Selena stood in the sailboat hut not far from Gotham Beach. Maggie was looking down and counting money to take stock of today's harvest. All the small accessories they made the day before were sold out. After deducting the cost, they still made a net profit.
Over twenty dollars.
Just as Selena was filling her mouth with ice soda, Maggie put a roll of dollars into Selena's hand. Just as Selena was about to say something, Maggie said: "Don't say those things that make you sad."
I was so jealous that I wanted to push you into the sea. I know this is nothing, but if you want to confidently refuse Bruce to hang a lot of things on you, you must have some confidence."
Selena immediately came to Maggie's side, kissed Maggie hard, and said to her with a smile: "Okay, I know you don't like me to be a thief. I haven't done that for a long time. I rely on labor."
Make money, right?”
Maggie pushed her away with a bit of disgust and said, "This is to prevent him from saying to you 'if you leave me, you can only be a thief' when you have a fight one day."
"Don't worry, if he dares to say that to me, I will scratch his face." Although Selina said this, she still sighed.
After breaking up with Maggie, Selina hitchhiked with the owner of the sailing cabin. However, Selina was going to Wayne Manor, and the boss was not exactly on the same road, so Selina asked the boss to meet her in the South District.
Parking at an intersection at the junction of the East End, she walked to Wayne Manor.
On the way to Wayne Manor, Selina suddenly discovered that a large retail store had opened next to the middle-class community on the edge of the South District. It looked like a chain brand, with a huge floor-to-ceiling window and various kinds of products on display behind it.
Products of.
Selena was not very interested in going to the supermarket, so she planted two very large trees in front of the mall. The shade of the trees there could very well help Selena avoid being exposed to the sun when walking along this section of the road. She did it without even thinking about it.
Walked over there.
There happened to be a floor-to-ceiling window next to the shade of the tree. Selina had nothing to do so she looked inside. Suddenly, her steps stopped because she saw a familiar figure on the row of retail shelves closest to the window in this supermarket.
commodity.
"Oh my god, are those pauper cookies?" Selena covered her forehead with her hands, leaned on the window and looked inside, and said in amazement: "This thing is still on sale? It has already increased to 39 cents.
?! I remember when I was a kid it only cost 5 cents a packet."
Selena licked her lips, as if recalling the taste in her memory. She hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the reward that Maggie had given her in her hand. There happened to be a few change in it, and finally walked into the supermarket door.
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Two minutes later, Selina walked out with two packages of cookies satisfied. She walked to the flower bed in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and sat down. She put one package of cookies on the side of her legs, picked up the other package and looked at it.
.
"It turns out that there are five packs combined into one pack, but that's a lot more expensive. My old man, I'm afraid no one will dare to call you a poor cookie now. After all, Wayne's chocolate chip cookies only cost one dollar a pack."
Selena muttered while tearing the packaging bag with her hands, but after tinkering for a long time, she discovered that this kind of home packaging had no convenient opening at all and was difficult to open without scissors.
Selina fumbled around and found that she had no weapons on her, not even a slightly sharp key. She sighed, picked up another package of biscuits and stood up, thinking that she could only go back to Wayne Manor to find a solution.
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Alfred soon pushed open the door of the manor, smiled and said to Selina who walked in: "Miss Aisha went to Rodriguez Manor for classes, and she won't be back for about half an hour. You can eat first.
Afternoon tea, I’ll prepare it now.”
"No, no need, Alfred." Selina stopped Alfred, shook the cookie in her hand and said, "I have this, can you give me a pair of scissors?"
Selina quickly took out a small pack of cookies from the sturdy family package. Inside the small pack were two not-thick pieces of cookie flour, sugar and chocolate beans. The surface was brushed with a layer of butter, and then dried with soil.
Yellow.
Selina just put a cookie into her mouth and said as if she had thought of something: "By the way, Alfred, I want to go to Bruce's study. There shouldn't be anything important there now, right?"
"No, you can use it. Do you want me to help you carry the tea tray?"
"Thank you, but no, I'm not thirsty right now."
After saying that, Selina walked towards the second floor with the cookie in her mouth, then opened the study door and walked in. Alfred stood next to the coffee table and scanned the items Selina left on the table with his sharp eyes like an eagle.
The ingredient list on the cookie package is the same as the paper.
During dinner, Selina and Bruce were both told that Elsa spent the night at Rodriguez Manor, so they did not go to the big dining room to eat, but sat on the kitchen island to eat a simple meal made by Alfred.
.
The staple food was a sandwich with cold black pork ham slices and pea puree, Belgian butter mussels and oil-soaked tuna tartare. Selina took a big bite of the sandwich and while chewing, she discovered that under the dim light, Bruce looked at
There was an inexplicable hesitation in her eyes.
Selina gave Bruce a puzzled look, but Bruce still hesitated and finished a tartare before saying, "Did you go to the study today?"
"Yes, Alfred said there was nothing important there, so I went to find a book to read. Of course I didn't read it carefully, I just flipped through it."
"Did you eat in there?"
Selena froze immediately. She tried her best to swallow the food in her mouth, rolled her eyes to the other side and said, "Probably... none, or... a little bit?"
"Is it yes or no?" Bruce asked helplessly.
"Okay, I ate a cookie. It wasn't a flavorful food, and I made sure to wrap it in a paper towel so it didn't contaminate your book."
Bruce took out a small transparent bag from his pocket, which was like a rectangular bag commonly used to hold a small piece of solid raw materials in a chemistry laboratory. There was a cookie half as big as a fingernail placed in it.
scum.
