During this long process of searching for her daughter, in this despair, Grandma Yang seemed to gradually feel that if she had not always cut paper, if she could have taken more care of Rongrong, perhaps Rongrong would not have been abducted.

So I haven't touched paper cutting in these years.

She never told anyone that she could cut paper.

Now standing on this show, she started cutting paper again.

Until now, she is standing here, more than 30 years later, she hopes to use her talent to win the prize and continue to look for her daughter. Maybe with the help of this program, more people can see her, maybe her daughter can see her too, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope.

It's not like she hasn't approached the media in recent years.

But she was an old lady from a poor family, and her daughter had been missing for more than 30 years. She didn't even have a photo of her daughter when she was a child.

The media is helpless.

Netizens are still discussing it.

[Grandma Yang's husband's family is too much. The child was lost by the mother-in-law, and in the end they blamed Grandma Yang. There is not a single good person in the family.]

Two netizens from Longgang Town said, "Grandma Yang's in-laws were really ruthless. In those years, it was Grandma Yang who carried goods from door to door to make money to support the family. However, the family failed to take good care of a four-year-old girl, who was abducted at her doorstep."

Over the years, neighbors have watched her search for her daughter. I really hope she can get the prize, or be on this show, so that more people can see her, and Grandma Yang’s daughter can see her, and the mother and daughter can be reunited. 】

[It feels a bit difficult. Grandma Yang's daughter was only four years old when she was lost, right? Four-year-olds generally don't remember much, and more than 30 years have passed. Grandma Yang's daughter is middle-aged now, and she must have even less memory of her childhood. I'm afraid she really can't be found.]

[Oh, oh, isn't Sangsang a fortune teller? When we get to see Grandma Yang later, can we ask Sangsang to tell her where her daughter is? ]

[I feel that this is unlikely. After all, this program is not a fortune-telling program. It is an audition program with many people. It is definitely not a good idea to tell people's fortunes on the program.]

[Speaking of which, the I Ching and face reading can be considered a kind of culture passed down by our ancestors. There is nothing wrong with Sangsang telling Grandma Yang's fortune on this show.

In fact, it fits the name of the program quite well, and maybe it can let more people see the I Ching culture that is about to be lost. 】

[Stop arguing and watch the competition first. Twenty minutes are up. Let's see what Grandma Yang cuts.]

It's been almost twenty minutes.

All twenty contestants stopped and showed their works to everyone.

The first dozen or so contestants were eliminated.

They only have a limited knowledge, so they can't pass the audition.

Finally, the twelve-year-old calligraphy boy passed the audition.

The last one is Grandma Yang.

Wang Chengyi looked at the old lady in front of him with gray hair, hunched back and a haggard appearance, and said in a gentle voice: "I wonder what kind of work this old craftsman will bring to us. I just saw that this old craftsman was cutting paper, and now he can show it to us. Everyone is looking forward to what the paper-cut will look like after it is opened."

Grandma Yang nodded.

Wei reached out her hand tremblingly and unfolded the red paper she had cut in order.

She is old, and the only time her hands don’t shake is when she is cutting paper.

My hands always shake a little when I work on weekdays.

After the paper-cut was unfolded, a graceful and elegant peony appeared before everyone.

No one expected that this haggard-looking old lady could cut such beautiful paper.

【Wow! What a beautiful peony! 】

[This grandma Yang's paper cutting skills are so good! This peony is so beautiful. ]

[It’s so beautiful! Oh my god, I can actually see such a beautiful peony on paper-cut, and it’s completely different from ordinary paper-cuts. It feels very complicated. This peony is not symmetrical. It is a main flower with two small flowers next to it. Even the leaves are cut out. It’s so beautiful! ]

Many paper-cuts are cut symmetrically.

This is a relatively simple cutting method.

However, the peony cut by Grandma Yang was not symmetrical. The main flower had layers of petals, the small peonies were also layered, and one was a bud, with branches and leaves surrounding the peony.

The beauty of peony can actually be expressed through paper cutting.

【It’s really, really beautiful! 】

[I feel like Grandma Yang might actually win the championship. Even if she doesn’t win, she’ll definitely win the runner-up or third place.]

The four judges were also very impressed.

Each of them began to comment.

Wang Chengyi commented: "It is a very beautiful peony. This paper-cut fully presents the beauty of the peony. My answer is pass."

The auditions are divided into pass and fail.

No scoring.

As long as three judges choose to pass, the audition is considered passed.

The other two judges, veteran artists Liu Shimian and Zhong Kai, also gave a pass.

If three judges approve you, you’ve passed the auditions.

Grandma Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There is only one judge left.

Grandma Yang looked at the beautiful young judge in front of her.

