Chapter 117 Chapter 117 [VIP]
The Special Children's Care Fund helped Damon's family solve the school registration and subsequent expenses problems, but they still had to submit the registration information themselves.
While the clown was looking through the documents, Megan sat cross-legged beside him, playing. Then her birth certificate came into her hands. She flipped it over and over. There wasn't a lot of information on it, but her eyes stopped at one item. She nudged her father with her head, "Dad, birthday."
Her father didn't even turn his head, but asked in an exaggerated and strange tone: "What's wrong, my child? Do you want to celebrate your birthday?" After asking, he realized what Megan meant and looked at her in surprise.
Megan nodded under his not-so-wonderful, yet pressured gaze, but then shook her head. Curiosity crossed her young face. "How are you going to celebrate your birthday?"
The clown stared at her for a while before he put on his usual hideous smile, "You ask me for help? Megan, I never celebrate that thing, and you still want to get it from me?" It seemed like a fantasy, but Megan always dared to think and do. There was no one in the world more daring and presumptuous than her.
He didn't say whether he agreed or not, simply skipping the topic. His eyes gradually became thoughtful. "I guess who provoked you to do this. He's a bad boy, and you're following his example?"
What can you do if your child becomes rebellious? You can only blame the person who caused her to become bad.
The Joker simply ignored Megan and continued looking for the information she needed for admission. He didn't feel like running errands anymore; he could easily assign such trivial matters to Bob. Before sending him back in and taking the information and leaving, he said to his somewhat useful subordinate, "You know what Megan needs. Bring it with you when you come back."
This kind of task that tests subjective ability is not difficult for Bob. You know, he has been quick-witted for a long time and can always think of ways to solve problems. In the one or two years that he has been taking care of Megan, he has never overstepped his bounds and offended anyone, which proves that he is a talented person. Although the Joker Gang does not want such a waste, it has to be said that his ability to work as a male security guard is not a problem at all.
Bob has long been Megan's domestic worker. After all, his salary and Megan's daily expenses are not paid by the Joker Gang, but from his other accounts... Problems are most visible in the details. Moreover, if the gang's financial expenses are not paid through a virtual bank account, the flow of funds and recent actions can be quickly discovered. They often use cash transactions.
In the afternoon after the clown left, Bob brought back the extra copies of the materials that were no longer needed. They didn't have to be destroyed, as they could be used in the future. After putting the things away, he pointed out the locations of the campus layout he brought back to Megan, such as the teaching building, activity room, gymnasium, library, performance hall, playground, etc. He also found out which teaching building each grade occupied and how many floors it had.
As for more detailed school information? Megan would definitely not be interested in it. The reason I gave her this little information was because she had poor adaptability to the environment, but as long as she had a little understanding, she wouldn't be too anxious.
All the clown did was for Megan, but if he told the child about his efforts and hard work, the most he could get was her affection. She only put honey on her lips and showed affection and dependence in her actions, but her naughty temper could not be changed. It was precisely because he knew her well enough that the clown sometimes didn't bother to play with her and didn't have any unrealistic expectations and fantasies about her.
——He hasn't found the fun yet, but he has already become the laughing stock on the stage. No one knows about the play, nor will they be amused and applaud him. His partner is even more irresponsible. She can always make up her own twisted logic no matter what the plot is. He also has to be careful that she will jump off the stage. If she makes an unexpected curtain call, his loss will be huge.
The family drama is a huge trap, with poor people tied up on both ends!
In the days after the Joker left, Megan continued to go to Richard Long's place to exercise on her own, and in between, Bob began to prepare the supplies she needed for school.
Megan was not willing to go to the street to choose the styles of school bags, notebooks and pens. In fact, all these things were available in the two-story building. But if she was going to school, Bob thought that new tools should be prepared for her. Fortunately, her preferences had already been exposed. She liked cute, exquisite, bright, beautiful and weird things.
Bob's job was to take care of Megan's daily chores, and he did it in a thorough and considerate manner. However, before purchasing those things, he still asked Megan, "Miss, do you want to bring new school supplies to school?"
As he hesitated to ask the question, Megan was like when she was a child——
She sat in front of the railing in the corridor on the second floor, stretched her hands and feet through the gaps in the railings and let them hang casually downstairs, with her forehead resting between the two railings. She knew that it would leave a mark on herself, so she moved from time to time, pressing the indented area against a flat surface to try to flatten it.
