The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 825

"Yes, I was born here, probably more than 50 years ago? I can't remember, my parents threw me in a trash can, and I picked it up for a tracker who worked at the dock."

"My luck is not bad, isn't it? My father is very capable and can support me. Although he was beaten to death later, at least I grew up to adulthood smoothly..."

In the ward, a slightly obese gang leader leaned against the wall, smoking a cigar, and recalled: "I think you are quite young, so you have not experienced that era. It was really magnificent at that time. I used the word right?"

"Yes, you all know that I'm a newcomer. Not only did I just come to the hospital, I just got a gun and a whip," Bruce said very cryptically, but everyone else smiled and said, "Then you He is quite experienced, but there are quite a few newcomers who have offended everyone here just after killing their boss."

"I know very well that many friends have multiple paths." Bruce also lit a cigar, took a puff with wrinkled eyes, and said, "Actually, I'm also worried about how to go next."

"Why don't you worry, life is not easy now?" said a younger gang boss on the other side: "It's much better than ten years ago. I didn't catch up with the good times. I was shot twice to grab the pier. It still hurts..."

"You're lucky." The fat boss said, "When I first came to Gotham, no one told you how to behave. The whole city was in such a mess that it was impossible to see."

"Oh, that's right." He spoke again, looked at Bruce and asked, "Boy, did you take the position after killing your elders? Or did you snatch it from someone else?"

"I don't have any elders." Bruce shrugged and said, "I just don't like the boss in my area. I lied that I was a businessman from other places and killed him with a gun. Fortunately, the guy himself It sucks, and the wages of the people under it are deducted. Everyone has tolerated him for a long time, and I picked it up."

The fat boss raised his eyebrows and said, "You are really capable and dare to shoot directly, but that's okay, you are so young, if you kill your father or uncle, you will be in trouble later."

"What do you mean?" Bruce asked.

The fat boss waved his hand and said: "If you have no foundation and are all on your own, then everyone will be more tolerant to you, but if you are brought into the social circle by your father or uncle, then as long as you are a little bit out of line, everyone will be more tolerant." Everyone will think you are unreliable and will not do business with you."

Bruce frowned and said, "Why do I have no foundation, but will be more tolerant to me?"

The younger boss on the other side said: "Don't you know this yet? If you haven't learned the rules from your elders, then everyone will treat you as a country bumpkin. It's okay to be ugly once in a while. I also came here like this."

"However, if you are a child from a gangster family, you learn the rules from your parents every day, watch what they do every day, and you still make mistakes, doesn't that mean you are stupid?"

Bruce didn't think there was such a difference. He said, "Then if I make a fool of myself, wouldn't they laugh at me as well?"

"It doesn't matter, I was laughed at before." The younger boss lit a cigar and said, "As long as you don't make those fundamental mistakes, it's okay to be laughed at twice."

"After all, you don't know it because you haven't learned it, but if you have learned it and haven't learned it after so many years, how can people do business with you? Who would learn the most basic etiquette for so many years and haven't learned it yet?" Learning to do business with mental retardation?"

Bruce nodded, and the fat boss said, "Speaking of this, I just think of my daughter, thank God, she doesn't have a mind for free love, but don't mention it to me, let alone look at the son of a rich businessman." , those playboys don't have a good thing..."

The fat boss took a puff of his cigar and said, "I wanted to send her to a missionary middle school, but my wife told me that she wouldn't learn anything there, and she wouldn't even reply to invitations, and she would be laughed at by others." .”

"Church high school? It should be pretty good, right?" Bruce said, "Especially the most famous girls' school in the city."

The fat boss waved his hand disdainfully and said, "That's right, but you have to see what they teach. They taught my daughter to read the Bible, be a tailor, arrange flowers, and draw pictures. But the problem is, she will marry into the Lawrence family in the future." go."

"She will become the wife of Lawrence Jr., the mistress of the Lawrence family, what's the use of knowing these things? Match Malone...is that your name?"

"Let me ask you, if you want to visit the Lawrence family for something, you write a greeting card and send it to their mailbox. At this time, should you expect their reply?"

Bruce nodded, "Of course."

"But if the mistress of their family is a stupid girl who doesn't even know who you are or what level you are, how can you expect him to give you a proper reply?"

The fat boss exhaled smoke and said, "The Lawrence family is much stronger than you. If a small person like you wants to visit their house, of course they should not respond too enthusiastically, otherwise they will not be able to deal with families of the same level."

"However, if the wording of agreement is written too indifferently, you will mistake it for rejection. If you want to grasp this speed, in addition to the above wording, you should also look at the handwriting, the texture of the letter, and the quality of the reply. Time, these are not well grasped, isn't it offending people?"

Bruce thought about it, and felt that it was true, not to mention the gangsters with many rules, even in the gatherings of the upper class in Gotham, there are all kinds of troublesome rules.

