Chapter 893: Chapter 893: Her Highness Truly Is a Lady!
I really want to take on an apprentice, but it seems my skills are only sufficient to seek a master.
He’s already seventy; at this age, taking a twenty-year-old girl as a master doesn’t make sense, so he can only drop the idea.
“Hello, is this Miss Xia Weibao?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Hello, Miss Xia, my name is Meng Songbai, I’m the Calligraphy Department Director at the Huaxia National Studies Association Headquarters. May I ask if you’re interested in joining the National Studies Association Calligraphy Department?”
Xia Weibao was stunned for a moment, the National Studies Association?
Wasn’t that the association Yin Mulan once mentioned to her? She remembers Yin Mulan joined the Ancient Dance Department.
It’s said to be a very high-threshold association, why would they suddenly reach out to her?
“Senior Meng, may I ask why you’re inviting me to join the National Studies Association?”
Xia Weibao spoke respectfully, but in her mind, she thought, humph, a scammer!
Isn’t it? A national-level association, reaching out to a celebrity in the entertainment industry like her, if not a scammer, what is it?
Meng Songbai had no idea that he was already being labeled as a scammer and continued to be full of enthusiasm.
“It’s like this, I watched your live stream and really admired your calligraphy. Our Calligraphy Department has many people who love calligraphy, joining the Calligraphy Department will allow us to explore calligraphy together and better develop your hobby.”
“Who said my hobby is calligraphy?” Xia Weibao laughed.
“You don’t like calligraphy? Then how come you write so well!”
“Writing well means I must like it?”
Xia Weibao was quite speechless, although she thought the other party was a scammer, she didn’t lie either.
The Xia Script is originally her own writing, so there’s no question of liking or disliking.
Just like students nowadays reading and writing, can you say they all love writing? It’s simply a compulsory lesson.
Different scripts of different eras, different cultures of different times, she’s merely bringing past era culture into the 21st century.
This has nothing to do with liking it.
Meng Songbai was hopping mad, such a profound culture in calligraphy, and yet you say you don’t like it despite writing so excellently?
Who’re you kidding!
As they were about to reach the company, Xia Weibao had no intention of tangling more with him.
Realizing the scammer was an old man, she maintained basic politeness.
“Grandpa, thank you for your kindness, but I’m not interested in calligraphy, please find someone else.”
“Then what are you interested in?”
His beloved calligraphy being dismissed as unliked made Meng Songbai’s face look really dour.
Xia Weibao glanced at the Hongtu Gate, laughed, “I’m interested in acting.”
“With your talent, there’s no need to mix in the entertainment industry at all,” Meng Songbai said.
Xia Weibao instantly understood what he meant.
“Grandpa, acting is my hobby. To me, there’s no difference compared to other industries. You’re involved in calligraphy, so you think calligraphy is art, but to me, acting is also an art, with no sense of high or low status.”
Actually, she really wanted to say, you scammer actually look down on me, a celebrity, having quite the nerve.
But respecting the old and cherishing the young is a fine tradition of the Huaxia ethnic group, and she’s a law-abiding good citizen.
Meng Songbai was a bit embarrassed, yes, industries have no distinction between high and low, not all celebrities are vulgar, it’s his bias.
This girl, though young, had a very clear perspective on things, really growing more and more fond of her.
“Grandpa, I have things to attend to, goodbye then.”
She felt that her temper was incredibly good; to have such composure with a scammer shows she’s indeed a lady!
“Hey hey hey, wait a minute, are you sure you won’t reconsider? Joining the National Studies Association would benefit you in every way without any harm.”