Megan heard what he said, but she didn't understand. She looked up and asked, "New?" Why new? She still had a lot of new pens and notebooks that she hadn't used and had never taken out.
She herself hadn't thought about these questions, because she had never been to school and didn't know what to do, so when Bob proposed it, she was curious to know why.
Bob sat next to her, but he didn't hang his arms and legs like her. He just hugged his knees and tried to curl up, actually to avoid looking down at Megan. He was lost in thought, and said "hmm" and asked hesitantly, "Because of the sense of ceremony?"
The sense of ritual is a very strange thing. Its meaning should not be easy to understand, but Megan seems to have some understanding of it, just like the criminals in Arkham always have propaganda and preaching, and they will form gangs when they are imprisoned in prison, such as the coin of Two-Face, and the ventriloquist still has "Socks" after losing Scarface. Her father also likes to find a sense of ritual.
Megan blinked, her eyes widening. "Is there a ceremony for matriculation? Why?"
She didn't understand the question, just like some families don't really care about their children's entrance ceremony. Ultimately, its 'importance' is relative, not absolute. But Bob had his own ideas. "The school also has an assembly when the new students arrive. There will be many people giving speeches and performances on stage to welcome the new students."
"It may be just a small thing, but it's not completely unworthy of celebration... It's a blessing to celebrate and have something worth celebrating."
Megan seemed to understand and asked, "Then what will you celebrate?"
Bob was silent for a moment, then he touched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "My salary has arrived." He always acted timidly in front of the clown, and occasionally had some weird ideas, but he really loved his work and his considerable salary.
Arthur's financial difficulties and his yearning for life and expectations for the future are all disguised, but Bob is the real bottom-level person in Gotham. He always acts numb and has no big ambitions. Even if he goes out to work, he can only be in a state of not starving to death but not living well. The only unusual experience he has had in the past few decades is that he infiltrated the Joker Gang, but this is not a good thing. He might be used as cannon fodder and deprived of his life at any time.
Initially, he joined the gang not for any ambition, but out of curiosity... Those people wore clown masks, but they seemed to have obtained some kind of credentials, and they showed off their power in this city and this world. Why was that?
Bob didn't get an answer from the gang, and he didn't care much about this issue. He had a good job as a male bodyguard.
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With more than a week left before the start of the school term, Richard said to her, "Meghan, you should take this opportunity to understand other people's social styles. You can't enter school unprepared." If she is not mentally prepared, she might be scared.
School is an environment that is noisier and more lively than the streets. Students live together in a large area. They have distinct personalities, different temperaments and preferences. There are often conflicts and fights. School violence is also a problem that cannot be ignored. So how can Megan make friends and get used to getting along with them when she enters the school?
He sincerely introduced Megan to the schools he was familiar with and tried to teach her the principles of life, but he knew that even if Megan listened to him, it would be difficult for her to understand these things without personal experience, and Megan also had defects that could not be ignored.
She was too slow and too ignorant.
Richard never thought that one day he would worry about the clown's child being hurt because of her innocence and harmlessness, but Megan was exactly what she appeared to be. Even though she worked hard to exercise and become healthy, her physical fitness was still slightly worse than that of ordinary people. She couldn't hurt people with her fists and could not form an effective deterrent. She also didn't understand the ways of the world and stuck to her own small world in order to get her last breath, and that little space was not suitable to be broken again.
He wanted to teach the child a lot, but in the end he just said to her: Go outside and take a look.
He couldn't worry too much and should believe that life would have its own way out. Enough miracles had happened to this child, from her recovery from illness to her being raised by a clown and her tenacious survival, to her having the opportunity to go to school. Perhaps she would be lucky in the future.
Megan finished her afternoon meditation and was about to walk out of the club by herself. Before leaving, she raised a hand to Richard. They were good friends, and he undoubtedly understood and was familiar with what she meant. He casually bent down and high-fived her.
After the ceremony was completed, the child withdrew her hand and walked out excitedly. Half of her body was still clinging to the glass door, and she had to use all her hands and feet to push the door open. But this was no longer a problem for her. After going out, she ran towards the green belt, and then stood at the intersection. She chose a direction that she was not very familiar with.
The author has something to say:
Everyone knows that the Joker is a self-contradictory person, and his opinion is the least important ( )
The weather has just changed a little recently, and the familiar lymphadenitis has returned. My head hurts and I can't update on time. I apologize.
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