Thomas was sitting in the main seat reading the newspaper, which was his favorite Gotham Pier Evening News. He was examining every word on the front page with a hawk-like sharp gaze.
This brought back memories of Batman's childhood. Almost every morning and evening, when he walked out of his room, he could see Thomas holding a newspaper.
Martha was confirming the completion of the dishes with Alfred at the door of the restaurant. Soon she came over and nodded to a few people and said: "Dinner will start in 10 minutes. Children, go and call your partners over.
Don’t keep your meal waiting too long.”
"I bet Dick is catching up on his homework again, and the two of them are helping him finish it before the deadline so that he can cope with my inspection after dinner." Thomas said without looking up.
The three Robins brought down by Batman took their seats one after another. Tim ran upstairs to call the other two. Batman walked to the opposite side of Bruce, but was in no hurry to sit down.
Bruce was arranging his napkin, and stretched out his hands to reach the knot of the napkin at the back of his neck, as if he wanted to untie it and retie it, but he couldn't reach it for a long time.
Martha came over, stood behind the chair and helped him untie the napkin. Bruce turned back and smiled at her, "Thank you, Mom."
Martha patted the back of his chair gently, smiled and walked away, while Bruce tied the napkin back on. His movement caused Thomas to look in his direction.
"Go upstairs and have a look." The dignified head of the family returned his gaze to the newspaper and said.
Bruce nodded to him, stood up and started to walk away. Thomas sighed, looked at Bruce and said, "Don't take the napkin to other places, it's very unhygienic."
"But I just tied it up."
Martha waved to Bruce, who sat back in his seat. Martha gently took off his napkin, folded it and put it on the table and said, "I'll tie it for you when you come back. Go ahead."
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Through Bruce's series of actions just now, Batman concluded that he had a master.
I'm afraid this guy's reputation as an outstanding graduate is quite high, Batman thought. In just two minutes, Martha and Thomas' attention was all drawn to Bruce.
Batman bets that Thomas, who was reading the newspaper, didn't read a word of it, and Martha, who was staring at the kitchen, wasn't even paying attention to the kitchen.
They didn't even realize they were watching Bruce for a few minutes just to see if he had tied the torn napkin.
The cultural ecology on the dining table is very interesting and can usually reflect the most traditional folk customs of a country and region.
When Batman was young, the Wayne family was a relatively traditional Catholic family. They inherited the living customs of the first batch of European immigrants, with orderly growth and clear rules.
Among this type of old aristocratic families, they value inheritance and education more, so of course the younger children receive the most attention.
If there are three generations living in the same household, the middle generation is the most easily ignored because the parents are busy with work, and having dinner together at the table is the only time they have free time to interact with the younger generations. Naturally, they need to know more about the children's education and life.
Condition.
People from this kind of family often develop such living habits, and after they turn from juniors to elders, they will also do this unconsciously and instinctively.
Both Martha and Thomas came from old aristocratic families, and such living habits were engraved in their genes, and they did so instinctively at first.
Martha asked Tim to go upstairs and call the other two children. In essence, she was paying more attention to the children. Thomas was also concerned about Dick's homework.
Theoretically, after caring for the youngest child, it would be the turn of the three older Robins, but Bruce succeeded in attracting the attention of Thomas and Martha by tying his napkin.
Batman has long observed that the napkin is tied with the most common slip knot. Any normal person with two hands can easily pull the knot apart with only two fingers. Bruce stretched his arms and twirled around, baring his teeth and claws for 20
multiple seconds.
And you just pick it off, and you have to tie it again after picking it, and based on his knotting movements, those who know it think he is tying a slipknot, and those who don't know think he is building the Great Wall on the back of his neck.
Batman knew that this was essentially a deliberate use of regressive behavior in exchange for a parent's instinctive response to infants and young children.
The instinct to help, care for and rescue cubs is engraved in human genes. This is the most important guarantee for human reproduction. Therefore, as long as certain conditions are triggered, all human attention will be attracted.
Bruce's actions seemed very childish. He was sitting at the dinner table but not sitting properly. He reached out to play with the napkin, took it off and tied it again. It was essentially a child-like cry to attract the attention of adults and to keep him firmly.
He locked everyone's eyes on himself.
Thomas asked him to go upstairs and take off his napkin, and his response seemed unreasonable. Just putting something on is not a reason why he can't take it off. Even if it is a reason, the adult's answer is "This
It’s a lot of trouble”, or “it won’t get dirty”.
Bruce's expression is more emotional and only emphasizes "what I did." Self-centered expression is also common in children. Their understanding of the world is not clear enough and they do not understand the intricate structure of interpersonal relationships, which leads to
They will only emphasize their feelings.