The judge smiled and said, "This peony is great. It requires six-dimensional abilities, creativity, spatial ability, and observation ability, which are much higher than ordinary people's. Only in this way can you cut such a beautiful paper-cut. Grandma, you are very talented. Your work will be loved by many people. So, grandma, you passed this audition. Congratulations."

This is a recognition of Grandma Yang's paper-cutting skills.

Grandma Yang looked excited.

She pursed her lips, wanting to say something, wanting to ask the audience in front of the TV if they had seen her daughter.

But she didn't even have a photo of her daughter.

We were so poor back then that taking photos was very expensive.

Taking a photo is a luxury.

She doesn't even have a photo of her daughter, how can she ask everyone to help her find her daughter?

The other contestants left after being selected by the judges.

She hesitated, knowing that this time she might not be able to tell the audience why she came to the show.

Grandma Yang sighed and was about to turn around and leave.

But the very pretty girl who was the judge smiled and said, “Grandma, your paper cutting skills are amazing, can I ask where did you learn to do it?

Your paper-cutting is very beautiful. If you have been in the paper-cutting world for these years, you should have a place in it. But I don’t seem to see grandma in the paper-cutting world. How did grandma want to be on this show? Can you tell us about it? "

Grandma Yang stared blankly at the girl in front of her.

As for the previous contestants, the girl didn’t ask many questions.

She didn't even ask about the young man who had just passed the audition when he started learning calligraphy or who he learned from.

Why do you ask yourself?

The other three judges were also a little surprised and glanced at Shen Sang.

None of the three said much.

They knew that Shen Sang must have some deeper meaning behind asking this question.

Grandma Yang didn't have time to think about it. She clutched the corner of her clothes tightly and said, "My name is Yang Daya. I learned the paper-cutting technique from an old grandfather when I was young..."

She slowly began to tell her story.

Tells about how he learned paper cutting from the grandfather next door.

Then there was a famine and her family sold her to her husband's family for a bag of rice.

After fleeing the famine, she followed her husband's family to Longgang Town and settled down there.

She started cutting paper at that time and carried the goods around the town to sell.

Many people like her paper-cuts and they always sell out quickly.

Then her daughter was lost.

She omitted the bad things that her family and her husband's family did to her.

She did not say that it was her husband's family who lost the child, and she did not tell everyone that it was her husband who scolded her for cutting paper, which led to the loss of Rongrong.

Grandma Yang said with tears in her eyes, "After Rongrong was lost, I didn't want to touch paper cutting anymore. Everyone is responsible for Rongrong's disappearance, but I am more responsible. I am her mother, I should have taken good care of her, it's all my fault... I came to the show today, hoping that everyone can help me, I, I want to find Rongrong, find my daughter."

But she didn't even have a photo of Rongrong when she was a child.

More than 30 years have passed, and Rongrong is almost 40 years old.

I don’t even know what it looks like, how can I find it?

She was completely despairing and had no hope.

Only then did netizens realize that Grandma Yang had already known how to cut paper.

Maybe because he lost his daughter, he doesn’t want to touch paper cutting again.

[I think the truth should be more than that. According to the two netizens from Longgang Town, Grandma Yang's husband was a drunkard, whore, gambler, and often abused Grandma Yang. Could it be that after Grandma Yang's daughter was lost, her husband thought it was because she cut paper and sold it every day and was not at home to take care of the child, so he blamed Grandma Yang for the child's loss and did not allow Grandma Yang to cut paper anymore? ]

[I think the above person has revealed the truth, otherwise Grandma Yang wouldn't have kept repeating that she was more responsible. I feel like she was being PUAed.]

[This man, who was a drunkard and a whore, didn't support his family. His wife asked the rest of the family to take care of the child in order to support the family, but the child was lost. In the end, he even blamed it on his grandmother's paper-cutting. He is such a scumbag, luckily he is dead! ]

[Now that Grandma Yang has appeared on the show and told her story, can you please help Grandma Yang? ]

[I think Sangsang is really nice. I suspect that Sangsang must have seen through Grandma Yang's situation, so he asked the old lady why she knew how to paper-cut. Sangsang didn't ask any questions to the previous auditions...]

[I also think that Sangsang must have seen something, so she asked Grandma Yang this question, and asked her to tell her story through the program so that more people can know about it, and maybe it can help Grandma Yang find her daughter. ]

[Isn't Shen Sang a fortune teller? So can Shen Sang help Grandma Yang? ]

[Yes, Sangsang is a fortune teller. She figured out that Sun Xiaocao was not the Sun family’s child, but was deliberately taken away by Sun’s mother to replace the child...

So Sangsang must be able to figure out where Grandma Yang’s daughter was abducted and what her name was, right?

Can Sangsang help Grandma Yang? She is so pitiful. She might have become an old artist, but now her old age is so miserable. 】

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