A retired magician raises a bucket daily

During this period of time, many and urgent things happened. Reed was either turning upside down day and night or looking for someone all night. After all the troublesome things were over, his schedule had not been adjusted. , and even evolved the Qi of getting up.

Reed fell asleep angrily last night. He called the publisher in the middle of the night to discuss the new book. The other party wanted him to hold a new book signing event. Reed didn't like those official occasions where he needed to show his face, so he even used magic to cover his face. He didn't want to be perfunctory about his appearance, so he refused on the spot, but the publisher begged hard, so he had no choice but to pull his face down in the end, and reluctantly agreed to a faceless newspaper interview.

Jason went out for a trip in the morning, and his subordinates told him that the people under him were disobedient and caused some trouble.So he put on the red hood to teach those little devils who dare to make trouble in this special period.

Although the sun is high in the sky, the weather in Gotham is the best in winter. It is not always raining and gloomy as before. Although it is still very cold, the sea breeze blows away the dark clouds and thins the sun. The temperature blows away.When Jason returned home at noon with a cold body, the room was still quiet, and it seemed the same as when he went out.

He lightly changed his coat, stepped on the cotton slippers and walked to the door of the room. The curtains inside were tightly closed, not letting in any light, blocking out all external disturbances, and the bed bulged— A small bag in which someone hid himself, as if growing on a bed.Jason glanced at the time, and it was already approaching the afternoon. Reed didn't ask Jason for a blood suck these days because he was worried about his health.

But it's not good to skip meals, right?Mr. Red Hood, who sleeps all year round and wakes up naturally, eats cigarettes and alcohol for three meals a day, leans against the bedroom door and thinks for a few seconds, then walks in to wake people up.

"It's time to wake up!" Jason pinched the corner of the quilt at the end and shook it, but the person on the bed seemed to be integrated with the quilt, and it was inseparable from it.Jason then went over and opened the curtains, and the dazzling afternoon sun instantly filled the entire room.

Reed buried his head in the quilt, "Woo - Jay, pull it up..."

He protested limply: "Vampires will melt when they see light!"

Jason looked at Reed with amused expression as he buried his head under the quilt like an ostrich, and kicked a few times with his two slender white legs exposed.

"Need I remind—have you slept fourteen hours?"

"I want to sleep until night." Someone who was dazed and staring argued hard.

"You haven't eaten yet," concluded the grim Mr. Red Hood, "get up and eat first."

"Hmph." The vampire reluctantly struggled out from under the entire blanket, staring fiercely at the person in front of him.

The sunlight poured in from the window, and even his hair was shining.

"Jason Todd!" The vampire squinted his eyes and said loudly, throwing himself on the red hood, only to be embraced by his older boyfriend, his nostrils were filled with the cold air outside and the familiar tobacco taste.

"You're finished!" The sleepy vampire sniffed at his neck, "Just now, you lost your breakfast."

"It's already noon, Lady." Red Hood said with a smile, and then touched Reed's forehead. "I guess I haven't lost my lunch yet, have I?"

"So you didn't cook?" Reed frowned, then stared at Jason with a disapproving look, "Yesterday you said you were going to cook!"

Jason, who suddenly remembered that he ate the last sandwich he had left in the morning, smiled awkwardly.

The vampire snorted again in dissatisfaction, "You are lucky, I bought more vegetables yesterday."

The two of them finally had lunch at [-]:[-] in the afternoon, and Reed, who was completely awake, was struggling with the meal while examining how he could allow the bad habit of staying up in bed to gradually grow and take root in his body.

Especially since he also has a boyfriend with a worse schedule.

"So you ate a sandwich in the morning and went out? And with so many wounds?!" Reed said to Jason, with an angry face: "Bruce Wayne taught you badly."

Jason wanted to say that his body was completely fine, hadn't the wound been healed a long time ago?Not all those bad habits were learned from Bruce, but after seeing Reid's expression, he still resolutely chose to push all the blame to the old bat, and echoed with righteous indignation: "Yes, that's right, they are all He taught it! I used to be obedient."

Another phone call in the afternoon, and the subordinate hurriedly reported the matter to Jason.Reed sat cross-legged on the sofa and wrote something. He had some ideas for the new book, while Jason sat next to him and read a book, impatiently dealing with the reports of his subordinates.

"I see." He heard the name of the black mask and guessed what happened. He and Roman only had a short cooperation, and the clown matter ended—the confrontation between them returned after all. The interests of the two sides conflicted greatly, and many of their business scopes overlapped, and they would always quarrel over trivial matters. Jason sighed, "I'll come here now."

