Chapter 1527: Bat's Nest Farce (Part 2)
At first glance, Red Hood's words sounded fine, and it was a way for Damian to step down. However, the reason why Thomas, Martha, and Bruce all frowned at the same time was that they all found that the original Bat Family's socialization education was more lacking than they thought.
Damian's request for a seat from Nightwing was more like an all-round provocation to authority. First, Nightwing was older than him. Second, Nightwing was originally the leader of the outsider group. Third, Nightwing also took on more responsibility for taking care of others in this family than Damian, and sitting down early or late was the least important point.
This means that Damian and Red Hood were completely unaware of what was happening on the field, did not understand normal social rules, did not understand social codes, and could not even feel the emotions expressed by others.
I believe that many people will feel very frustrated when they meet the kind of person who makes demands without paying the price, expresses his emotions regardless of the occasion, and thinks that everyone should indulge him and follow his ideas.
Many times, this kind of person is not emitting malicious intent, but the lack of social education makes him not know how to find his position and influence others in the group in a rational way, so he can only output emotions, which looks like throwing a tantrum.
Damian actually thinks that he should sit closer to Thomas, because he thinks he is closer to Thomas, but he has no idea how to use this reason to impress others, so he can only ask blindly or find some lame reasons that sound ridiculous.
Nightwing had not stayed in the manor for a few days before, and it was Dick, who was younger, who was close to Aisha, not him, but Damian just found a reason that made no sense at all and said it without any psychological scruples, and even believed that this reason could impress the other party.
Social habits and thinking are gradually established in society, and Damian's performance means that he should not have explored it at all.
Finally, under the gaze of Thomas, Martha and Bruce, Damian still walked to the last seat, and during the whole meal, he just kept stabbing the leaves on the plate with a fork, with a dark face and no words.
He felt very aggrieved in his heart, not knowing why he had to be so far away from the person closest to him, and he could hardly see him. The way he vented this emotion was to find trouble with Nightwing after breakfast.
This series of actions seemed too much like a naughty child, but fortunately, Martha, who grew up in the Kane family, had similar confusions when she was young. Why did instinct conflict with rules, but she could only obey the rules? Why did her family clearly say they loved her, but never compromise on some things?
After Damian fought with Nightwing in the back garden and beat himself up, Martha sat on the steps in front of the door and called him over, hugged him and comforted him, and then asked him why he did it.
People are more likely to have emotional breakdowns when facing their mothers, because there is less confrontation between mother and child, and no one needs to resist the mother's love like resisting patriarchy, at least in front of Martha.
Damian only lasted about thirty seconds before he started to complain to Martha, but he still didn't realize what the problem was. He was still saying that Nightwing was unwilling to give him a seat, that Red Hood said he got up late but he got up early but was just entangled by Elsa, etc.
After Martha listened patiently, she began to explain to him bit by bit why he couldn't ask Nightwing to give him a seat in an imperative tone, why they had to sit according to the seating order instead of sitting randomly, and even why most social occasions in this society are actually an enlarged version of finding a seat.
In the next few days, Martha, Bruce and even Thomas were tirelessly dealing with the trivial frictions generated by these complex social relationships, and this group of ignorant lambs were also constantly hitting the wall and learning how to accept the good influence of others and abandon the bad, and how to use their status to influence others.
All Robins are very smart, without exception, and the special thing is that the members of the Bat Family are very good at learning in practice. After a few days, they began to understand the operating rules of Wayne Manor.
Damian finally learned that if he wanted to sit next to Thomas the next day, he had to first ask Thomas for permission, then go to Alfred to add a chair, and finally find a doll to put opposite Elsa to prevent her from biting the plate sadly.
And Nightwing finally learned to use his authority to restrain all the people he could exercise power over, instead of rushing to clean up the mess after they got into trouble, and then mess up his life.
But this is not the end. After exploring their personal positioning, they began to form groups, divided into different small groups according to age, familiarity, and activity time, and groups had to find their own positioning, and at the same time, various exchanges and frictions occurred.
In addition to the two sets of Robin, the representative group also formed Harley, Jason, Aisha and Damian, the group that was looking for Black Diamond before, and the first group that mixed the two Robins, as well as the two Dicks who went to ballet class together, the group that followed Bruce to learn anatomy questions, and the group of Nightwing, Dick, Red Hood, and Aisha who needed to go out for a ride every night.
They began to learn how to balance their status in a small group and use it to consolidate their position in the larger society, deal with the contradictions caused by the conflict between preferences and rules, and decide the degree to which they sacrifice their individuality for the group, so as to gain a clearer self-awareness and a more stable personality.
When Bruce said this, Gordon and Barbara looked at him. Gordon said, "Isn't this a good thing? This is a rare educational opportunity, and you don't even have to do anything."
