Chapter 2565: Whistling Down (Twenty-Three)

Chapter 2539: Xiao Xiao Down (Twenty-three)

Take Jason's Curly Tail Gang as an example. There were two children who were about the same age as him at the time. Now one works in a car repair shop, and the other went to another city and should also work in a convenience store.

Of the two girls who are only slightly younger than him, one went to an amusement park as a performer, and the other ran a breakfast cart business with a friend.

There was one who was much younger than him and had no ability to take care of herself when he was still the leader of the children. Now she is in elementary school in the East District and lives in the home of the child who works in the car repair shop.

The rest of the people give this child a sum of money every month to cover the child's living and school expenses. Because Jason's conditions are relatively affluent, he gives the most.

The other children's gangs are basically the same model. Some of them are all able to work, some have one or two left in school, and the others work to earn money to support them.

The emergence of the Kids' Gang 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 on the streets had management omissions, so the wildly growing children spontaneously organized themselves to survive in the cracks of the rules.

With the sharp decline in the number of orphans, it is conceivable that this unique organizational form that appeared in a unique era will completely disappear in the long river of history soon and will never appear again.

But now Jason does face a problem. The child in the repair shop who was responsible for raising the child was laid off. During the job search, he had to rent a smaller house. The child who was still in elementary school had no place to live, so he went to his sister who worked in the amusement park.

But the girl who worked in the amusement park was not doing well. Although she was not laid off, her salary was reduced. Moreover, because everyone had no money, there were fewer people going to the amusement park and no tips could be collected, so life was also stretched.

The income of the other children has dropped. Everyone has no money and is unwilling to consume. No one in all walks of life can make money, so there is less money to raise this child.

Jason had already put all his pocket money into it, and even put in part of the savings he had earned from doing business at the music festival, but it still only allowed them to barely maintain their lives at the original level.

After all, Jason was still studying, and although he was a day student, he had to spend a lot of money at school, such as occasionally treating guests to snacks, buying everyone water when they were tired of playing basketball, and going to club activities after school. All of these cost money.

Under Thomas's arrangement, all the Robins did not go to ordinary schools, but to formal elite private middle schools. In such schools, you can't buy cheap food for treating guests to food and drinks, and the cost of maintaining social life is not low.

Dick didn't have any extra expenses except occasionally buying something for his parents to send over, not to mention Tim, who was a young master himself, and his mother and aunt gave him pocket money every day, fearing that he would be bullied at school.

Jason was the worst off among them, because he had a big family to support, and he didn't want to ask others for money, let alone ask Bruce for money, so he decided to work by himself.

He was familiar with part-time jobs, but Dick and Tim had never done it before. They were curious and wanted to work with Jason.

So they had been looking for a part-time job that would allow the three of them to work together and earn money. Alfred was not optimistic about this.

The old butler was not as naive as the children. In the current social situation, all walks of life were under great pressure because consumption had shrunk sharply and all industries were laying off employees. It was difficult to find a part-time job.

Dick and Tim were still complete novices, and they were basically young masters who had never done any housework. The kind of store that would recruit part-time workers needed skilled workers who could work right away. They had no time or cost to train novices.

What's more, the three of them wanted to work together, which obviously meant that they didn't take working to make money seriously. It would be fine if Jason did it alone, but with three people together, he would have to take care of two novices, and he couldn't concentrate on his work. It was really hopeless to make money.

But otherwise, why is it said that Batman's choice? Are people who can be selected by Bruce unlucky? Just as the Robins were worrying about what to do, Schiller called.

After explaining the situation to them, the Robins were very excited and ran to the hospital as quickly as possible. After expressing their concern mixed with ridicule to Constantine, they began to discuss how to run a moving company.

The three excited teenagers gathered together and could make a lot of noise. The nurse came several times, and finally Schiller spoke to them to quiet down a little.

Zatanna couldn't stand their noise, followed Schiller out of the ward, and said, "Anyway, my ability is similar to that of Raven. I'd better follow Waylon and let Raven go with them. After all, they are the same age."

Schiller could also understand Zatanna's desire not to take care of children. Miss Magician has never been so patient. If the Robins continued to quarrel like this, Zatanna would be tied up by a sarcasm magic sooner or later.

In contrast, Raven's personality is very problematic. She has suppressed her emotions for too long. If those suppressed emotions are not channeled, they will explode with energy sooner or later.

