Chapter 3629

"My God, Alfred, if it weren't for you, I really don't know what I would do!" Thomas hugged Alfred hard and then said, "This is indeed a good place, perfectly restoring the Wei En Manor not long after Bruce was born. But there is only an empty frame here, and there are too many things to be busy with."

Martha also walked down from upstairs and said: "There are no servants here, we have to do everything ourselves. I just picked out the clothes for the banquet, but remembered that the flowers on the banquet table haven't been taken care of yet. I hope the water vapor won't make my silk shirt wrinkle."

"Leave it to me, Madam," Alfred said with a smile.

"We originally contacted a few people to let them come early to help. But that group of little bastards hasn't been seen until now..."

"I'm here! Dad!" Bruce walked in from the main gate of the manor and said, "And I brought a huge piece of good news!"

Thomas and Martha both looked at him. Bruce shook his hand ostentatiously and said: "Look at what this is?"

Martha was dazzled by his shaking and didn't see any change in his hand. She had to walk up and grab Bruce's arm, only then seeing the silver ring on his middle finger.

"Jesus, no way, right?" Martha dragged a tone somewhat exaggeratedly and said, "If you dare to say this is a Christmas joke, I will plant you in the flowerpot of the Christmas tree!"

"Of course not, Mom. Selina agreed to my proposal! We are engaged! Do you know where I came from? The vacation house in Canada! We spent most of the day in a world for two, it was great!"

Thomas was also quite interested and leaned over, saying: "Where did you propose? Wei En Manor?"

"I wasn't that old-fashioned. I specially went to the theater where she works and even bribed her colleagues in advance..."

Martha patted him on the shoulder encouragingly, then glared at Thomas again and said: "You wouldn't want to know where your father proposed at the beginning. My God, that was simply the biggest farce of the century..."

Thomas touched his nose. His gaze stayed on the ring on Bruce's hand and then said: "Why did you order such a ring? This looks like silver. Even if it's an engagement ring, it should be platinum, right?"

"I think this is quite good," Bruce shook his hand again and then said, "However, I secretly kept two diamonds with the most perfect quality and cut, to be inlaid on our wedding rings. Selina will definitely like it."

"Do you plan to have children? Have you talked to Aisha?" Martha went straight to the point.

"Of course. We asked her before we set off for Canada, and she said she had no opinion. I see she cares more about how to eat up the candy we gave her for Christmas within three days under Alfred's nose."

"Don't say that, sometimes children say they don't mind, appearing as if they don't understand anything, but in fact, they have their own ideas, just don't want to tell you. I think you should observe for a while longer." Thomas urged.

"If it's a boy, you absolutely cannot call him Little Thomas," Martha pulled Bruce's arm and said, "Thomas represents the eldest son, which might make Aisha unhappy. Perhaps you can call him Bruce II..."

"My God, this sounds like an Englishman's name," Bruce wrinkled his nose in disgust and then said, "And I am sure we won't have a boy. A prophet once said we would give birth to a cute girl. On the day she is born, the Goddess Hera will become her godmother and bestow blessings upon her..."

"Talking crazy again." Martha shook her head helplessly, but seemed to be used to it, patted his back and said, "Now go sprinkle some water on the petals and put the bottle on the table. Go."

Next to come in was Bay-Bat. He took off his coat, rubbed his hands and said: "It's also the first time I've known it would snow here. Mom, it's summer on our side."

Martha walked up and hugged him, then pressed her face against his, and said: "Your primary task now is to go roast by the fire, and then shave your beard. Do you know? I just learned the news of one of you getting engaged, but I didn't see a ring on your hand..."

Bay-Bat looked helplessly at Bruce, who was walking toward the garden. He knew it would be like this. Yesterday Bruce went crazy on the Batman channel all night, and even most of the Batmen who paid the most attention to collecting information blocked him.

When Bruce said he would be the first to come today, they knew he had bad intentions. The first to bear the brunt were those Batmen without Damian. If they didn't even have a girlfriend, it was even worse.

Bay-Bat felt he had been as early as possible, but didn't expect to be a step late. But it was only a step late. Bay-Bat slipped away to the fireplace and prepared to watch other people's jokes while roasting by the fire.

Unfortunately, the next to come was the Batman from the Wei En Family Adventure world. He also walked up to hug Martha and shook the bag in his hand and said: "Look at what I brought?"

