Speaking of lottery, it definitely has a long history and tradition in Heihe.
In the 1990s, it was popular among people in Heihe to buy lottery tickets. Of course, it was not welfare lottery, because welfare lottery had not yet been launched on the market at that time.
In addition to various lucky draws and sales with prizes, the most popular activity among Heihe people is prize savings.
Both the Agricultural Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China have introduced a savings method called fixed-amount, regular, and rewarded savings.
No matter it is a deposit certificate of ten yuan or one hundred yuan, there will be words of group number on the deposit certificate, and numbers are printed on both the main ticket and the duplicate ticket, which are generally seven-digit numbers, such as 00, 00, etc.
These digital numbers are the proof of winning the prize.
If the number drawn matches the number on your savings certificate, then congratulations, you have won the prize.
Of course, these certificates of deposit are usually valid for more than three years, and withdrawals are generally not allowed during this period.
This is mainly to prevent you from depositing money today and withdrawing it tomorrow to buy prizes.
Every time the lottery is drawn, people from all ages in Heihe City come out to the city, creating huge crowds of people.
Businesses at that time were also very innovative and once did things like hiring planes to drop electronic watches to create hype.
Fortunately, electronic watches were no longer valuable at that time, otherwise, if so many people had gotten into chaos, who knows how many people would have been trampled to death.
The small prizes are nothing more than washbasins, laundry detergent, electronic watches, etc., but the grand prize is weird.
There have been standard color TVs, motorcycles and cars, as well as unusual Jiefang Dongfeng trucks, but the most outrageous thing is that the first prize was won by the Dongfanghong 80 tractor.
Wan Feng didn't know whether he was the one who started this trend in Heihe, because this kind of prize-winning savings had not been implemented in 1988.
Regardless of whether he started this tradition or not, the lottery he organized this time attracted a large number of people to Heihe.
At 7:00 a.m. on September 5th, a podium was set up in front of the 100th gate of Heihe City.
In front of the store, colorful flags were flying and gongs and drums were beating, just like the New Year.
There was a big red banner hanging on the rostrum, and on one side of the rostrum were two Nanwan 100 motorcycles tied with big red cloths. Next to the motorcycles were four color TVs, five washing machines, and six bicycles.
These are today's prizes from first prize to third prize.
The banner on the rostrum read "A lucky draw to raise funds for a new nursing home for the elderly and widows."
There were also some small banners with many misleading words written on them.
There are many opportunities and prizes; a drop of water makes a river.
Doing good deeds for the disabled will accumulate virtue and do good deeds; doing good deeds for the elderly will prolong their lives.
A 10,000 yuan prize is not a dream, luck lies in two yuan.
Anyway, these are all words that China Welfare Lottery has used before, and all those that Wan Feng can remember have been used here.
At 7:15, a leader from Heihe City came to the stage to speak first, and he said a lot of nonsense.
The central idea is that the city's nursing home has been in disrepair for a long time and can no longer shelter from rain in the summer and wind in the winter. The city has exhausted its resources on the local railway, so it held this lottery to raise funds to solve the problem of elderly care for the lonely elderly.
Comrade Wan Feng, the sponsor of this prize, was also mentioned.
Then, Comrade Wan Feng also came on stage and spoke passionately.
Two yuan may be just a drop in the ocean for you, but when accumulated together, it can become a mighty river. Please show your love and make a contribution to the elderly care industry in our city.
Bragging is Wan Feng's specialty. What he said was very emotional, tearful and very inflammatory and persuasive. Finally, he made a sudden decision to add another 10,000 yuan in prize money to give back to the folks of Heihe.
Then, there was thunderous applause from the audience.
Afterwards, the leader Heihe rang the bell to open the lottery meeting.
The Heihe City Public Security Bureau mobilized police forces from all police stations in the city to maintain order at the scene.
There are ten prize-drawing boxes set up throughout the rostrum, guarded by public security officers.
After the lottery started, long queues formed in each lottery box. Under the maintenance of public security officers, the people who drew the prizes maintained an orderly manner.
The first prize that allowed setting off firecrackers was drawn at around 7:40.
A little girl of about fourteen or fifteen years old, led by her mother, found a Lotus brand washing machine.
The on-site broadcast immediately announced the appearance of a second prize, and then a string of firecrackers began to blast.
The little girl who got the prize cried with joy, and her mother also looked very proud.
After the firecrackers went off, the women who touched the prizes brought their children to the stage to receive the awards.
Wan Feng personally handed the prize to her and also arranged a car to help her transport the washing machine home.
This time when the firecrackers went off, the people who were drawing the prizes seemed to be stimulated and started to make a commotion.
And when the first color TV was found, the scene became a little crazy.
Fortunately, there were a lot of police officers and the scene did not become chaotic.
The person who touched the first color TV was a farmer-looking man in his early thirties wearing a green hat. He touched two lottery tickets in total.
The god of luck fell on his head.
When he saw the words "first prize" on the lottery ticket, he squatted on the ground and burst into tears.
The two policemen who were maintaining order thought he had been robbed and rushed over.
When they learned that he had won a color TV, they led him to the podium with a smile on their faces.
The farmer was so excited that he was a little incoherent, and he expressed his gratitude to the society and the Party.
The first prize should be awarded to a person of a higher level.
A city leader presented the lucky winner with a prize.
When color TVs appeared, people became a little impatient and kept urging the people in front of them to hurry up, fearing that they would miss out if they were late.
By a little after ten o'clock in the morning, one first prize, two second prizes, and two third prizes had been won, with countless other small prizes.
But there was still no movement on the special prize.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, a middle-aged woman came to the lottery box holding a child of six or seven years old and spent six yuan to pick three lottery tickets.
The lottery ticket was touched by a child.
The woman bought the lottery ticket but did not open it on the spot. Instead, she took her child to a corner and opened it secretly. Then she looked surprised.
This woman is Qu Yang's daughter-in-law.
Of course she won the grand prize, because the grand prize ticket was in her hands last night.
It doesn't matter whether the lottery ticket she bought for six dollars won any other prizes.
Of course, these two special prizes will not be put into the prize box, but Wan Feng put all the other prizes into the box.
All of this was arranged by Wan Feng, including when she would arrive at the scene to draw the prizes, how she would draw the prizes, and how she would redeem the prizes.
Of course, at this time Wan Feng left the stage on the pretext of going to the bathroom.
After Wan Feng stepped down, he actually went to the toilet behind the 100 Stores. Just as he was hesitating to pull up his pants, firecrackers were heard in front of him.
This time the sound of firecrackers lasted very long, which meant that the grand prize had been won.
When Wan Feng returned to the front desk, the motorcycle had already been loaded onto a 130 bus arranged by the city.
When Wan Feng returned here, the car was driving away from behind the rostrum.
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