The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

The morning in Wayne Manor was as quiet and peaceful as ever.

Click, click, click.

Miss Elsa, please don't bite the garden fence while I'm watering. It will get your hair wet.

Afu, my dad sent someone to deliver the Arctic sweet shrimp that just came off the dock. Which layer should I put in the freezer?

Don't put it away yet, let me eat two first.

Hey! Jason, you can't get up so early in the morning and eat ice!

No, I won't eat. I want to go to the garden to see Ah Fu.

Master Dick, please take Miss Elsa away and help her wipe her hair. If you can't find the hair tie, ask Harley to look for it in the second compartment of the dresser drawer in Ms. Selena's room.

Come on, she decided not to be in her room. I saw her sneaking over the balcony last night. I bet the two of them were sleeping soundly.

You actually have the nerve to tell them, Harley Quinzel, you slipped from the roof last night, why did you land on the balcony of my room? I was almost scared to death!

I was giving you a surprise. I prepared a gift for you to celebrate your victory in the football match. If you don't want it, just forget it.

What good gift can you prepare? Is it another scare box?

Oh, do you know that there is a new craft market and fabric market on Green Street? There is also a food street. There are twelve shops in it that I have invested in. Four of them are being renovated. I plan to share them with you. Family, if you don’t want it, I will contact the decoration team.”

What? You actually opened a store there?

Is it the most popular Gongguan Market? Are you serious? The rent there is so expensive, where did you get the money?

Have you forgotten that she is a rich woman? The street where you take cello lessons belongs to her.

God, so we're going to have a store? How are we going to open it? What should we sell?

Ding dong! Ding dong!

The children who were chattering among themselves stopped in unison and looked at the gate of the manor with some doubts.

Afu, does anyone have an appointment to visit?! Jason stretched his neck and turned his head and shouted towards the garden behind.

No, no, gentlemen, don't go near the door yet. I'll go over and have a look.

Alfred maintained his usual vigilance and asked the children to stay away from the door. He did not receive a visit appointment from anyone, and James and Mayor Roy, who were always in a hurry, did not usually come so early.

After opening the door, Alfred was very surprised because standing outside the door was Schiller.

Good morning, Professor. Alfred did not accuse Schiller of not making an appointment, because the professor usually valued appointments more than anyone else and would never visit unexpectedly. If he did not do this, it meant that it must be very serious. urgent.

Mr. Wayne is still sleeping. Do you need me to wake him up? Alfred closed the door and asked. The children were also incredibly quiet. They were obviously thinking about the same thing as Alfred. Could there be another murder? Has the case been filed? Or something unexpected happened at the music festival? They were starting to get nervous.

But Schiller just sighed and said, Alfred, are you really not considering replacing the Wayne Manor telephone line with a more sensitive satellite signal phone?

Alfred was stunned. He turned to look at the old phone that had been placed in the living room. He looked at Schiller again. Schiller shook his head and said, I made about three calls yesterday, in the morning and at noon. , at night, but I couldn’t get through once, so I could only visit rashly.”

Oh my God. Alfred sighed and immediately went to check the phone line. The children followed him noisily, turning to look at Schiller as they walked forward.

Isn't the telephone wire bitten by Elsa? Dick scratched his head and said, Yesterday I saw her playing under the big tree.

I didn't. Aisha was able to speak, and she retorted: I was catching earthworms. Who can't tell the difference between earthworms and telephone wires?

Maybe it's your teeth. I don't think it's controlled by your brain, at least not very well.

Dick is not usually so venomous, they all know it, but yesterday when they were sunbathing by the pond in the garden, Dick's chair collapsed and there were Elsa's teeth marks on one of his legs - this thing was about to become Wayne Manor. It’s marked, there are few pieces of furniture that don’t have it on it.

That's really too old. Elsa sighed and said, Although I may have bitten it, it's definitely not my fault that it collapsed.

They followed Alfred all the way to the garden to check the buried telephone wires. There were few buildings in the manor area and they were not dense. There were usually no backup telephone lines. When Alfred saw a piece of charred land, He knew it was struck by lightning again.

He looked up at the lightning rod again, only to find that the lightning rod on the roof had long fallen over. Everyone's eyes fell on Harley. Harley shook her head, pointed to the roof and said, I came down from that way, no. Might hit a lightning rod.”

The children took a ladder and climbed up to the roof, and finally Jason found a sparrow feather next to the collapsed and damaged lightning rod.

I don't know how big of a scarecrow we need to put in to get rid of this thing. Jason held the feather in one hand and the ladder in the other, and jumped down the last two steps.

Everyone came closer, including Schiller and Alfred, and then Schiller discovered that the feather on Jason's hand was almost longer than his arm.

