Take Jason's Capricorn Gang as an example. There were two children about the same age as him at the time. Now one works in a car repair shop and the other has gone to another city and probably works in a convenience store.
Two girls who were only slightly younger than him, one went to work as a performer at an amusement park, and the other started a breakfast cart business with a friend.
There is one who is much younger than him. When he was the king of children, there was one who had no ability to take care of himself. Now he is studying in elementary school in the East District and lives in the home of the child who works in a car repair shop.
The remaining people will give the child a sum of money every month to cover the child's living and schooling expenses. Because Jason's conditions are relatively well-off, he gives the most.
Other children's gangs basically follow this model. Some are all working, some have one or two left in school, and others work part-time to earn money to support them.
The emergence of the Children's Gang organization itself was to fill the gap in social rules, because at that time there were too many orphans abandoned on the streets, and the gangs, as the ruling class of the streets, had management oversights, so the children who grew up wildly organized themselves spontaneously.
Survive in the cracks of rules.
With the number of orphans declining sharply, it is conceivable that this unique organizational form that appeared in a unique era will completely disappear in the long history of history soon, and will never appear again.
But now Jason is indeed facing a problem. The kid who was responsible for raising children in the car repair shop was laid off. While he was looking for a job, he had to rent a smaller house. The child who was still in elementary school had no place to live, so he went to
I went to my sister who works at an amusement park.
But the girl who works at the amusement park is also having a hard time. Although she has not been laid off, her salary has been reduced. And because everyone has no money, people who go to the amusement park can't receive tips without it, so their life is very tight.
The income of the other children has dropped. Everyone has no money, is unwilling to spend, and cannot make money in all walks of life, so there is less money for raising this child.
Jason has put all his pocket money into it, and even put part of the savings he earned from doing business at music festivals into it, but it can only keep their lives at the original level.
After all, Jason is still studying. Although he is a day student, there are many places to spend money in school. Occasionally, he will treat guests to snacks, buy water for everyone when he is tired from playing, and go to club activities after school, all of which cost money.
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Under Thomas's arrangement, all Robins attended not ordinary schools, but serious elite private middle schools. In this kind of school, you can't buy cheap things when you study in such a school, treat guests to eat and drink, and the expenses required to maintain a social life are also low.
Low.
Apart from occasionally buying things to send to his parents, Dick didn't have any extra expenses, not to mention Tim. He was a young man himself, and his mother and aunt gave him pocket money every day for fear of him.
Being bullied at school.
Jason was in the worst financial situation among them because he had a large family to support and was unwilling to ask others to borrow money, let alone ask Bruce for money, so he decided to work on his own.
He was familiar with part-time work, but neither Dick nor Tim had ever done it before. They were very curious, so they wanted to join Jason.
So they have been looking for a part-time job project that allows the three of them to work together and make money. Alfred is not optimistic about this.
The old housekeeper is not as naive as the children. In the current social situation, all walks of life are under great pressure. Because consumption has shrunk sharply and all industries are laying off employees, it is difficult to find part-time jobs.
Dick and Tim are still completely newbies, and they are basically young men who have nothing to do with anything. Stores that can recruit part-time workers need skilled workers who can work as soon as they get started. They don't have the time or cost to train newbies.
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What's more, these three people still want to work together. It's obvious that they don't take working to make money seriously. It would be better for Jason to do it by himself. With three people together, he has to be responsible for raising two newbies, and he can't concentrate on his work. Really
There is no hope of making money.
But otherwise they are Batman's first choice, are the people selected by Bruce unlucky? The Robins were just worried about which line of work they should do, when Schiller called.
After explaining the situation to them, the Robins were very excited and ran to the hospital as fast as possible. After expressing some concern mixed with ridicule to Constantine, they began to discuss how to run the moving company.
The three excited teenagers were making noise through the roof. The nurse came several times, but it was Schiller who finally calmed them down.
Zatanna couldn't bear the noise, so she followed Schiller out of the ward and said: "Anyway, Raven and I have similar abilities, so I'd better follow Waylon and let Raven go with them. Anyway,
They are peers."
Schiller could also understand Zatanna's desire not to take care of a child. Miss Magic has never been that patient. If the Robins continue to argue like this, Zatanna will be bound by an irony spell sooner or later.
In contrast, Raven's character is very problematic. She suppresses her emotions for too long. If those suppressed emotions are not released, sooner or later they will explode with energy.
When it comes to how to channel emotions and how to return to normal personality, Schiller has always advocated playing with peers and not pinning any hopes and emotions on other people.
Waylon had no objection to this arrangement. He was very loyal. When he learned that Jason wanted to support his former gang members, he generously offered to rent the car to them and only charge 15% of the money they earned every day.