Barbara also sighed and said, "Thank God, they can finally learn to be more mature. You don't know that when I was with them in the Batcave before, a small matter could cause a world war. Everyone was so childish. Sometimes I also complained that Batman should really pay more attention to them."
"But now it seems that it's useless for Batman to pay attention alone." Barbara pursed her lips and said, "Besides, he doesn't have much time to pay attention."
"If it's so smooth, why did you come here?" Gordon asked again.
Bruce sighed deeply again and said, "After they kept getting along, they finally realized that everyone in Wayne Manor was a community of interests, and they should unite to fight for status for this group."
"Isn't that great?"
"Then guess where they plan to fight for status?"
Gordon looked at Bruce with wide eyes and said, "Could it be the whole Gotham?"
"Congratulations, you got it right." Bruce stretched out his hand to cover his eyes and said, "All the children united and started to fight crime in Gotham."
Gordon opened his mouth, thought for a while and said, "Although I don't quite agree to let such young children wander around Gotham, their hearts are at least good. Who hasn't had dreams of fighting crime and upholding justice? Right? Batman?"
"You don't think they're going to fight the criminals?"
"Really?"
"They can fight by themselves, why do they need to unite?"
Looking at Gordon's puzzled expression, Bruce said helplessly: "They are not a team, but a gang. God knows what they have learned recently! They don't want to save Gotham, but want to dominate Gotham!"
Bruce put one hand on the table and began to count on his fingers: "One day, after Dick finished his ballet class, he didn't take the bus home, but ran home from the roof. On the way, he saw the new food and snack street and goods street near the Gotham train station."
"He originally took the other kids there to eat and drink, but Damian somehow asked the business secret of one of the stall owners. It turned out that The vendors learned in advance that Gotham was going to hold a grand music festival, and there would definitely be a lot of outsiders at that time. It would definitely be worth it to grab a stall near the train station in advance. "
"Damian immediately felt that he had found the capital to survive in the business world, so he urged Jason to rent a stall with him so that they could sell goods here. Jason thought that they should make money together, so he found the members of the original children's gang and asked them to buy some popular small commodities and sell them on the streets here. "
"But setting up a stall in Gotham must be approved by the gang. The gang there had never seen them before and thought they were here to cause trouble. A conflict broke out between the two sides, and as a result, Nightwing led several other older children to beat them all down. "
"At this time, Red Robin found that setting up a stall in person was not as profitable as sitting behind the scenes, so they replaced the original Ben's gang began to charge all stall owners a threshold fee, and then they found that the two gangs next door also had good footholds, which were particularly suitable for connecting to the area they controlled to form a large market. "
"I don't know what Red Hood was thinking. After the others figured out the headquarters of the two gangs, he threw Aisha into the opponent's arsenal and ate all their weapons. So the two gangs surrendered without a fight, and they took over the two largest areas near the train station that were suitable for setting up stalls. "
"And Damian didn't know how he learned the skills to clean up his name without a teacher. He asked Tim to write a letter to the Gotham City Government, claiming that they would carry out the "Gotham King Music Festival Cultural Exhibition" near the train station, and package the three streets and a square near the entire train station into a shopping street in the guise of a music and cultural exhibition. ”
“All of them played several roles and wrote letters to the city government. Some played the role of down-and-out artists who wanted to exhibit their paintings, some played the role of wandering musicians who wanted to perform in residence, some played the role of small vendors who were desperate to get a stall, and some played the role of peripheral product customizers who could ship in bulk. They performed a scene in which cultural activities were bound to win and stalls were in short supply. ”
"That idiot Roy really fell for it. It wasn't until he came to me and asked if Wayne Group wanted to invest in this cultural event that I realized the handwriting on the letter he brought was so familiar. All the hundreds of letters were written by these little bastards."
"In less than a week, they had already defrauded more than 20 million US dollars in investment, 80% of which was invested by Gotham's gangs."
"They drew more than 20 street scenes and cultural propaganda posters of Gotham, took more than 200 real-life photos, and built an official website to put them all up. After it was completed, it became a hit on the Internet within a week, with more than 400,000 views and more than 30,000 reservations. "
"The reporters' tickets for six East Coast TV stations have been booked, including Clark Kent. My stupid reporter friend also wants me to provide him with a tour suggestion in advance. Even Amazon Princess Diana expressed her desire to come and learn from the advanced tourism development experience, and asked me to organize a banquet so that she could meet Gotham's genius curator."
Gordon covered his eyes, and Bruce sighed again, then looked at Barbara's face and said.
"Now, Miss Gordon, you have a new task, that is, to get an extra 20 million US dollars in addition to the investment in the music festival, and find a way to organize this cultural display event-it is almost a wasteland now."
Barbara slapped her forehead.
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