He closed the book, and Reed looked up at him, "Going out again?"

"Well, something happened, I'll discuss it."

Reed spun up the pen, stood up, and said enthusiastically, "Shall I take you there? Isn't your car under repair?"

During the previous battle, Jason's motorcycle was parked outside the factory and was crushed by collapsed rocks, so he took it for repairs. He didn't have time to buy another car, so he used Reed's Land Rover when he went out in the morning.

"I'm driving myself..."

"I happen to be going shopping too," Reed looked at him with bright eyes, as if he was really happy about 'sending his wife to work', "Go, go."

I have even experienced going to nightclubs by bus. It sounds more high-end than that by my boyfriend, right?

The frightening gang leader gritted his teeth and agreed.

Jim Billek is one of the Red Hood's confidantes. He accidentally stole the wallet of a passing Red Hood when he was still in the slums and was hungry. He was caught and beaten by the other party. Later, the Red Hood asked him: Are you a Talented people, do you want to hang out with me?

In a daze, Jim emerged from the slum pool of mud that was actually called Crime Alley.He thought the red hood was like those criminals who kill, kidnap, take hostages, hold ransoms, do some underground business, buy and sell beautiful children, provide drugs... Jim-beginning-always Conscience and money were repeatedly entangled, and he even wanted to go to the police station to confess. After all, he was 17 years old, and the worst thing he had done was to steal the red hood's wallet and was beaten up. At that time, he was thrown into a cement bucket and his body sank into Gotham Bay.

But no.Red Hood is more than Jim expected.He was very young, but he seemed to have experienced many things, calm and reassuring, as if there was an old soul in that young body.No matter what you do, you always have to make plans and plans. He taught Jim a lot of things, let him go to school, taught him self-protection, how to use guns...Although he is young, he is in a certain way. In a sense, for Jim, he is already like a relative of his own.

There was a time when the red hood was very decadent, and he was either in the bar or in another bar every day. When Jim found him in the bar that was about to close, he was completely drunk, just like Jim remembered himself. The father who committed suicide by jumping off the building because of investment failure was like that before his death.

Jim heard from the other party that he wanted to clean up all the dark sides of Gotham.Red Hood says the city is rotten, festering from the bottom up, beyond repair, and must be cut and gouged to get rid of those things.He was dissatisfied with the Dark Knight inside and out, but sometimes, Jim would also see him staring at the news of Batman, as if it was the spiritual pillar for him to walk on this lonely road.

He's so much like Batman.Apart from the fact that the two of them had chosen different paths, it seemed to Jim that the same light shone from both souls.

Jim respected the Red Hood from the bottom of his heart, so when he stood by the Iceberg Club and waited for the Red Hood to come this afternoon, he was still full of anticipation.

Until the familiar Land Rover stopped by the side of the road, he wanted to greet him and help Red Hood get the car keys.However, Red Hood opened the door from the co-pilot's seat, holding his hood in the crook of his arm, with a rare and comfortable smile without any irony on his face.

Jim: What the hell I am.

It's a pity to see it, after all these years, the number of smiles he saw on the face of the red hood didn't even exceed two hands, and some of them still didn't know whether it was a mocking or a sneering kind.

"Will it be a problem?" Reed asked him. "Can you make it for dinner?"

"No, it will be resolved soon." Jason said, he has been fighting against the black mask for so long, and he has learned how to deal with the black mask effectively.

"Then I'll pick you up at night." Reed said to Jason, "Remember to send me a message."

Jason, who was blinded by the sugar of love, had already forgotten his initial refusal, and gladly accepted the proposal, and leaned over to give the other party a sticky farewell kiss.

"Old, boss..." Jim carefully followed Jason a few steps back.

"What?" Jason responded in a good mood, putting on the hood.

"...Black Mask has been waiting for a long time." Jim didn't dare to ask him what happened just now. Although Red Hood had been in a relationship before, he had never come out to feed the dog in such an open manner.

"Why, he said I wasted his time again?" Jason said lazily, "Then don't come, hurry up and get beaten? I wasted a lot of time by him too, okay?"

Jim wiped—on his forehead, fine, still the familiar Red Hood.

"He brought a man," Jim said softly, half a step behind, "Penguin is here too."

"..." Jason under the red hood narrowed his eyes slightly, "Oh, so he can still walk? I thought he had a stroke and couldn't get up in the hospital bed—— "

After entering the gate of the club, the environment inside was much brighter. Several people were sitting on luxurious red velvet chairs, waiting for him. The room was very quiet, and no one dared to speak. They obviously heard what Jason said just now.

