Some people, who look well-dressed on the surface, are picking cotton behind their backs.Also got rich.

The staff who took them to the side of the road went back halfway to do things in the fields.He Jun and Guan Zhengyang worked diligently and diligently, picking up cotton on the side of the road.Coupled with the help of the program crew who were idle and bored, the group picked up ten snakeskin bags of cotton in just one hour, and sent them to a roadside shop for processing.

Cotton is very light, but there are cotton seeds in the cotton, but the weight is not light at all.Cottonseeds can be extracted for oil, and processing shops will sell them later.After removing the weeds and cotton seeds from the three catties of cotton, only one catty remained.Two catties of weight can make a thin summer quilt.

It only costs 25 yuan to make a quilt with the collected cotton, a layer of net cover, and processing fees.Outrageously cheap.However, it’s okay for foreign tourists to bring it back by themselves. If it’s mailed back, the postage may be able to buy one directly online.

It is already being processed in the small shop.He Jun and Guan Zhengyang picked up another pile, and when they arrived at the processing shop, the clerk was quick to help with the batch of cotton. Seeing them, they were overwhelmed with admiration: "The quality of yours is so good! You can sell it for eight or nine yuan a catty. Woolen cloth."

The price was double what He Jun and the others had originally estimated.

He Jun was surprised: "So valuable?"

The clerk responded: "That's right, there are fewer impurities to be dealt with. They can be sold at a good price. Otherwise, they are all messy branches and leaves. There are not a few catties of real cotton in them. Who wants to buy them at a high price?"

Since there are not many places to deal with the picked cotton, the clerk helped to get out all the large branches of the cotton first, and quickly hugged a large handful of cotton in his arms, and stuffed it into the machine in one go.

This is a machine for removing cotton seeds.The machine removes the cotton seeds, and quickly produces snow-white cotton material.Turning around, the clerk took the cotton material out and stuffed it into the machine again.

This time it came out differently.This time it came out like a quilt, neatly in a big square, and I don't know what kind of process it is.

The materials they picked out were really good, and they picked and picked, even the darker ones on the road, so that the big square that came out was so white that it was dazzling, and it was so soft that it could sink in if you stretched out your hand. Can't help but marvel.

In the barrage, many people of the older generation have seen plucked cotton, and many people of the new generation have never even seen how the quilt is made. The rest of those who have seen how to make the quilt are just there to marvel : "It's really good cotton."

Everyone witnessed with their own eyes how the cotton was picked up from the side of the road, and how it fell from the sack to the ground. Even the stuffing into the machine was watched by the big guys.No chemical ingredients are added in the whole process, and there is no additional manual process.

Under the simple and crude operation process, the cotton quilts produced are as snowy as clouds.

He Jun and Guan Zhengyang had never seen making quilts before, so they thought it would be good, so they wanted to go over and get started.As a result, the clerk moved faster, holding these and stuffing them into a new machine.The new machine is stuffed with loose cotton, and when it comes out, it is like silk weaving, and a thin layer is covered on the drum little by little.This forms a real cotton batt.

"It's too exaggerated, this quilt is really white."

"It's really exaggerated. If it weren't for the all-concrete background in the store, it would look so dark. I would have thought it was a filter effect. It's so white that it has a soft light."

"If I had such a quilt 20 years ago, I could use it for a wedding."

"Don't talk about the past, it's no exaggeration to use it for marriage now."

This moment the cotton is really like living up to its name.Cotton Cotton, visually as soft as cotton candy.Swiping and pulling it casually makes people feel that this is something that can be put in the mouth.

Inside the shop like a small workshop, the walls are indeed made of cement, and the machine has been used for an unknown number of years. It looks very old, and all kinds of dead branches and cotton seeds are piled up messily on the ground, withered, yellow, dirty and black.

Only this quilt is out of place.

The clerk pulled out a table.He took off the batting from the roller, pulled it, spread it out on a table aside, and trimmed the edges according to the standard size.Then I selected good quilt meshes for them, covered them, dragged the table to the bottom of the machine, and pressed it with the machine.

The quilt, which originally looked thick and exaggerated, became thinner instantly under the pressure of the machine.Of course, He Jun and the others are asking for a quilt that can be covered in winter, so the weight is quite amazing, and the thickness is not so thin that it is exaggerated.

The clerk pulled out the table and adjusted the quilt, repeated the last step, put it back and pressed it again.This will allow the cotton to be pressed more evenly.

After two strokes, the quilt was dragged out and folded, and the bed was completed.

The program group was jealous when they were picking cotton before, and secretly picked up several bags for themselves.Now a bed of quilts is waiting for the clerk to make them in one go.The whole process is convenient and fast, and does not require much manpower at all.

Guan Zhengyang opened his mouth slightly: "I thought I could witness the cotton being picked by hand."

Hearing this, the clerk glanced at Guan Zhengyang, and asked admiringly, "How old are you, sir?"

Guan Zhengyang looked at the clerk in shock: "Why are you just a master? Is it already a question that a master would ask you to pluck cotton by hand!"

Danmaku even laughed out loud on the spot: "Hahahaha there are very few hand-plucked cotton nowadays. This is considered an old craft."

