my daughter my hometown

Chapter 76 Preparations for the lottery

After sending away Mo Wenbin and his party and some tourists, Su Wu could finally spend a few days with his daughter.

But he still couldn't relax.

On the one hand, he had to give Shi Duanmin acupuncture and moxibustion treatment, which was not too troublesome; on the other hand, he had to raise various animals for Su Wan to prepare for her birthday lottery ceremony.This is more troublesome.

No matter how poor the population of Yangxin Valley has been over the past few years, children will still be born every year.It seems that every year there will be a lottery ceremony for girls.

Therefore, Su Wu actually only needs to go to the ancestral hall to see the small animals that other children need to draw lots, and it is almost the same.But Su Wu still couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

Seeing him fidgeting around in anxiety, Aunt Ma had no choice but to comfort him.

"Xiao Wu, you don't need to worry too much."

"There are many animals in the world and they are all kinds of strange things, but those are the only ones that children catch. Most of them are common puppies, kittens, birds, rabbits and foxes. The village has everything you need. You can rest assured."

Su Wu nodded.He has the memory of growing up here, and knows that what Aunt Ma said is true.

Like Su Xiaoniu's Cuckoo Monkey, and Su Xiaolan's Cloth Tiger are quite out of the ordinary.Most of the other little girls caught ordinary puppies and cats.

"Auntie, I really want to feel relieved." Su Wu stretched out his hand to comb the bangs of the daughter next to him, with a hesitant tone.

"Other children started to draw lots from half a year old. They didn't find their favorite animal for the first time, and they were still one year old, one and a half years old..."

"Wanwan is not young anymore. Under normal circumstances, a child of her age should be able to run, dance, talk and sing. If you don't prepare carefully, just in case..."

"Bah bah bah! Good luck. If you are tall, bad things don't work and good things work."

Aunt Ma raised her hand and smacked Su Wu's forehead hard, she cursed murderously: "Xiao Wu, what nonsense are you talking about, I will definitely be caught this time."

"Yes, yes, yes." Su Wu shrank his neck, not daring to refute.

Su Wan is awake now, although her eyes did not stop at her father and Aunt Ma next to her, she also knew that grandma had slapped her father.

"Grandma, grandma..." The little girl knew only this word for the time being, and put her arms around Aunt Ma's neck, not allowing her to hit her father.

"Good, good, good night. Grandma won't hit you, grandma won't hit your father." Aunt Ma quickly comforted the child in her arms.

"Old man, come out!" Aunt Ma obviously became anxious, she picked up Su Wan and called Su Jianguo in the room, "Let's go to the ancestral hall together to see what animals we need to prepare for Wanwan."

Su Jianguo is busy researching what clients need for sculpture.After collecting so much deposit, he couldn't keep doing nothing.

With a pair of reading glasses still hanging on his face, when Su Jianguo came out, he couldn't help muttering.

"We have never had a daughter or granddaughter, so how do we know what animals to prepare?"

Aunt Ma raised her eyebrows and raised her voice a little higher, "Damn old man, what were you muttering just now?"

Su Jianguo is also a person who can carry a hundred and eighty catties of wood and walk like flying outside without changing his face.Under the bombardment of Aunt Ma's high-pitched voice, she couldn't help shivering.

"I didn't say anything, old lady, you must have heard wrong, but I didn't say anything. Let's go!"

"There will be, don't worry, auntie. My grandson will have it soon, and my granddaughter will too." Su Wu resolutely diverted his hatred for Uncle Ma.

"Heizi called me yesterday and said that he seemed to have a crush on a girl when he was learning how to drive. The girl seemed to have some interest in him..."

Sure enough, Aunt Ma immediately forgot her husband's little muttering, and looked at Su Wu with joy.

"Really? Why didn't I hear Heizi mention it. What's the girl's name, what does she look like, and where is her family?"

Su Wu spread his hands, "Auntie, you should ask Heizi these questions, I don't know."

Aunt Ma happily nodded and wrote it down.

Su Wu silently wiped his sweat.In rural areas, women of Aunt Ma's age seldom carry their mobile phones with them, so I was not exposed by the phone on the spot.

Not long after walking, I met Shi Duanmin and her mother Ye Ting who were holding a puppy.After hearing what Su Wu said, the mother and daughter followed up enthusiastically to watch.

The ancestral hall of Yangxin Valley does not restrict the entry and visit of outsiders.It's just that it's not a big festival or an important day, the main gate of the ancestral hall has not been opened, and the high threshold has not been removed.