, if you don’t make any money, you don’t have to pay.
Raven doesn't know who they are, but she doesn't actually care. The only thing she's interested in right now is making money, because if she saves enough money, she can go shopping. She yearns for the dazzling shopping malls.
That was a sight she couldn't see in Azeroth.
After Schiller left, the Robins discussed a lot, including the running time of the vehicles, maintenance methods, the order of moving, and which route in each district was more efficient, until the patient Constantine was disturbed by their noise.
When he couldn't help it, he kicked them all out.
Schiller and Raven drove back to the new house together. It was obvious that Raven was hesitant to speak all the way. It seemed that he wanted to ask who the three strange boys were, but he didn't know how to ask.
"They are Bruce Wayne's adopted sons... They used to be his assistants, but now he doesn't need assistants, so they are all going to school."
"Going to school? Does it mean learning knowledge from a teacher?"
"Yes." Schiller turned the steering wheel and said, "But it's not one teacher leading one student like you think, but many people sitting together to learn from one teacher."
"Are you a teacher too?"
"Yes, I am a university teacher."
"How many students do you have?"
"About a few hundred in total," Schiller said, "but they are just current students who have taken my class. The total number of graduate students and doctoral students is exactly ten."
Raven opened her mouth in surprise. The teacher-student relationship she saw in Azeroth was an apprenticeship system. A teacher could not have more than three students at most. It was hard for her to imagine how a teacher could teach such a person.
Many students.
Schiller paused his hand, and then said: "Perhaps you can go to school and learn some knowledge about modern society. At least you must understand the common sense of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and then maybe I can teach you some common sense of psychology."
Raven fell into thinking. She was a little curious about schools in modern society, mainly because if she was going to work with those three boys next, it wouldn't be good if she didn't understand all the topics they talked about.
But subconsciously, she was still resisting this because she felt that she would lose control, and she didn't think that she would use any knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry. She was a magician.
After returning to the new house, Raven kept thinking about this until she fell asleep. In the end, she didn't say that she wanted to go to school. Unfortunately, she learned her lesson the next day.
The next day happened to be a rest day. Early in the morning, the four of them met at the door of the moving company in high spirits. Jason received a long list of orders from Killer Croc, preparing to show off his skills today.
However, the car ran out of gas after several trips yesterday. They planned to fill up a tank of gas first, and then buy some spare gas to put in the car. When they arrived at the gas station, they stopped the car, calculated the amount of gas, and started to refuel.
The three boys asked Raven to wait beside the car while they went to the supermarket nearby to buy other things.
As Raven waited, the gas station employee came over and said that the gas had been filled and the car behind was still waiting. He asked them to pay the bill and drive out.
Raven couldn't drive, but she knew how to get the car out. She moved the car directly with her mind and paid the gas station employee.
Soon a few people came back and found that the car was not where it was. They ran to the parking space next to it and found the car and the Raven. As soon as Jason got into the driver's seat, he noticed something was wrong. The fuel gauge showed that the fuel was not full.
After asking Raven for a while, Jason slapped his forehead and said, "This is a common trick used by gas stations. It's designed to fool novice drivers. If they don't fill up the tank, they'll say there's an urgent car behind them and ask you to pay first and wait."
Furthermore, if you go to them, they will say that the employee is not one of theirs and they are not responsible for the car driving away from the gas station."
Raven also knew that she had gotten into trouble. In fact, she didn’t even understand the operating principle of a car, and she didn’t know much about the relationship between oil and the ability of a car to run. Anyway, she just watched when several people told her to, and the employee asked her to
She took the car away as soon as it was taken away, not knowing how to judge right from wrong.
Jason sighed, pointed to the car's fuel gauge and said, "Here's the fuel gauge. You can see whether the fuel is full or not. They probably found out you couldn't drive and looked strange, so they lied to you."
Said it was full."
"Then what should we do now? Can we go back to find them?" Raven was a little angry, and the power in her body surged with her emotions.
Tim sensed something was wrong, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "It's okay. I'll find out next time. At least I added half a tank of gas and didn't lose too much. They also know that we're not easy to mess with, so they don't dare to go too far."
"Now we go back to them. Even if we can get those few dollars back, our plan will be delayed. We might as well run two more orders to earn more money, what do you think?"
Although Jason was a little angry, he also knew that it was not easy to blame the Ravens. Gotham was a very special city and it was difficult for outsiders to understand it. It was also his fault that they were too excited and rushed to the convenience store without leaving anyone behind.
Look at this.
"It's okay, let's get in the car first. You are the main force in our moving." Jason said, "Even if we want to find the place, we have to finish the work first. Let's go."