"Have you already chosen the address of your restaurant?" Still in the East End? ”

Schiller and Cobott are led by the waiter into the Falcone estate, where Schiller asks about Copote's new dining room as they go.

"Yes, the address has been chosen, not far from the East End Docks, at the mansion of the old Edwards." Cobot replied.

"It seems that you are very ambitious." Schiller said with a smile.

"It's all thanks to the godfather." Copote looked down and said, "It was originally for the wealthy, and I said that it would be transformed into an ordinary restaurant that dock workers could enter, and he didn't object. ”

"It shows that he is very optimistic about you."

Schiller looked up and looked straight ahead, through the long porch, Schiller could already see the figure of the godfather sitting in the master of the restaurant, he hadn't seen him for a while, he hadn't aged much, he was always very tall and in good spirits.

The two walked into the dining room, and Schiller and Falcone embraced, they hadn't seen each other for a long time.

After all, since Alberto took over the Falcone family business, he has had little time to attend classes, only Evans will go to college on a regular basis, but Schiller rarely tutors him individually because of his good grades.

"God bless you, Professor, what have you been up to lately?" Falcone asked.

"It's still the same thing." Schiller took the cigar from the waiter's hand, put it in his mouth and took a puff, and said, "Prepare for class, attend class, write papers, and besides, I have become a tutor to the two children of the Wayne family, and I have to teach them." ”

Falcone also took the cigar, took a puff, smiled and said, "I really didn't expect that little Wayne would have a child so early, but it's okay, I'm looking forward to Evans getting married soon." ”

"If a man doesn't get married, he'll always be a little boy, and I know that." The godfather tapped his finger lightly on the table and said, "If he can't learn to take on the responsibilities of the family and don't know how to protect women and children, then he has no say in anything, and I have always ruled the twelve families in this way." ”

"Family does make men more mature." Schiller paused and said, "But there are people who need to learn more. ”

Falkena seemed to hear who he was talking about, and he smiled again, looking relaxed, and said, "If a man chooses a path that is destined to be very difficult, then he should bear it himself, and in most cases, he will sacrifice a lot." ”

Schiller turned his head and saw that Falcone's eyes narrowed, and between the ethereal smoke, he seemed to remember something.

"Your Excellency Godfather, maybe we all think like this, when you go to teach someone, you always want to say more, but you know very well that some things are useless just by saying, sometimes, you don't want him to pay, but you know that he will have to pay."

"At this point, I'll weigh what he's going to pay for, and if he's just falling, let him fall." Falcone leaned to the left and rested the elbow of the hand holding the cigar on the arm of the chair.

"There will always be a moment in a person's life when he will break his head and bleed, either today or tomorrow, in that case, then let him go." Falcone said with a wave of his hand.

Schiller laughed and said, "Is it the same for Evans?" ”

"Of course not, he's far from being a mature man." Falcone took another puff of smoke and said, "I've been getting better lately, maybe after we get married, it's going to get better." ”

"Let's get down to business, Copter, how's your restaurant? Has construction already started? Falcone said, looking at Copote.

Cobot never looked directly at the godfather, he just looked at the table in front of him and said, "Yes, actually, the renovation is nearing completion, but the suppliers I contacted before have some problems, and I am talking to them." ”

"You have to show your wrists." Falcone shook his head and said, "Don't use the word negotiation to threaten them, put a gun to their heads, and don't forget, in Gotham, you have to be a gangster before you can be a businessman." ”

"The place you chose is the best place and the worst place, and every docker in the East End is full of resentment because it's their off-limits, no matter whatever

How much money they make, they can't get in. ”

"Once, old Edward's sister, in order to get a ticket to the mansion, wanted to climb into my bed, I didn't like her, so she went to find someone else, she went in, but was quickly thrown out, because at that time, she was not yet a young lady in the family."

"I think it should be an ulterior motive to open a mansion used for the gathering of twelve family members in the most prosperous place in the Eastern District, right?" Schiller asked.

"That's right, I'm going to show them that there are so many lives in this world that they can't touch, and they're going angry, jealous, and going crazy."

"They won't work more because of this, because they know that the money they get for their work will not let them live like this, they will steal, they will rob, they will kill people and goods, and I am encouraging this behavior."

"As long as they do the same thing as the gangsters, they must be ruled by me, and if everyone follows the law, Gotham is finished."

"Conformity means weakness and deception, you can be a fierce slave, but you can't be an independent weakling."

"Gotham people know that they can be vicious, vicious, and cold, but they must not show weakness, once they start crying, they are holding a funeral for themselves in advance, and once people cry, they have no strength to resist."

Falcone was halfway through the cigar when he said this, and the smoke was very close to his fingers, swirling around his fingertips like a mist rising from among the vines in the morning, weaving through the towering trees.

