Chapter 115: Persuasion

John quickly sped up his hand, plugged in the various cables of the video recorder, and hurriedly put the video tape in. His intention was obvious, that is, to play the video as soon as possible, so as to end the topic that embarrassed him as soon as possible.

"Okay, let's watch ......!" John put the tape away, then moved a chair and sat on the edge of the bed, accompanying Audrey Hepburn.

A few seconds later, a gray TV screen was filled with shaky footage.

The image, which has no title or music, begins with a young black boy carrying a rifle on his back, which was shot by NBC reporters in Ethiopia, Africa, near Somalia.

As soon as the camera turned, the TV scene changed to a small village, and the children in the village were so hungry that they could not walk, because their legs were badly deformed, so they could only lie in bed and wait for death.

Seeing this, John secretly looked at Audrey Hepburn beside him, only to see Audrey Hepburn looking at the picture on TV, her eyebrows wrinkled tightly, and there were some faint tears in her eyes.

Then look down, the camera turns, and there is an open space on the TV, which was filmed by NBC reporters in Sudan, the picture shows a hungry little girl, kneeling on the ground, and not far behind the little girl stands three huge vultures, are greedily staring at the little girl on the ground dying, they are waiting for the little girl to take her last breath, and then turn her into a "good meal" .......

"Alright...... Don't let it go!" Audrey Hepburn put her hand on her forehead, she couldn't stand the images on TV, especially when she saw three vultures, waiting for the living people to die, so that they could be divided and eaten.

"John, get out of here! I want to be alone!" Audrey Hepburn waved her hand.

John heard Audrey Hepburn's words, nodded, turned off the video, and then walked out of the ward, what he had to do now was to let Audrey Hepburn choose for herself.

"Why are so many children suffering in this world?"

John heard Audrey Hepburn's words and stopped and stood by the door. "As long as there is desire in the heart, this kind of thing will always exist. ”

After John finished speaking, he closed the door and walked out of the hospital room.

When he left the ward, the crowd immediately surrounded John. "How's John?"

"It worked, now all we have to do is wait and wait for Grandma Audrey to convince herself. John replied.

"How long will that take?" asked Mrs. Morgan.

John shook his head. "I don't know about this, let's go to the conference room and wait!"

Hearing John's words, the crowd nodded, and headed for the conference room.

An hour .......

Two hours .......

Three hours .......

Everyone was in the conference room, waiting anxiously until ten o'clock in the evening, when everyone was about to go back to the hotel to rest, the door of the conference room was pushed open by Audrey Hepburn's nurse.

"Ms. Hepburn wants to meet Mr. JK!"

"Okay! John nodded at the nurse.

"It seems that Aunt Hepburn has already thought about it and is going to announce the results. Mrs. Morgan looked at the crowd.

When the crowd heard Mrs. Morgan's words, their hearts suddenly sanctured, and if John's solution did not work, then they really couldn't find any other good way.

"Don't worry, trust Grandma Audrey. John looked at the crowd. "I'll go first. ”

It wasn't long before John came to the ward alone, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw Audrey Hepburn leaning on the bed haggardly, apparently struggling deeply inside.

"John, why are you so cruel to me?" asked Audrey Hepburn, looking at John in front of her. If John hadn't shown her those images, she wouldn't have been so entangled, and she would have chosen to leave this world satisfactorily instead of surviving mutilated.

"Because angels are still needed in the world!"

John pulled up a chair and sat on the edge of the bed. In fact, he didn't understand why Audrey Hepburn was left behind, he could choose to do nothing, and then quietly wait for the angel to return to heaven, and finally send a bouquet of fresh white roses to her grave.

But he still made a move in the end, because of the many years of getting along, the unrelated kinship between the two, or because of his admiration for this legendary woman, or for other reasons.......

John didn't know, and he didn't want to think deeply, what he had to do was to do whatever he wanted, and as for the "why", sometimes it really didn't matter.

"Grandma Audrey, do you know why I went to Switzerland to look for you?" asked John, looking at Audrey Hepburn, who was silent.

Audrey Hepburn replied, "Didn't you come to see me?"

"Watching you is just one of the reasons, but more importantly, I want to invite you to play a supporting role in my new movie. This film is a public welfare film, and all proceeds will be donated to set up a public welfare foundation to help those who are disadvantaged. ”

John paused and continued: "You've been told since I was a kid that helping others is a joyful thing!

"I'm glad you can remember my words, but unfortunately now that I'm lying in a hospital bed, there's no way to participate in your movie. Audrey Hepburn said disappointedly.

"Yes, it's a pity!" John leaned back in his chair and said to himself: "Originally, I also wanted that after the establishment of the public welfare foundation, I would be responsible for donating money, and you would be responsible for management, and I would donate 20% of the annual income to the foundation, and strive to create a $50 billion super public welfare foundation in 30 years, and then I would hand over this money to Morgan Stanley to operate, with at least 10% of the annual income, so I don't know how many vulnerable children can be helped with such a sum of money." ”

John paused deliberately, then let out a long sigh. "But...... Now I'm not in the mood to get it, so I decided to give up. ”

"Why don't you get it?" said Audrey Hepburn sat up from the bed. The $50 billion public welfare foundation has at least 10% of the income every year, and even if only 5% of the income is used to help the disadvantaged, countless people will benefit from it, so she heard that John didn't do it, and her heart was suddenly anxious.

Why did she always instill in John the idea of being helpful since she was a child? Didn't she just want John to make some contribution to public welfare when he grew up? Now when she saw that John was going to give up, she was naturally anxious.

Compared with Audrey Hepburn's anxiety, John on the side was very relaxed, he deliberately threw out this public welfare foundation, just to be the straw that broke the camel's back, put a heavy weight on the balance in Audrey Hepburn's heart, and tilt the balance to the side of survival.