"—Just like a clown." Jason slowly added the remaining half of the sentence, glanced at the people in the room, and walked towards the reserved place for him with his long legs. He took out the shiny pistol with the casing that had been maintained, put it on the table casually, and greeted him politely, "Everyone, long time no see, I thought you all knew that I am a person who will take revenge, why come here to give me beat?"

The twitchy and mocking tone made the two people in high positions twitch with veins in their foreheads, but it was difficult to respond to these words.

There is no one in Gotham who doesn't know about the clown, and those of them who have more resources in their hands certainly know more information.It is said that apart from Batman and Robin, Red Hood was also there at the scene. The police also found several unnamed corpses, whose deaths were tragic.Nei Ying at the police station told them that in the past few days, several foreigners claimed the body and said it was a companion who came to travel, and then there was no news.

But these are not important to them, what is important is the information that 'the red hood is also at the scene'.Both Penguin and Black Mask have guessed, it can't be that the Red Hood really got the Joker to that point, right?

After all, they all knew that there was a deep hatred between the Joker and the Red Hood.

Isn't this guy—Xiang Ye and Batman are on opposite sides, why are they united again now?The two murmured to each other in their hearts, they couldn't figure out which camp Jason was in for a while.

One of the purposes of their conversation here today is to understand the current position of the Red Hood. In case this person really cooperates with Batman, they will have a lot of trouble making money.This guy in front of him is a well-known anti-drug ambassador in the industry. So many years of drug sales that Batman has failed to break, the red hood—the upper position was directly eliminated by one-third—he didn’t—beat all of them to death with a stick. , only the sale of drugs to minors and those with families is strictly prohibited. —Once he finds out that someone has crossed the line, he will be merciless in his strikes. Although he can't beat anyone to death, there are many more semi-permanent VIP users in the hospital and people who go directly to prison for retirement.

"Why don't you talk anymore? You called me here in such a hurry just to see if I'm still alive?" Jason looked at the two of them, tapped his fingers impatiently on the surface of the metal gun, and issued a crisp urging: "Trust me I'm living a good life."

"Big Red, you and the clown..." Black Mask asked tentatively.

"Seriously?" Jason said with a different tone, "You all called me here because you wanted to hear gossip? When did the Iceberg Club become a tea party?"

Reed drove to a large shopping mall to buy some necessities for life. The house he lives in now is much closer to the shopping mall than the previous one. Shopping is no longer a luxury for a person like him who doesn't like to go out all the year round.The magician picked out a few books that seemed to be the type of books that Jason liked to read, and bought some jam and raw meat, reminding himself not to stay in bed anymore, and to completely change the bad habits of him and his boyfriend.

The shops had just finished refurbishment not long ago, and the poison ivy attack hadn’t passed long ago, but Gotham’s reconstruction workers have long been used to these things, and the commercial street has only re-tiled the floor and repaired some houses. Experience makes them start very quickly.Festive decorations are hung outside the shops, and as far as the eye can see, they are all red and green.

Only then did Reed remember that Christmas was approaching, and Gotham was about to snow.

As the evening approached, the sky darkened faster and faster, and the stars began to twinkle. Reed took a deep breath, and the white hot air could see its shape in the cold air. He rubbed his hands, thinking that it should be given to Jason. He bought a down jacket or something warm. He looked in the closet at home, but Jason didn't bring any clothes suitable for winter, but Gotham's winter is really cold.

He wandered into a clothing store, and when he came out, he had three or four big bags in his hand.

Finally experiencing the joy of shopping for women, Reed thought, Jason seemed to look good in anything.

When he finally came out of a flower shop, he received a text message from Jason. The other party was like a kid who secretly passed a note to his lover in class, complaining that they were so boring, and it would take another 10 minutes They may fight, and then they will slip away in the chaos.

Reed got in the car and drove to the Iceberg Club.

Jason crossed his arms and looked at the two people in front of him who were blushing. For some reason, these two people started arguing with each other out of nowhere.

There was a sound of the car horn outside, and Jason, who was so bored that he yawned countless times, suddenly lit up. He grabbed the gun and stood up.

"If you still want to quarrel, don't forget to pay for the booth before you leave." Jason said, his voice could not contain the joy, "I'm home, my boyfriend is here to pick me up, bye!"

Black Mask and Penguin: ...?

What's wrong with this guy? !