am responsible for you, I have already told Alfred, starting tomorrow, you will go to that boarding school in the north, which is the best boarding school in all of Gotham, whether it is the hardware conditions or the teachers, it is one of the best, and the courses there are also rich, such as Latin, ballet, harp, etc......"
Dick looked at Selena with a distress-seeking gaze, and Selena shook her head and made a helpless expression.
Dick sighed, he thought that Bruce had adopted him to find a babysitter for his own daughter, but now it seemed that it might as well be a babysitter.
In the midst of this chat, Bruce finished his breakfast, wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "I'll go out later, I guess I'll be back in the evening, and Alfred will prepare lunch and dinner for you." ”
said. And he left the table, and Selena stretched out, looking a little sleepy, and left the table, and went upstairs to catch up on sleep, and Dick sat down and sighed, and then picked up Aisha and said to him:
"Let's go, I'll take you out to play, in two days my good days are over, and you won't see me."
Aisha didn't seem to understand what Dick was worried about, she kept screaming, and from the intonation and frequency of her screams, she was trying very hard to imitate human language.
Dick simply taught her: "'papa', pronounce it like this, purse your lips, and then make a soft 'p' sound......"
"The word is father, which means Mr. Wayne, and he's your father, so you're going to call him 'papa,' but if you're a little older, you're going to call him daddy or father."
"This word is used by children, but in fact, these words mean father, but one is a spoken name for babies, one is a colloquial name, one is a written name, and of course, the words of grandfather and grandmother are also ......"
Aisha, who was still practicing her pronunciation just now, was stunned on the spot.
Originally. Language is the unique function of the creatures on the order side, the chaotic creatures don't need this kind of thing at all, they are born unique, they don't have a race, they don't need to communicate, they don't need to understand each other, they are born of chaos, and they will eventually return to chaos, and everything that has logic will not appear in their world.
And when a chaotic creature suddenly transforms into an orderly creature, it is difficult enough to understand the meaning of the existence of language itself, and it is even more difficult to learn pronunciation, tone, words, and grammar.
Before she could figure out how to pronounce the simplest of words, Dick told her that there were endless words to learn in this world, and that it was a real headache for the monster.
Not wanting to hear Dick any more, Aisha broke free from his embrace and ran out, and as soon as she ran to the lawn, she felt a somewhat familiar force approaching.
Aisha was stunned for a moment, looked up at the sky, and vaguely saw two figures, one yellow and one green, colliding together.
She tried to turn her brain and think for a moment, then she swung her little short legs and staggered back into the house, just as she bumped into Dick who had just tried to chase him out.
Aisha waved her arms and yelled at him, but Dick couldn't understand what she was going to say, and Aisha learned from Dick and covered her forehead with some distress.
She kept saying "ahhhh