Commitment is not to be compromised
Commitment is not to be compromised
Hugh Mack is a famous American billionaire. He owns an old family company in Los Angeles and also owns a mansion on five acres in the suburb of Holbe Hill, which has twenty-nine guest rooms, a large game room as well as a home theater, a private winery, and of course a gym, tennis courts, and a grotto pool and four matching hospitality parlors ......
In this mansion is an old servant named John who came to the Mike family when he was nine years old, and he is now eighty-nine years old! He and Hugh Huff's grandfather Mike Sr. are the same age, so they grew up as both good masters and servants and good partners, they studied together, grew up together, and also married together in this house. Of course, Old Mike married a wealthy woman from the right family, while John married a horse maid in the mansion, but unfortunately the maid could not bear children and died of illness after a few years, John did not marry again, he just served everyone in the family as well as he could, from Hugh Hugh's grandfather to Hugh's father and finally to Hugh Hugh, he served for eighty years! .
Old Mike was sixty years old when he died, and John, the old servant, was also sixty years old when he sadly held old Mike's hand at his bedside and said, "Now that you're gone, isn't it time for me to get out of here, too? You know, I have nowhere to go, and I never want to leave here."
"You never have to leave here, my good man, you never have to leave this house." Old Mike said to him, and then he instructed everyone in the family, "You must remember, no matter what happens, you must not let John leave this house, he never has to leave here!"
Everyone in the family nodded in agreement, including Hugh Huff, who was only nine years old at the time. In the blink of an eye, thirty years had passed, and Hugh Huff had become the sole owner of the family company and the mansion, but then his company gradually declined, losing money year after year, and by early 2019, his company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and the only way Hugh Huff could save the company was to sell the mansion and use the money from the sale of the house to save the company! Despite his reluctance, he listed the mansion for sale, but he had one requirement: the person who bought the mansion had to take in John's old servant and take care of all his afterlife.
The mansion has a market value of $200 million, although it is expensive, but because it has quite a historical value, and the scale and facilities are also very good, so there are still many mega-rich people from all over the world rushing over to buy the mansion, but they are not willing to agree to Hugh Huff's request to take in old servant John. "I'll add five million dollars and you take him away!" A mega-rich man from Dubai made this demand.
"I won't sell you the house even for more money as long as you don't agree to my demand!" Hugh Huff said so.
As a result, just because of his insistence, the mansion was never willing to take over, and finally the old company, which had been operating for more than a hundred years, inevitably went bankrupt. After the bankruptcy, Hugh Huff returned to the old house and John's old servant to live together, they sweep the floor together, plant flowers together, together on the lawn barbecue, no one can tell who is the master and who is the servant. John old servant said to Hugh Huff with some guilt, "Actually, you can take me to live in another house when you sell the house."
"No, I can't do that, because our family gave you a promise thirty years ago: no matter what happens, you never have to leave here!" Hugh Huff said, "No promise in the world is to be discounted."
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