The end of the vacation

"Henry, can you take me to the library?" Mrs. Hepburn opened the window and called out to Henry, who was still tending to the flowerbed.

"Okay, I'll be right there after I've packed up." Henry kicked the dog's rear end, which was still frolicking nearby, dusted himself off, and went inside.

Take the dirt on himself, for example. How much of it was kicked by this Jack Russell Terrier? Well, okay, there are five of them, so Henry might have kicked the wrong one. But he doesn't care at all; sooner or later, he'll have these five dogs rearrange the order of things in the house.

Just as I reached the door, I saw Robert open it and come out. He was dressed in casual sportswear and was waving a dog leash in his hand.

The Jack Russell Terrier were more excited than anyone else at the sight of the leash. All five dogs ran to Robert's feet, circling and sniffing him as if they wanted to wag their tails off.

Seeing this, Henry asked, "Robert, are you going out for a jog? I need to drive my boss to town. Is there anything I can bring back for you?"

"No need," Robert complained, patting his slightly protruding belly. "Every time you're in charge of the kitchen, I end up eating too much. If I don't exercise more, I'm afraid I'll get so fat I can't get out of bed one day."

"But every time you come back from exercising, you always say you're hungry, and then you eat an extra bowl of rice. Don't you think that the exercise is the reason you're gaining weight?" Henry said jokingly.

"Hey, you little rascal. You're the murderer, and you're trying to pin the blame on someone else," Robert protested as he tied the dog's leash.

Once the leash was fastened, he not only slapped his own cheeks to cheer himself up, but even the dogs ran to the front, pulling the leash taut. With all five dogs pulling, Robert had no choice but to run.

Robert turned back and said, "I'll be back before dinner. Remember to make something nice." Then he ran off.

Henry yelled from behind, "Dude, you can't blame me for being fat!"

This cheerful and optimistic veteran actor raised his middle finger high behind his back and ran away without looking back.

Audrey Hepburn, who was just about to leave, came to the entrance and met Henry. He looked at the people jogging away outside and asked, "Robert went out for his exercise?"

"Yes, boss. Please wait a moment while I grab the keys, pack my things, and head over to get the car."

"No rush, be careful."

"Alright." Henry went up to his room in the Penthouse and found several books in a paper bag. He had borrowed them from the town library using the lady's library card.

The books were mostly in French and German, and their content differed from the English books he had read in Los Angeles. They were quite inspiring for Henry. However, the town library's collection was predominantly literary. Its advantage, if anything, was that it had books from various countries, written in their respective languages.

Henry placed a paper bag of books directly on the passenger seat of the car, then drove to the front door and got out to help Ms. Hepburn carry the books.

It was called moving books, but it was really just a few, completely disproportionate to Henry's reading volume. So when Audrey Hepburn saw the bag of books in the passenger seat that was about to be returned, she exclaimed in surprise, "You've read all of these? You're really quick!"

He opened the back door, carefully placing his hand on the top edge of the door. Henry chuckled, "I read fast, you know. Besides, these aren't literary masterpieces; just treat them like storybooks."

"That's incredibly rude of you to the author," Ms. Hepburn said sternly.

"I understand. If I have the chance to see them in person, I will definitely apologize sincerely." Henry said this seemingly humbly, but actually perfunctorily. To be honest, this is a habit he developed from reading online novels.

Audrey Hepburn, as if she had figured out Henry's lazy nature, simply complained, "You child," and said nothing more. She then remembered something else and asked, "Has the United Nations contacted us?"

Henry, driving, replied, "The UNICEF team has already started planning the activities. However, with the fierce Civil War in various parts of Africa this year, peacekeeping forces are necessary to accompany us to many places."

"While South America and Asia are much safer, there are many places we've just visited. Going there again in the short term wouldn't be very effective. So it's difficult for them to plan their itinerary."

Do you have any plans to go anywhere? You must have a general idea.

"It's possible they really don't have it, so they said they'd also like to ask for your opinion, ma'am."

"Ask for my opinion?" Audrey Hepburn was slightly surprised.

During the brief stop, Henry took a stack of documents from the briefcase on the passenger side and handed them to Ms. Hepburn in the back seat. He said, "Actually, I originally planned to report to you during afternoon tea. But since you asked, I'll just mention it now."

"This information is what I compiled last night, about your activities with United Nations Children's Fund since 1988, and the aid activities of UNICEF in the past decade."

"The third page begins with the stability situation in various countries, which is a general assessment based on data provided by the United Nations and news reports from newspapers and magazines."

"Followed by this is the need for assistance from human rights organizations in various countries, which, simply put, is the state of poverty in those countries. Finally, it's whether they request an invitation from the United Nations."

In addition to written descriptions, Henry also hand-drew maps of Africa, South Asia, Central America, and South America, covering most of the world's poorest countries.

They also used colored pencils to mark different countries to varying degrees, making it easy for people to understand at a glance.

The skill in this presentation is undoubtedly honed in a past life. The mastery of PowerPoint software since 1987...

It was created in 1990 and acquired by Microsoft in 1990. But it was not as ubiquitous as it would be one or two decades later; it had relatively few users and its functions were somewhat lacking.

So Henry simply hand-drew the layout to create the page he wanted. After all, at his current speed, drawing was much faster than computer typesetting and then figuring out how to output it as a paper document.

Ms. Hepburn was also accustomed to reports like Henry's, which were presented in a graphical manner as much as possible.

This approach makes it easier for people to understand and compare than simply using text.

Because the maps on several reports were all drawn in the same location, Audrey Hepburn superimposed the reports and held them up to the sunlight outside the car window. She immediately discovered a place in the Africa landscape that looked like a black hole, with very few markings.

That was located south of Ethiopia, north of Kenya, and west of Somalia. Audrey Hepburn pointed to the hollow and asked curiously, "What is this place?"

Henry glanced at it briefly and replied, "That's Wakanda, a backward and impoverished agricultural country. It's still a monarchy, and the current king is T'Chaka. Although it doesn't have diplomatic relations with any other country, it is a member state of the United Nations."

The above information was provided by the United Nations; Henry did not make any unfounded guesses or fabrications based on his own memory.

Ms. Hepburn asked, "Can we go here? Wakanda?"

Henry replied frankly, "Probably not. Wakanda has not received any assistance from human rights organizations or established human rights protection agencies within its borders, so we have no reason to visit."

"On the other hand, they never extended an invitation, and we can't just be uninvited guests. However, boss, you could try requesting a visit from Wakanda through UNICEF. But I don't think they'll agree."