I'm really sorry, Professor, that I didn't notice this series of accidents in time. It was never my intention not to answer the phone.

Schiller stood at the entrance of the porch, looked at it, and said, Actually, has Bruce ever told you that he plans to expand and renovate Wayne Manor?

Alfred paused and then said: Yes, everyone who comes here will compliment the decoration style here, but if they stay for one night, they will find that this is actually just the best.

This manor is too old. Although it has experienced an initial relocation, it can still be regarded as one of the earliest buildings in Gotham. There are probably only one building built at the same time as it that has been well preserved so far. Gotham Cathedral.”

“Dependent on Wayne funding the renovation of the cathedral.”

Yes, Daniel told me that it absolutely depends on this. Strong sunlight is a great test for the exterior walls of Gotham buildings. If it hadn't been for the previous renovation, I'm afraid we would have seen the horrific scene of angels shedding their skin.

Are you going to fix the house? Tim raised a hand and said, It should have been done a long time ago. In fact, after I accidentally said that my closet door would squeak, my mother worried about it every day. I was crushed to death by it.”

Dick also had something to say. He shook his head pretending to be profound and said: Although a lot of strange things have happened to me, the strangest thing recently is that the cover of my homework book always sticks to the table. , I later discovered that the primer on the solid wood table had begun to peel off.”

What do you think of this, Afu? Schiller asked.

Alfred pondered for a moment and then replied: Maybe proper repairs are necessary, but what I'm not sure about is the expansion of this part. We don't have any more land.

Alfred's words are naturally metaphorical. Now the South District where Wayne Manor is located is already an extremely mature wealthy area, and there is no land available for expansion anywhere.

The renovation of the manor is also a big trouble. Most of the things here are protected by the cultural heritage protection law, especially the entire house, which means that they can only make slight adjustments, such as replacing the furniture and walls inside, but not the outside. Walls and structures cannot be moved.

But the biggest problem with Wayne Manor is that the structure of the house is not reasonable enough. If the building layout cannot be adjusted, I am afraid it will eventually return to its original appearance.

So instead of spending a lot of energy on renovations, they might as well just buy a new manor so that they can have newer, larger and more convenient facilities.

I don't think the existing manor in Gotham is enough to meet the needs of the Wayne family. Alfred took a breath, and the cold air of the autumn morning entered his lungs, making him sigh a little comfortably. : “We looked at the villa appraisal map but couldn’t find any manor that met the requirements of the Wayne family.”

Of course we need a lot of things, because we have a lot of family members. Alfred didn't show any distress when he said this, only couldn't be more proud, Master and Madam, I mean Thomas and Mary Sha, the two of them will come back to live eventually, and the host and hostess cannot be careless about their daily lives.

Of course there are Bruce and Selina. This is more critical and determines whether Master Bruce can show his love nest to Selina. To be honest, I think this house is not decent enough in front of Miss Selina.

It's a little too old-fashioned and old-fashioned, and it's likely to give this woman the impression that the Wayne family is old-fashioned, strict, and inflexible, which is not a good impression.

How about buying a piece of land? Schiller suggested. He said: The area is large enough, the scenery is good enough, and then we bring over the engineering team of the Gotham Renovation Project. They have accumulated a wealth of experience, and they must be able to build a building. A satisfactory enough estate.”

Alfred nodded, obviously agreeing with Schiller's proposal. Schiller pondered for a moment and then said: Alfred, I have no intention of offending. This is also your freedom, but how long have you been without it? On vacation?

I don't need this. Alfred shook his head and said, I never thought those good days would come back again. Now I have so many children, and I have to take care of each of them.

But they also make you feel nervous and exhausted. Taking care of children is not an easy job. Their ages and families are all different, and the difficulty is unimaginable.

Yes, sometimes I am a little hesitant. In fact, I should have discovered the phone line that was damaged by lightning, but I have a lot of things to deal with, including arranging for the engineering team to come in, install the water slide, and clean the swimming pool for the children to play. My son, I cleaned the sandpit, washed my bathing suit, and I didn’t have time to water the plants until this morning.”

Perhaps you can introduce a team of professional butlers to your owner, which can greatly improve efficiency and allow you to spend more time with the children.

As a result, Schiller heard Alfred sigh, If so, would I not hire him? Professor Schiller, you should know best that all the graduates in the past 20 years are like your butler Merkel.

Schiller fell silent.

By the way, Professor, what are you doing here?

My housekeeper Merkel thinks the festival is interesting, but I don't plan to attend, so I'm going to give him a period of leave, and he said this needs to be approved by the introducer.

Schiller and Alfred looked at each other and sighed in unison.