"Why aren't you crying?" In a hospital room, Batman looked at the eight children around him and asked, "Why do you only scream, but you don't have tears, don't you shed tears?" ”

Everyone stood around, quietly watching him, Batman half-knelt down, looking into their eyes, and at this time, the stronger of the eight children stepped forward, he was a white man, the loveliest of all, and he said:

"Hello, what are you going to do for us?" He lowered his head, twisted the corners of his clothes with his hands, and said, "We are too young to deliver newspapers, and if we are to beg, I, Bigfoot, and Fang Pian can all go to the outer streets, and the rest of us can only work in the inner streets." ”

"I don't want you to work." Batman repeated, "I wish you could lie down in a hospital bed now, instead of yelling and biting at the doctor who was going to give you the injections." ”

But the little boy ignored him completely, and said to himself: "You are our new employer, we will call you Dad, me and a few other older children, only half a loaf of bread a day, everyone else only needs a quarter, we will give you all the money, we are all good boys." ”

Batman stood there, his fingers pressed against his forehead, feeling his breathing a little sluggish.

He approached the little boy, put his hand on his shoulder, looked him in the eye and said to him: "I am not one of those 'mom and dad', I am the one who came to save you, I will not let you go to the street to beg and give me the money." ”

However, Batman saw that the little boy's eyes showed a look of horror, and he seemed to try to suppress his fear, and said, "Daddy...... I mean, sir, we're too young, we're ...... We can't do that kind of work...... Or, maybe we'll have to wait until we're a little older......"

Batman naturally knew what he was talking about, and as soon as he wanted to say something, he saw that the other children were trembling, and the thinnest little girl among them finally couldn't stand it anymore, and she began to wail again: "I've seen it...... I've seen them ...... Serena If she's dead, I'll die too......"

All the children started howling incessantly, they let out all kinds of senseless screams, but there were no tears, everyone ran to the corner, huddled together, unable to communicate at all.

"Don't cry!"

Batman finally lowered his voice, and he stopped speaking to the kids in the same voice that he spoke to Aisha or Dick.

When he made this noise, he found that he seemed to be warning them in the same tone that he used to rebuke criminals.

But the amazing thing is that when he finished scolding, all the children stopped crying, they crouched in place, stared, and looked at Batman, who took a deep breath

angry, I felt a deep helplessness.

All the children in this room are older than Aisha, but in reality, there is not much difference between their size and Aisha, and there are even a few younger ones, who are even smaller than Aisha.

In the face of such children, Batman at this time had no way to force them to do anything, he could only persuade them over and over again, trying to establish some sense of order and security for them.

Until the time came late at night, the continuous night rain became heavier and heavier, and when the raindrops fell into the sea, it brought a hazy halo, and the lights of Gotham Pier continued day and night, and after the logistics developed better, there were more people here.

Not far from the pier, a mansion stands out of place with the surrounding buildings, but now the door number has been changed to "Iceberg Restaurant".

This kind of building is a bit too big for a restaurant, with a full seven floors, an extremely luxurious gate, and dozens of parking spaces.

In the middle of the dining room, Colbert stood in front of the reception desk and said to the nine children standing in front of him:

"Listen, now, I'm your boss, your new employer, and the new job you're going to do, not to go out and beg, that's not much money."

"See? The whole building here is mine, and now, lift up your heads, take a good look at it, and with your shallow knowledge and vision, and look at the materials used for everything here, and you will know who I am. ”

All the children looked up in response, and at first, they were not looking at it seriously, but soon they were fascinated by the intricate and ornate ceiling.

The hall on the first floor was originally a dance floor, so the ceiling was beautifully carved, all of which have been preserved, and these children have never seen such a beautiful thing in their lives.

There are very few children begging in Gotham, and most of these children are abandoned babies who have been picked up by those mothers, and they have lived in those narrow dark alleys since they were children, and even if they can work on the outer street, they just find a broken corner to sit on, and never dare to look up at people.

Soon, they all opened their mouths and kept turning their heads, looking at everything they had never seen, although they had not seen these things, but they could understand their beauty, it was human instinct.

"Well, I'm sure you should be able to see that I'm much richer than your boss, and I've killed your former employer and snatched you from them in order to make me more money."

Copote's words were very straightforward, without using any words of despair of illiterate difficulty, so the children understood what he was talking about very easily.

Then one of the strongest of them stood up and asked, "What do you want us to do?" ”

"You're the leader of this group, aren't you? Come, come here. Cobot pointed to the floor in front of him, and the kid walked over slowly, and Cobot pointed around the restaurant, and said, "Right now, my restaurant hasn't opened yet, and all you have to do is clean it during this time." ”

"Listen, I'm different from those poor ghosts, starving you will only make you have no strength to work, so, here, you can eat enough, you sleep in the basement, four people in a room, two people in a bed, you will have two identical handyman uniforms to wear."

"However, working here is not just a matter of finding a random place to sit there, you have to follow the rules, otherwise you will look good."

"There are two meals a day at 7 o'clock and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, there is bread and some leftovers, the stove can be used to heat up, if you want to drink water, go to the tap, and when the guests are gone, roll back to the room, don't run around."

"On the way here, where should you see, this is the outer street where you used to work, if you run out at night, no one will go to the garbage truck tomorrow morning to rummage over your body."

"Also, don't let me catch any of you stealing, you should know the consequences."

"We're not going to steal, we're going to give everything to you, we're all good boys." The leading boy said.

"Alright, now, go back to your room, no

Don't come out. With that, Cobot made a color and asked the tall subordinate next to him to take the group of children to the basement.

What no one saw was that the leading boy struggled to twitch the muscles at the corners of his mouth the moment he turned around, revealing a smile that looked like surprise.