Martha took the bag and opened it, finding it was a pair of socks. Adventure Batman smiled and said: "Every Christmas you put gifts into socks. When you weren't there, the gifts would arrive as promised, but I know, the Santa Clauses of those years were either surnamed Kent or surnamed Prince—it's time to let the Wei En family's Santa Claus return."

Martha immediately laughed and said: "Yes, but what you might not know is that most of the time the Wei En family's Santa Claus is surnamed Pennyworth. We only are responsible for preparing gifts."

"Alfred? Has he come?"

"Yes, he's in the garden. Go say hello to him quickly. I guarantee his agility now is as nimble as when he climbed through the window into your room to put gifts."

Then it was the slightly silent main universe Batman. He hugged Martha and Thomas separately and gave them each a gift. The one for Martha was a beautiful crystal necklace, and the one for Thomas was a bottle of red wine.

The quiet and harmonious atmosphere ended with the roar of a car engine and the roar of a Tyrannosaurus rex appearing at the manor gate at the same time.

Martha couldn't care about talking more with her own son and rushed to the main gate, shouting: "Wait! You two don't come in yet!"

She wouldn't have been able to shout a second later, and the Bat-Rex's nose would have broken through the gate of Wei En Manor. Behind him followed another Tyrannosaurus rex—that was one of David's personalities, a female Tyrannosaurus rex capable of manipulating time—they clearly also had good news to announce.

"Okay, okay. My only dinosaur baby son," Martha patted his nose helplessly and said, "I'll let Alfred take you to the garden, okay? No matter how you try, you can't get in through the front door. When we built Wei En Manor, we didn't consider accommodating a Tyrannosaurus rex!"

Thomas went to greet the Bat-Monster Car, praised his new Christmas-themed car paint for being very beautiful, and then let him go around to the garden from the other side.

Thomas walked back to the manor's front hall and looked helplessly at Martha, saying: "Dear, are you sure those two can help?"

"Of course. At least they can act as a scaffold. Alfred is so old, letting him move a three-meter ladder and climb up himself is inhumane!" Martha walked quickly to the back garden and handed the arrangement of the banquet hall to Thomas.

These Batmen who were invited in advance didn't help much. Bruce just helped put down a vase, Bay-Bat went to the washroom to organize his personal image after roasting by the fire, and Adventure Batman visited Wei En Manor. The most useful one was actually the Bat-Rex, who used his height to help Alfred prune fallen leaves in high places.

The vast majority of the work was completed by Alfred. Fortunately, in the Battleworld, most things were exchanged for points, and after exchanging, they could appear in the designated position directly, without cumbersome transportation work. This made everything not so difficult.

The entire Wei En Manor was cleaned up and looked brand new, or it could be said to be repaired as old, completely returning to the era when Thomas and Martha were just married. In the center of the living room was a huge Christmas tree, surrounded by piles of gift boxes. On the doors, windows, and walls, there were Christmas wreaths everywhere. Decorations of deer and Santa Claus appeared on every table.

Batmen arrived one after another. No one wore that black Batman suit; the vast majority wore formal attire, their hair trimmed meticulously, and some also wore Christmas sweaters in a unique way. Each one greeted and hugged Thomas and Martha.

Although everything looked calm and warm, when a room was stuffed with dozens of Batmen, and they shared a pair of parents, things would never proceed as smoothly as imagined.

Thomas and Martha sat in the main seats. Thomas just picked up his wine glass and wanted to give a speech, when Martha narrowed her eyes and said: "Wait. There should be minors among you, right? Minors, put down your wine glasses!"

No Batman moved; they all thought they were adults, but this clearly wasn't the truth. So Martha started calling names one by one: "You. Yes, don't look at how strong you are, I can judge from your eyes that you definitely haven't reached adulthood. Go change his wine for juice!"

"And you. You definitely haven't reached adulthood either. I am your mother, don't try to fool me... and, this car. Although you reached adulthood as Batman, I'm afraid you've only been a car for a few years, right? What do you want to do? Pour alcohol into your fuel tank? Drunk driving is illegal! Put down the glass!"

Forced by Martha's prestige, the named Batmen had to put down their wine glasses resentfully. The adult Batmen, however, held their wine glasses even higher. Although most Batmen had entered middle age, being able to drink in front of their parents as legal adults was still something worth being proud of.

"Okay," Thomas cleared his throat and said, "Thomas and I invited you here, not to talk about any big principles. We just felt that it wouldn't be good to spend Christmas alone with any one of you, so we spent it together. Thank God, Happy Christmas!"

"Happy Christmas!" the Batmen said, raising their glasses.

(End of this chapter)