When it comes to how to vent emotions and how to restore a normal personality, Schiller has always advocated that people of the same age play together, and not pin any hopes and emotions on others.

Waylon had no objection to this arrangement. He was very loyal. When he learned that Jason was helping his companions to support his previous child, he generously offered to rent the car to them, charging only 15% of their earnings per day, and no payment if they did not earn any money.

Raven didn't know who they were, but she didn't really care. The only thing she was interested in now was making money, because if she saved enough money, she could go shopping. She was very yearning for the dazzling commodity street, which was a scene she could not see in Azeroth.

After Schiller left, the Robins discussed a lot, including the running time of the vehicle, maintenance methods, the order of moving, and which route was more efficient in each area, until the patient Constantine couldn't stand their noise, and then he drove them all out.

Schiller and Raven drove back to the new house together. It was obvious that Raven was hesitant to speak along the way. It seemed that he wanted to ask who the three strange boys were, but he didn't know how to start.

"They are Bruce Wayne's adopted sons... They used to be his assistants, but now he doesn't need assistants, so they are all in school."

"Going to school? Do you mean learning knowledge from a teacher?"

"Yes." Schiller turned the steering wheel and said, "But it's not like you think that one teacher leads one student, but many people sit together to learn from one teacher."

"Are you a teacher too?"

"Yes, I'm a university teacher."

"How many students do you have?"

"About a few hundred in total." Schiller said, "But there are only ten students who have taken my class, including graduate students and doctoral students."

Raven opened her mouth in surprise. The teacher-student relationship she saw in Azeroth was an apprenticeship system, and a teacher would not have more than three students at most. It was hard for her to imagine how a teacher could teach so many students.

Schiller paused, then said: "Maybe you can go to school and learn some knowledge of modern society, at least you should know some common sense of mathematics and physics, and then maybe I can teach you some common sense of psychology."

Raven fell into thinking. She was a little curious about the schools in modern society, mainly if she was going to work with the three boys next, it would not be good if she didn't understand all the topics they talked about.

But subconsciously, she was still resisting these, because she felt that she would lose control, and she didn't think she would use any knowledge of mathematics and physics, she was a magician.

After returning to the new house, Raven kept thinking about these things until she fell asleep, and finally didn't say that she wanted to go to school, but unfortunately she learned a lesson the next day.

The next day happened to be a day off. Early in the morning, the four of them met in front of the moving company with great enthusiasm. Jason received a long list of orders from Killer Croc and prepared to show 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. After arriving 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, and they went to the supermarket next to buy other things.

Raven was waiting, and the gas station employee came over and said that the gas had been filled up, and the car behind was still waiting, so they asked them to pay the bill and drive the car out.

Raven can't drive, but she knows how to get the car out. She directly moved the car away with telekinesis and paid the money to the gas station employee.

Soon, several people came back and found that the car was not in its original position. They ran to the parking space next to it and found the car and Raven. Jason found something wrong as soon as he got in the driver's seat. The fuel gauge showed that the fuel was not full.

After asking Raven, Jason slapped his forehead and said, "This is a trick used by gas stations to deceive novice drivers. If you don't fill up the gas, they will say that there is an urgent car behind you, and ask you to pay first and fill up later. If you go to them, they will say that the employee is not theirs and they are not responsible for the car leaving the gas station."

Raven also knew that she had caused trouble. In fact, she didn't even understand the operating principle of the car at all, and didn't know what the relationship between oil and the car's ability to run was. Anyway, she watched when several people asked her to watch, and she took the car away when the employees asked her to take the car away. She didn't know how to judge right from wrong.

Jason sighed, pointed to the car's oil gauge and said, "This is the oil gauge. Here you can see whether the oil is full. I guess they found out that you can't drive and look unfamiliar, so they lied to you and said it was full."

"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 stepped forward and said, "It's okay, we'll know next time. At least we filled up half a tank of gas, so we didn't lose too much. They also know that we are not easy to mess with, so they don't dare to go too far."

"If we go back to them now, even if we can get those few dollars back, our plan will be delayed. It's better to run two more orders to earn more money. What do you think?"

Although Jason was a little angry, he knew that he couldn't blame Raven. Gotham was a special city that was hard for outsiders to understand. It was also their fault that they were too excited and rushed to the convenience store without leaving anyone to watch.

"It's okay, get in the car first, you are the main force of our move." Jason said, "Even if we want to get back the place, we have to finish the work first, let's go."