"Oh my God, when did it fall off?!" Selena said in disbelief: "I almost had to look down at the ground twenty times after taking one bite. How could it still fall off?"
"I found it in the gap of the sofa next to the bed. Maybe it fell on your clothes while you were reading, and then slipped into the gap when you stood up."
"Come on, Bruce, you must have had afternoon tea in the study, right? This kind of food tends to fall apart, and I'm not a cookie detective."
Selena looked at Bruce with wide eyes, trying to get away with it, but found that Bruce's expression had not changed, so she could only groan in frustration and said.
"Okay, I thought I could eat there, so I brought the uneaten cookies in. I promise I won't do it next time. I'm not saying the cookies won't fall apart, but they won't fall apart again.
It fell on the sofa in your study, I promise!"
Looking at Selina who was crossing herself and swearing, Bruce put the small bag flat on the table, then he put his hands on the table, looked at Selina and said: "You can eat in the study, I used to be there
The reasons why cookies fall apart during afternoon tea are complicated, but I don’t care.”
"But, Selina, I analyzed the pore structure in the cookie flour and the source of the cocoa powder in this half chocolate bean, and found that this is a product produced by a cheap food company from the metropolitan area, priced at
Family size 39 cent GNE Chocolate Butter Cookies…”
Selina's eyes widened in shock. She heard the dissatisfaction in Bruce's words, so she put down the food in her hand, jumped off the bar chair, spread her hands and looked at Bruce and said: "God! Listen to you.
As you said, cheap food production company, food is just food, you don’t want to stop me from eating the cheap food in your mouth, do you?!”
"Come on, Bruce, I'm not a rich girl like you who was born to eat organic food. You can't ask me to completely stop eating food produced on industrial assembly lines, just because you regard it as cheap food, which is better than what you insist on."
Putting those horrible dresses on me is outrageous!"
"Listen, Selena, this has nothing to do with its price. I'm definitely not..."
"You are definitely not discriminating against my origin." Selena stood across the island, looking at Bruce with her hands on her hips and said: "Then you have to say, I have better choices now, and there is no need for me to eat these cheap food anymore.
Food, you provide me with these because you love me, so I don’t need to mind at all, and don’t be ashamed to live a better life. You completely forgive me for these little habits..."
"Okay, listen to me, Bruce, I'm really sorry for leaving cookie crumbs on your couch. I'll try not to eat anywhere other than the table next time, but I'll eat what I want.
Stuff, cheap or not, you can't possibly manipulate me in that regard."
Bruce's expression looked a little helpless. Selina looked into his eyes and took two steps back, shook her head, turned and walked towards the door.
Selina left Wayne Manor all the way. With her skills, she didn't need to worry about the security situation in Gotham at night, so she simply climbed to the top of a building, planning to walk around Gotham as before.
Circle to vent your frustrations.
But just when she climbed to the top of the building, a black shadow appeared behind her, and a slightly hoarse female voice came from the wind: "Look, an angry kitten, and your cat
Did the Lord have a quarrel?"
Selena turned around sharply and saw a black-haired woman wearing a dark windbreaker standing behind her. In an instant, Selena recalled that she had seen this face in the newspaper.
"Talia'ogu?"
"It's me." Thalia smiled, and at some point she was standing behind Selena, and then said: "Are you angry that I accused your richest boyfriend?"
Selena took a deep breath, and in an instant she moved, nimbly dodging to the side like a cat, and the dark whip rolled towards Thalia like a flexible snake's tail.
"Are you angry because I said the central thing?" Thalia quickly dodged and threw three concealed weapons in a whoosh without forcing Selina back at all. She observed the trajectory of the whip and said: "It seems
You are going to side with Bruce, but also, how many women can refuse the title of wife of the world's richest man?"
With a "snap" sound, the force of the whip became stronger. Thalia saw the anger and murderous intent on Selina's face, but did not notice her hands that were as curved as eagle talons hidden behind her back.
"Bara!"
It was late at night, and Bruce, who was still standing in front of the kitchen island, looked at Selena who opened the door and walked in, and his eyes fell on her fingers, which were still stained with blood.
Selena's eyes shimmered in the darkness. She stared straight at Bruce and said, "I apologize for what I said before. Cheap food is not the most extreme adjective. We used to call those biscuits 'poor man's song.'"
strange'."
"I didn't mean..."
"Shut up and listen to me, do you know why I bought it?"
Bruce looked at Selina silently, knowing that Selina didn't need his answer. Selina threw the whip in her hand to the sofa and said, "When I followed Lucky Mom and stole things for her,
, she would go shopping every week to a place we didn’t know, and buy a large bag of bulk poor man’s cookies that cost 5 cents per bag, and put them on the top of the closet.”
"Only the best-behaved kids get a small packet, and I get an extra packet every week because I have the best relationship with her and she likes me."
"Unlike you rich people who have been having afternoon tea in the manor with black tea since they were born, it was the only sweet that I could eat when I was a child, so I bought it."
Bruce's expression softened, but before a second passed, he heard Selina roar: "This is the story you want to hear, right! Poor people either have to have a tragic past or nothing else.
The choice is either short-sighted or short-sighted before you choose something! You damn rich guys!"
"I'm telling you, Bruce Wayne, I'd rather eat a 39-cent bag of pauper's cookies than a 39-dollar slice of organic cake you're offering me because of cheap cookies.
It’s so sweet! I just love eating junk food that’s high in sugar and calories!!!”
“And I don’t want to dress like a Christmas tree at my wedding, not because it’s expensive or expensive and I don’t think I can afford it, but because it’s so fucking uncomfortable!!!”