Did Ah Fu retire today? [Comprehensive British and American]

San Xiaozhi scratched his head in doubt, not knowing what the strange atmosphere in front of him represented.

Bruce coughed lightly, and lightly pushed Ah Fu away, looking a little shy, but quite happy.He didn't know why this strange emotion came from, but it didn't prevent him from deliberately keeping his face straight, making it look like there was no fluctuation in his heart.

Maintaining this feeling, he looked at the children solemnly: "The tea party is over, good boy, it's time to go to bed."

Jason was a little dissatisfied. He always felt that his desire to eat melons was not satisfied, and he didn't want to go to sleep.

He glanced at Bruce cautiously, and asked tentatively, "What about the bad boy?"

Bruce said cruelly: "Will be beaten up by an angry Batman, and then cry to sleep."

Jason: "..."

Ah Fu: "Pfft!"

The old butler couldn't hold back anymore. He glanced at Bruce, who was solemnly uttering childish threats, and then at Master Jason, who was full of despair and disbelief, and laughed out loud.

Bruce blinked slowly, and that chuckle seemed to turn on a switch, causing many images to flash before his eyes.

The old butler A Fu who always supports him, the good brother Tom who shares his heart, the shy little uncle Alfred in the photo frame, the young Alpha in the newspaper sketches, and the special agent Al in the night...

Countless identities appear intertwined, each one is like Ah Fu, each one is different, one by one, or shy, or flamboyant, or happy, or fierce, or well-behaved smiling faces pass by like a lantern, and finally stay at this moment , the housekeeper smiled happily.

"What are you looking at me for?" Ah Fu asked a little uncomfortably after his laughter stopped.

Bruce just felt disturbed in his thoughts, and for a moment he couldn't even explain what he was looking at.

So when Ah Fu asked him suspiciously, he was silent for a while, then suddenly changed the subject: "Let's think about how to do your funeral."

Afu: "???"

After driving all three children and a cat away to sleep, there are only two masters and servants left in the Bat Cave.

In order to convince Ah Fu and himself, Bruce deliberately emphasized his tone, and said affirmatively: "The clown took away the butler's body, and you are dead by default. If you show up in the manor tomorrow, he may guess what."

It is not easy to guess that Bruce is Batman and the Joker, and Afu has to admit this.

So here comes the question: "Will my identity as a butler be offline in the future? Can it never appear again?"

"I'm afraid so," Bruce said regretfully, "if it's necessary to hide the fact that you have different vests."

The master and servant looked at each other, and fell into a long silence.

……

In order to hide...mainly the clown's eyes and ears, Alfred had to turn into Tom, appear in Wayne Manor, and co-organize a funeral of his own with Bruce.

Everyone in the Bat family knows the inside story, but what the outside media said has been "beautified" to a certain extent.

It is said that the poor Mr. richest man was playing extreme games in the next state, when he suddenly received a call from his sons and learned the sad news of the death of the housekeeper.He was so sad that he immediately took a special plane and rushed back to Gotham just to preside over the funeral of this old housekeeper who was not a relative but a relative.

It is said that the butler left because of a heart attack, and he left very suddenly. At first, the children only found that the wake-up service from the butler in the morning was gone. They got up and got dressed strangely. When they were looking for someone, they accidentally saw it in the baking room. The old butler lay motionless on the ground, and there was even a large plate of cookies in the oven that hadn't been baked in time.

It is said that shortly before the butler's death, he found his lost illegitimate son, and now this son is in Wayne Manor, together with Bruce Wayne, to take care of the funeral for Butler Afu.

At the funeral, the pastor was on the stage to give a memorial service, Ah Fu stood under the stage in Tom's appearance, stretched out his finger without any trace, and poked Bruce's thigh next to him.

"What are you doing?" Bruce straightened his black suit and whispered without moving his lips.

Ah Fu also lowered his voice, and said hesitantly: "My housekeeper is already in his seventies, and I have an illegitimate child in his twenties, isn't it appropriate? Maybe I should pretend to be a grandson?"

Bruce glanced at him. "Trust me, no one cares."

Ah Fu closed his mouth in doubt, and soon after the mass was over, the funeral master of ceremonies appeared again. They bid farewell to the body in turn, and then offered a flower beside the empty coffin.

Say goodbye to the people who came to the funeral one by one, and then watch them leave, this incident is considered to be over.

The last visitor they sent off was the unremarkable little reporter, Clark Kent.

Although as a small reporter, he seems to have little friendship with Bruce, but as Superman, he has a very deep friendship with Batman.In addition, he was the person who pretended to be Bruce's blind date. Although almost no one knew about it except Thalia, Maroney and a Murdoch lawyer, this did not prevent him from feeling sad and regretful, Sincerely come to that kind old man, the last rite.