A group of people entered through the small door next to it.

The lottery ceremony of Yangxin Valley is basically the focus of the whole family, and it will be held at least once a year.Therefore, there is a special place for drawing lots outside the west chamber of the ancestral hall.

A group of people stepped into the west chamber, and soon saw a spacious open space among the pavilions.The ground is inlaid with blue bricks circle after circle of rings of different sizes.Each ring is carved with exquisite patterns, including flowers, birds, cranes and fish.Several people were dazzled by seeing it.

"This is where the lottery is drawn, so beautiful." Ye Ting looked around curiously, "What are these beautiful circles for?"

She is going to stay with her daughter in Yangxin Valley for a long time, and she is trying to learn the local dialect from Su Qing, taking every opportunity to practice pronunciation.

"It's for lottery." Su Wu pointed to the middle of the circle, "There is usually a baby carriage in the middle. Then put animals in large and small circles around it."

Shi Duanmin excitedly put her little milk dog on an arc, and with a bright smile on her face, she asked, "Uncle, is that so?"

"That's it." Su Wu nodded.

"After offering sacrifices to the ancestors on the day of lottery, the children are placed in the middle, pushed in a stroller, and pass various animals one by one along the circle. If they meet their favorite, the children will reach out and grab it by themselves."

"It's over like this?" Ye Ting couldn't believe it.

Looking at the huge, complex and exquisite graphics on the ground, she thought that the lottery ceremony was like some kind of god-chattering ceremony held on TV. It was such a troublesome process of offering sacrifices to heaven, praying or eating fire and snakes.

Su Wu laughed.

"It turned out to be quite complicated. Basically, it took more than half a day to finish drawing lots. However, this ceremony is held every year, and the younger generation is less and less concerned about these traditions. Except for the children's immediate family members, other People are also lazy. Gradually it becomes the same as recognizing the ancestors and returning to the clan, just fooling around."

"What a pity." Ye Ting looked at the complex and exquisite ring decorations on the ground, her face was full of regret, "Isn't it advocating tradition now. The lottery ceremony of Yangxin Valley can actually shine brightly."

Su Wu was noncommittal.

He is not in the mood to pay attention to the glamor of the ceremony, he only wants his daughter to get the lottery and find his favorite animal to return to normal.

In the side room of the west wing, there is an information booklet, which records in detail the animals used by the children of each family to draw lots. The purpose of Su Wu and his pedestrians is this.

After getting permission from the caretaker elder, Aunt Ma ordered the three adults to move all the brochures to the flower hall with one effort.

I really don’t know if I don’t turn it over, I’m startled when I turn it over.

Parents of all ages have worked hard to draw lots for their daughters.All kinds of animals were prepared, and the adults were dumbfounded.

Su Wu took out his mobile phone and began to record every animal. The more he recorded, the more depressed he became.

There are normal cats, dogs, pigs and cattle in the information booklet, as well as rare jackals, tigers and leopards; there are birds and fish everywhere, and rare cranes and snow leopards.

Copying and copying, Su Wu was a little numb.

It is estimated that he will not be too surprised if he finds the dinosaurs, Godzilla, King Kong and Ultraman in the West or the dragon, white tiger, Suzaku and Xuanwu in the East.

Fortunately, there are no such nonsense foreign blockbusters in this world, and the heads of people in Yangxin Valley are still normal. Su Wu copied it for a long time, but he didn't find these things.

"This," Ye Ting suddenly pointed to the red-crowned crane above, and asked in surprise, "You won't really catch a red-crowned crane and put it on the ring for the children to draw lots."

"That's possible." Su Wu shook his head dumbfoundingly, "Usually Uncle Ma carves a small red-crowned crane or buys a model from a store outside and puts it up for the children to choose. What if it is really selected. Let's think about it later." Method."

"How do you think of a way?" Ye Ting opened her eyes wide, "For example, that cloth tiger, did you find it in the tiger's den?"

Because Shi Duanmin likes to play with tigers, in fact, she has long wanted to ask Su Xiaolan how she got the tiger and the elephant named Niuniu.

Moreover, officials like Mo Wenbin dared to come out to play openly when they arrived in Yangxin Valley.

Su Wu laughed.

"What are Abu and Niuniu? If you stay here for a long time, you will see that there are also national treasure pandas in the village."

"But their owners got married, so the pandas stayed in the nearby bamboo forest and rarely came down."

　20 words.Wanwan hasn't said a complete sentence yet, it's too silly.

　　Gotta speed up.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)