Chapter 220: The Kindness of Others

Chapter 220

The office of the Painting and Calligraphy Society was on the far left of the second floor of the student union building.

A sign for the Painting and Calligraphy Society hung at the door.

Inside, it wasn't very big, looking like a small conference room.

But you could still feel a little of the Painting and Calligraphy Society's style, because the walls were hung with many framed calligraphy and paintings.

In the corner was an erect money tree, and thick green ivy.

In the middle was a long table, and against the wall was a row of file cabinets.

When Xiaoqi Su knocked on the door and went in, both the president Li Luanliang and vice president Han Wei were there.

Seeing Xiaoqi Su come in, vice president Han Wei's expression was a little unhappy, while Li Luanliang still had a very friendly smile.

Xiaoqi Su didn't know what the two had been talking about, but in any case she felt it was still rather awkward.

She went in, greeted them and asked how they were.

Han Wei then stood up and said, "I still have an elective class tonight, so I'm leaving first."

Then she left, leaving Xiaoqi Su with the president.

Xiaoqi Su thought that the last time she saw the vice president she had felt very sophisticated and social, coordinating everything very smoothly and being very attentive, chatting and laughing easily with that Mr. Ke, and Xiaoqi Su was quite envious, feeling that this kind of person was very capable.

She hadn't expected that she would also show displeasure like a little girl, and had assumed there was discord between her and the president. Although dating was prohibited at Enhua University, if people really wanted to date, as long as they didn't walk hand in hand and get caught, it was essentially impossible to prohibit.

Xiaoqi Su kept her eyes on her nose and nose on her heart, sitting docilely across from the president.

Li Luanliang looked at the rather ill at ease junior student sister, and said, "Don't be nervous. I asked you to come just to talk about joining the Alliance City Calligrapher's Association. Last week I saw your calligraphy and it was very good. I also showed it to some seniors, and they all thought it was quite good. You're still so young, first joining the Alliance City Calligrapher's Association, and later there will be even greater opportunities to join the National Calligrapher's Association. This is an official status, and usually you won't need to do anything or attend any activities, but having this member status, you can exchange ideas with more people, and learn from each other, which will be very beneficial for your life progression and career."

Xiaoqi Su felt the Calligrapher's Association and similar things were very far from her, that it sounded very impressive when talked about, and she hadn't expected that hearing the president speak of it, it seemed very easy, because previously when hearing of any kind of association, she had felt it was something very impressive.

"What do I need to do?" Xiaoqi Su cautiously asked.

"I need you to give me a copy of your ID, I've found two people to recommend you, they have an activity this weekend, I'll take you along to participate, and also get to know the recommenders, who are seniors in the Calligrapher's Association. You just need to show your face."

Li Luanliang felt the junior student sister before him was a bit nervous, much more constrained than Han Wei. Han Wei had been especially lively and outgoing when first meeting him.

But it was probably this kind of personality that could calm the heart to practice calligraphy.

"Okay," Xiaoqi Su nodded, feeling that she should thank the president, but didn't know how to express it. She very rarely had this kind of feeling, of someone giving her goodwill without her actually doing anything, suddenly accepting another's help, which made Xiaoqi Su very uncomfortable.

Li Luanliang also didn't keep her long, after finishing discussing matters, told her he'd notify her about the specific time in advance.

When Su Youfu went to repay the money, the man was very happy.

The two left each other their addresses, and kept in telephone contact. Su Youfu left the village phone number.

Then the next year, the man suddenly called Su Youfu, saying his business had lost money, he couldn't even pay wages, hoping Su Youfu could help out and lend some money to tide things over, although not asking Su Youfu to lend money himself, just to act as guarantor. At that time the village fund could lend money if a villager acted as guarantor.

Su Youfu had received help from the man when in distress, and now he needed help, so Su Youfu agreed without much thought.

He acted as guarantor.

Later, the man disappeared, also changing his phone number. Su Youfu went to the address given to look for him, but didn't find him.

In the end that large sum became Su Youfu's responsibility as guarantor to repay.

And the Su family, that is, from that time on, the whole spine of the family collapsed, bent, and broken.

Little Seven started needing hardship subsidies to barely pay tuition since elementary school.

Every New Year's, the foundations would come to the door to collect debts, and while those from the same village wouldn't get violent, in Little Seven's memories, the New Year really was difficult, just as written in the textbooks, very sad, the money borrowed from the foundations kept accumulating interest, and it seemed like no matter how much was paid back, the debt was never cleared. In her memories, eating an apple or orange during New Year's was a luxury.

Su Youfu really repaid a drop of water with a gushing spring.

After paying it back for many years, not until Little Seven was nearing the end of middle school, was the debt finally cleared.

The villagers all laughed that Su Youfu was silly.

With this experience, Little Seven became very wary of others' goodwill.

She also didn't dare to accept it readily.

This kind of inferiority complex and fear was etched and cultivated by the worldview and environment she grew up in since she was little, and was hard to change.

But deep down she also had another emotion, which was after leaving GuMuLa village for the key high school at LvShan No.1 Middle School, and being exposed to a different world, she wanted to change, to improve, to break free of the past hardships, and to live a different life.

Little Seven felt that she and Lin Min were the same in this sense.

She always heard the system say that Lin Min was a moderately corrupted teenager, but as long as someone was a little nice to Lin Min, he would become very wary and grateful.

The system didn't say what kind of person she was, Little Seven thought, if the system did say, she was probably an extremely corrupted girl, because deep down she had an extremely inferior person, so on the outside she was extremely hardworking, extremely sunny.

She wanted to do good, to be good to others, because that was free of burden.

Even after all these years, Su Youfu had never complained about the elder brother who didn't pay back the money, and when it was brought up he was always worried that something might have happened to him, or other possibilities.

After over ten years, Su Youfu's daughter Su Xiaoqi was seventeen.