There is just one thing... He looked at Tom hesitantly, and tentatively said: "When Steward Ah Fu was young, he must have been in good health."

Ah Fu, who was named, raised his eyebrows and looked straight at Clark.

Clark coughed twice in embarrassment: "I mean, you look very young, are you Mr. Pennyworth's old man?"

He was a little skeptical about this, but he didn't know how to remind Bruce, but after thinking about it, his "neighbor" is the famous Batman, who is famous for his suspiciousness and desire for control, so he shouldn't be fooled by others , So Tom's identity, I'm afraid it has been checked a long time ago, there is no need for him to worry about it.

Thinking of this, Clark breathed a sigh of relief, and finally took a last look at Bruce and Tom, who seemed to be very close, and said goodbye and left.

Ah Fu finally retracted his gaze from staring at Clark, and turned to Bruce: "No one cares about my age?"

Bruce had to correct: "...no normal person would care about this."

That stupid big man is obviously not in this category.

……

After the funeral, everything seemed to return to normal.

Dick and Jason go to and from school normally, work hard on homework, work part-time as bat assistants, and do logistics in the bat cave, which is quite fulfilling.

Damian eats and sleeps normally, loses his temper and grabs toys, and occasionally walks the cat, which are the most meaningful things he does in a day.

Ling Xing usually ate small dried fish and basked in the sun, and was fined by Damian for a walk, and then scratched and cried a few thieves, hammered over a few salty pig hands, and bit the gangsters who abused cats and dogs until their faces were covered with blood. That's the whole routine of it.

And their father, Bruce, is also normal.He usually sleeps at work and goes to watch the night after get off work, except for some inexplicable loss of interest in being a cover girl, and facing the empty Wayne Manor, he suddenly starts to miss Ah Fu crazily.

Ah Fu is now using Tom's identity, so naturally he can't live in Wayne Manor all the time.In fact, shortly after the funeral, he returned to Arkham, where he was currently serving, and began to work seriously as a psychiatrist.

After doing the math, Bruce hasn't seen Ah Fu for nearly a week!

What a terrible thing is this?Bruce thought sullenly.

Gotham was fairly peaceful tonight. It was just past three o'clock in the morning, and there was no one to be seen on the road.Bruce asked Jason, the "child laborer" who was on duty tonight, to go to bed quickly, while he himself wandered the empty streets of Gotham, sighing uncontrollably.

Getting into the Batmobile, with his hands on the steering wheel, he hesitated for a few seconds between going home and continuing to patrol, and then his thoughts changed, and another idea suddenly came to him.

Since he had time, and he missed Ah Fu so much, why didn't he go directly to Arkham to find him?

As soon as this idea appeared, it took over his brain crazily.Almost within a few breaths, Bruce finalized the plan to divert to Arkham.

Naihe Island is not too close to the place where he watches the night, but this small obstacle can't smooth his thoughts at all.

Starting the Batmobile, Bruce increased the speed to the maximum, and after nearly four hours, he finally drove to Arkham.

Arkham in the early morning is shrouded in a thin layer of morning light, inexplicably like a veiled girl... Fat girl, yes, six floors above the ground, thousands of wards on each floor, let this building see It doesn't match up with "slender and slim".

Bruce took a deep breath, stepped out of the chariot timidly, and knocked on the door of the duty room.

Burrow, an old acquaintance, was on duty last night. He came out rubbing his sleepy eyes and said in surprise, "Batman? Why are you here? Did you catch the Joker?"

"Not yet." Hearing the familiar name, Bruce's face darkened for a moment, he pursed his lips, and whispered uncomfortably, "I'm here to find Tom."

Burrow picked his ears: "What did you say, didn't you hear clearly?"

Bruce: "... I'm looking for Tom!"

"Oh." Burrow scratched his head, "But the doctors don't go to work until nine o'clock, and it's only past seven o'clock now."

Bruce: "..."

Burrow didn't know what he said wrong, and the majestic Batman froze like an eggplant beaten by frost for a moment, so he pulled his hair and suggested, "Why don't you go to his office and wait? Soon."

Bruce rejected his proposal: "No, I'll wait at the door."

Burrow asked puzzled, "But why?"

Bruce didn't answer, he left the duty room silently, and walked to the other side of the gate alone.

As for why he has to wait here, who knows, maybe he just wants to see his Ah Fu at the first moment.

Because of this, at [-]:[-], Tom's Alfred, who packed up and rushed to work, picked up a pitiful big bat just outside the gate of Arkham.

He was leaning against the wall lonely, looking at him aggrievedly, with accusations all over his face.

Ah Fu: "...???"