Strongly emotional expressions are more noticeable because the human empathic organ operates before rational thinking.
Even though he understood the principle, Batman still didn't understand why Bruce was doing this.
Batman knew that Bruce, Thomas and Martha could not be regarded as reunited after a long absence, because they had lived in Bruce's universe for a long time and had plenty of time to experience family affection.
But here Bruce is making unreasonable noises and attracting attention, and Batman doesn't even know who he's targeting with his sniper.
"And you're going to sit there until Alfred brings the food." Thomas pointed the finger at Batman again.
Batman paused, then pulled out the chair and sat down, and then he realized that he had put himself in an extremely embarrassing situation.
The three Robins were sitting there talking in low voices. Batman heard them talking about "Sherlock Holmes". They didn't have much time just now. They only read a short paragraph at the beginning of "A Study in Scarlet", which is Dr. Watson.
I went to rent an apartment and met a strange roommate.
They were discussing whether the young doctor was Sherlock Holmes, and Batman had already read the rest of the story, so he knew of course it was.
But he can't discuss this topic with the Robins now, because Thomas is also there, and Batman doesn't want Thomas to know that he is watching "Sherlock Holmes" at all, because for Thomas, detective is not a good career.
If you spend your free time watching another world's greatest detective after you have already practiced it yourself and been called the world's greatest detective, Batman will want to give yourself a diagnosis of mental illness.
Batman knew what Thomas was reading in the Gotham Pier Evening News. The front page said that the airport at Gotham Sky Island was under construction. This was a good pre-dinner topic, and probably just enough to talk about until dinner started.
So Batman said: "I heard on the news that Gotham will have its own new airport in about six months."
The Robins' attention was indeed attracted. Red Robin said: "Really? The kind of airport used to park spaceships?"
"I heard it is." Yeyi also answered: "With the airport, we can communicate with the ground normally, and we can deliver goods or send people off."
"Then are we going back to the east coast?" Red Hood asked.
"Of course, there is still Gotham." Thomas said: "We can't give up our home on the ground. It will be a better new city."
"And if some people take three hours to really care about the construction of Sky Island, we won't have to wait six months."
Faced with Thomas's death gaze, Batman turned his face away silently. This is why he is so idle now but does not enter the laboratory, because if he does not help Gotham build an airport, but he takes out a large amount of money from the laboratory
After piling up bat equipment, he would have to face Thomas's eyes like this every day.
And he didn't help Gotham build an airport because he wasn't sure whether it was a good thing to let Thomas and Martha build a new Gotham. If the air transportation channel was opened so quickly, the two of them would join forces to eat up other investment groups.
Two pure.
Seeing Batman's silence, Thomas withdrew his gaze, shook the newspaper, blocked his sight with the newspaper and said, "Turn your elbows outward."
Batman opened his mouth, he actually wanted to refute.
Because he recently discovered that a large amount of money from Wayne Group was flowing to Mexico, he really didn't dare to think about what Thomas wanted to do in being so eager to develop Xincheng real estate to make money.
Until this is clear, Batman will never let Thomas make more money, so he would rather hide in the manor and watch "Sherlock Holmes" than go to the laboratory to contribute to the construction of Gotham Airport.
Batman chose to continue pretending to be dead.
This trick has worked well in the past. Neither Martha nor Thomas are very controlling parents. They are relatively open-minded and respect their children's wishes. As long as what they do is not too outrageous, they will not interfere too much, let alone
I will get to the bottom of it.
But as soon as Batman turned off the microphone, Bruce rushed over with three children. Damian was also out of school, and four children of about the same age sat neatly across from Batman.
"Then let's go there on Friday afternoon." Bruce looked over at Dick and looked at Jason and said, "We have to regain our place. We can't let them be so arrogant. Who do they think they are, the boss of Mulberry Street?"
"Of course they are not!" Jason raised his voice and said, "It's not that I look down on them. If the referee hadn't blown the black whistle, Bick and I would have made them look good!"
"Then let's say it." Bruce turned to look at Thomas and said, "Dad, I won't go to the laboratory on Friday. I'm going to play football with Jason to avenge their game last week.
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Thomas shook his head helplessly and said: "It's just a friendly match, don't take it too seriously."
"You don't even know how bad that referee is." Bruce knocked on the table with his hand and said: "He didn't call the opponent offside twice. Jason and his team didn't even lift their feet. His whistle was loud.
, we will always receive a yellow card if a conflict is determined. This time at home, I have to keep an eye on the referee..."
Thomas snorted slightly, shook the newspaper again and said, "Go ahead, who would count on you?"
His eyes fell on Batman again.
"And you're going to sit here and not help your mother and Alfred, or even tie your napkin, huh?"