Men can do a little better, those ladies and ladies can have hundreds of attentions to a string of necklaces and a headgear.

Who wears the new style, who wears the old style, who sent the fan to whom, which direction the hat is worn in, all of them are particular, who got engaged recently, who had a baby recently, what changes happened in which family , can all be seen from the details of basic necessities of life.

The reason why Bruce didn't feel difficult was because Bruce Wayne's disguise was a rotten playboy. He could lose his temper at the banquet at will, and no one could do anything to him. He could just work out. After finishing his work, he dressed in sportswear and came to the magnificent mansion. The waiter and the manager also had to smile at him.

As for any invitations, he didn’t even look at them, and Alfred wouldn’t tell him. He would only tell him something like “the certain family invited you over, and you can see if you want to come over.” If Bruce said No, Alfred will not ask him how to write the invitation.

To put it simply, Bruce's parents, housekeeper and his own disguised identity have avoided these messy secret rules for him. No one in Gotham dared to offend him, so what rules should he obey?
But at this moment, he put himself in his shoes and thought about it, if without the status of the Wayne family, without the diligent old housekeeper, and without the disguised identity of Bruce Wayne, he would be an ordinary rich businessman, how would he want to Integrating into the circle of Gotham will take painstaking efforts.

Not to mention how to write greeting cards and invitations?He even takes care of who the sender is, what clothes he wears, and what posture he uses when walking. Even if Batman has 48 hours a day, he still has to be tired and vomit blood.

Now, Bruce understands what Schiller was asking with that question. At the beginning, he asked Schiller to experience life in the slums with him, but Schiller asked him, "Do you really feel that living in the slums is better than living in the upper class?" is it hard?"

What Schiller is actually saying is that in the slums, your relatives, friends, brothers and colleagues are your help, but in the upper class, all these people are your troubles.

If there is a little misstep, this group of people will not say anything on the surface, but they will definitely gossip behind their backs. If it spreads, it will affect their reputation and business will be difficult.

For people like Bruce with high IQ and low EQ, it is actually better to live in the slums. As long as he can turn the corner, his high IQ can bring him a lot of primitive accumulation of capital, so he can live in the slums here. Live comfortably in this environment.

But if it comes to those open and secret fights among the upper class, you come and go, Bruce's perception of emotions and the expression of his own emotions are not enough for him to capture this undercurrent and understand everyone's psychology, so as to achieve the ultimate goal. it is good.

Batman is a mental patient. The slums don't care if you are mentally ill or not, but the upper class is different. If you are not high enough, but you do something very special, you will never be able to integrate into their circle.

Bruce was thinking like this, the young gangster said: "My son is only three years old this year, and I plan to wait until he is five years old, and I will take him to meet his two uncles, both of whom are engaged in shipping. A businessman, and, when he is in primary school, I want him to go to a community primary school..."

At this time, the fat boss clicked his lips and said, "Don't do it, Doyle. For the sake of our previous cooperation, I remind you not to let him go to school. It is for his own good."

The gang boss named Doyle frowned in confusion and said, "Why? In the neighborhood where I live, many people send their children to school."

"That's because you insist on buying a house in the South District, with those rich businessmen. Of course they let their children go to school, but you can't do that."

"Why?" Doyle asked.

The fat boss shook his head and said, "Think about it, he played with the children of those rich men in the community school, so can he still do business with them when he grows up?"

"You have to hire a tutor for your child, preferably an old man of the same generation as the godfather, to teach him how to abide by etiquette and rules, and then you have to ask your wife to take him to some salons and afternoon tea parties, and talk to him It's the most decent way to make out with the aunts and finally, play with their children."

The fat boss sighed and said, "What's even more frightening is that if your children grow up with those rich businessmen's children and want to go to middle school and college like them, what if they go to other places? Your family The business is gone?"

"In Gotham, let alone four years, even four months, dozens of families have to beat out the dog's brains. After he has been away for so long, after he comes back, he is completely like a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered. He doesn't understand, he doesn't know anything, he can't see the situation clearly, and he doesn't know anyone, how do you let him survive in Gotham?"

Doyle thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Indeed, I said that I can't listen to Alina. She insisted that her children go to college. In my opinion, students from Gotham University are fine. Let them If you join the gangsters for two days, I'm afraid you will lose your life."

The fat boss waved his hand holding the cigar and said, "I've said since you got married that you didn't choose a good partner. Your wife is a high-achieving student who graduated from Cambridge, and that poem written in cursive script was written in Twelve Families. Can't find a second one."

"But, that's what it's like to marry a woman from another place, crying every day to educate, educate, study, study..."

"But you don't look where this is. You read a lot, and you can't even hold a gun when you come back. In the end, you can only hold your books to see God."

(End of this chapter)