"It reminds me of the years when I played an instrument. My teacher always liked to say that I was playing cotton. In a few years, I am afraid that this kind of saying will disappear."

"I think what Guan Zhengyang means is that he wanted to try picking cotton, but the mechanization made him useless."

"Laughing to death, there is no chance to do things."

Guan Zhengyang really didn't have a chance to do anything.He turned east and west, and finally could only help the clerk carry the quilt.He Jun weighed the quilt there.After all, this is a small shop, and each quilt will not be accurate to a few catties, just estimate the weight.

The quilt weighed seven or eight pounds, and there were slight deviations from top to bottom.

The store did not toss them with heavier quilts.Covering with an overly thick quilt to keep warm is to keep warm, and it is really heavy if it is heavy.It's strange that I can sleep well when I sleep on a mountain at night.

When other people come to travel, they bring all kinds of special food back home.The program team came over to shoot and took it back, and first handed a quilt.

It's all done, half a day has passed.

The group went back to the cotton planting family and had a good meal as a group.

The family raised a flock of sheep, caught a whole sheep and gave it to the program crew to roast and eat.They tossed a few more chickens and made Dapan Chicken and Shredded Pepper Chicken.

He Jun tasted the meat, and found that it was completely different from the mutton and chicken eaten in the south.I don't know how the fresh sheep and chickens are bred, but there is no fishy smell after processing.

The meat is tender and fresh.Especially the roast leg of lamb, just put it on the plate, it was steaming, and the oil dripped onto the plate.The spices are sprinkled, and the meat can fully roast the flavor of the spices on the spot.

One bite down the mouth full of fragrance.

The taste of the big plate chicken is average, and the taste is not much different from that of southern dishes except for its freshness, but the pepper chicken is torn and put in a pancake and stuffed into your mouth.It's almost like a villain is dancing in the mouth.Eat two more mouthfuls of spicy food so that Sihasiha will be on the spot.

He Jun and Guan Zhengyang didn't like to eat as much as Tong Wenle, but they couldn't resist the temptation, and they were completely conquered by this fresh food.To be honest, although there are many dishes on the train, because they are not so fresh, the taste is not as good as the current ones.

People who have never eaten really fresh ones can hardly feel the difference in food, and they will be confused: "What is so delicious about this kind of food?".Local delicacies must always be eaten locally in order to best experience the taste and flavor.

Such as meat, such as seafood.

The funniest thing is that locals eat meat with pancakes or steamed buns.No matter how bad it is, I have to have some noodles.

But Mr. He and Guan Zhengyang are completely southerners, and they all brought rice. Of course, they wanted some rice.As a result, after enjoying enough spices on the tongue coating, eating rice has a strange taste.It's so sweet that it's like eating another dish.

A group of people, even the locals who brought them to eat roasted lamb before, ate up a bowl of rice.

"No wonder rice is grown in the south." The professional cotton and sheep farmer said with emotion, "It tastes so good. You can kill a bowl without eating anything."

He Jun and Guan Zhengyang kept talking and nodded.

The fresh, spicy taste on the tongue coating will be covered up by starchy foods.When people turn their heads and eat delicious food again, the taste buds will be awakened again, which is a new kind of experience.This repetitive delicacy is really addictive.

After nodding, the two of them once again had a night of extra training tonight.There is always a price to pay for eating too much.

Accompanied by the sound of Dombula playing, Guan Zhengyang's shout came from the place where the program group temporarily lived at night: "I don't want to become Tong Wenyue!"

The bullet screen laughed and split crosses on the spot: "Tong Wenle: Don't cue, I'm busy."

"Tong Wenle: Oh, you eat better than me, cue me."

"Tong Wenle: It's better to airlift me a sheep instead of bringing me a quilt."

Talented people are more talented in the barrage area.

The sun rose the next day.

Cows bask in the sun, sheep eat grass, and groups of small animals wander around to start a new day.

The day before, after eating, drinking, and exercising, he was tired and fell asleep. After a full sleep, Guan Zhengyang naturally got up early in the morning.He picked up the dombra that he borrowed yesterday, and successfully woke up all the staff including He Jun with a brisk tune.

In Guan Zhengyang's hands, Dongbula's playing instrument can be used as a guitar.He played for an hour, and besides not being good at the local music, he has already played it quite well.

After He Jun was woken up, he drank a cup of local milk tea slowly.The two put on convenient clothes, boarded the car and headed to the destination according to the requirements of the program group, and chatted with Guan Zhengyang about today's itinerary.

"Today we are going to follow the cotton and go through the complete transportation process." He Jun took out his tablet and briefly drew the process on the screen.

"Yesterday we saw how the local cotton was harvested and how the cotton was turned into quilts. Today we will see how the cotton is transported by rail." He Jun introduced, "Medical protective clothing, cotton balls, and cotton swabs everywhere are actually It is made of cotton. In the past, there were special cotton-picking trains that transported people to collect cotton. Now there are special cotton-transporting trains that transport cotton outside.”

On the screen, the cotton is collected and sent to the ginning factory. After entering the ginning factory, it is divided into cotton wool and cotton seeds by the machine.The batting is compressed and packed again, and sent to dry.After drying for enough time, the compressed cotton is transported onto the train and finally driven out of the local area.

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