Rebirth 84, starting from fish farming

During the farm TV news, Liu Li stood in front of the gate of the dairy factory and talked eloquently, interviewing Zhao Huaian as a reporter and detailing the farm's dairy farming policy. Lu Changhua and Hu Dagui were sitting in the duty room watching the news.

"I'll wipe this cow!"

Lu Changhua will also smile heartily.

"You kid doesn't learn well!"

"Hey, she said cows are interesting, just right."

It is not only Hu Dagui but also Lao Cheng who feels this way.

He squinted at home, stared at Liu Li on the TV, and swallowed.

What a cow!

All the Lu family's geese were killed and their velvet was plucked.

Forty-seven bags were packed, each bag weighing a pound.

It was piled on the floor of the duty room.

"Changhua, what are you going to do with this goose down?"

"I want to make a cotton coat and pants."

"Will this thing work?"

Hu Dagui looked at the thick cotton-padded jacket he was wearing, and then at the goose down bags piled on the ground.

"Isn't this thing cold?"

"Not cold."

It's snowing heavily today, so Lu Changhua decided to deliver fish early tomorrow morning to avoid poor visibility at night.

Only then did he have the opportunity to watch TV with Hu Dagui.

As soon as the news ended, Lu Changhua got up and went to the warm pool.

Hu Dagui also followed.

Xiong Bao, Mo Bao and Taxue were all covered in thick hair and watched their surroundings vigilantly.

Now Mo Bao and Taxue are taller and stronger, but Xiong Bao has become the smallest one.

But they still followed Lu Changhua's side in an orderly manner according to the previously arranged seating arrangement.

The plastic greenhouse of the warm pool has been covered with thick quilts.

It was already 20 degrees below zero outside, and the two people and the three dogs walked into the duty room of Nuanchi, breathing white air.

As soon as we entered the corridor, a wave of hot air hit us.

Lu Changhua stomped the snow on his feet, and the three Xiong Bao brothers were also shaking their snow-covered dog hair in the corridor.

Hearing the door open, Dahong's wife came up from the basement.

"Hey, the boss is here?"

"Well, let's take a look."

Lu Changhua also walked down to the basement.

Inside, a large brick furnace was burning roaringly, and the wood in the furnace was licked by the flames.

"How's the situation?"

"It's pretty good, the pumping power is quite strong, but it just wastes firewood."

"Are you running out of firewood?"

"No, just to burn it like this, four big stoves would require at least a dozen loads of wood."

"Just go haul firewood in the next few days."

Walking out of the basement, they checked the conditions of the other furnaces one by one.

"What's the temperature like now?"

"The indoor temperature of the warm pool is a bit high, 289 degrees, while the water temperature is only 20 degrees."

"How's the fish?"

"It's okay, quite active."

"Is feeding normal?"

"normal."

"Come on, let's go take a look."

Several people entered the warm pool again and walked around the warm pool along the thick walls.

With the weak light, I could only see the road clearly, and the water surface was shimmering.

Occasionally, koi can be seen swimming in the water, but there is very little movement in the water, so they must be resting.

Lu Changhua pulled up the thermometer in the water and looked at it. It was about 20 degrees.

The water pump also stopped at night, and occasionally you could hear the sound of koi turning over and swimming in the water, making splashes of water.

After checking around, they left.

Back in the duty room, Lu Changhua told Hu Dagui to find a few cars to go to the forest farm tomorrow to pull firewood together, and asked for more.

Just in case there is no firewood before spring begins.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements tomorrow."

Hu Dagui is now able to take charge of his own business.

"I can rest assured that you will do your job.

The wood is stacked nearby to facilitate the heating and burning of the stove."

"Why."

Conveyed these.

I tidied up and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, Lu Changhua carried the ice and walked across the ice.

The ice layer is not very thick at the moment.

He made a hole in the ice not far from the shore.

It didn't take much effort, and the big carp jumped out one after another.

Since his fishing skill can be used once a week, he will use it whenever the time is up.

The purpose is to increase proficiency and upgrade as soon as possible.

If not, it doesn't matter. If you dig a hole in the ice, the big carp can jump out on its own. It's just a matter of how much.

At this moment, more than thirty carp jumped out. Hu Dagui quickly threw the big carps into the bucket, and their bodies, which had just been frozen hard, slowed down again.

Lu Changhua usually digs two holes in the ice to basically meet his delivery needs.

He put these big carps into the water tank.

The big carp is jumping around again.

A wooden board was placed above the water tank, and a dozen bags of goose down were tied to it.

Lu Changhua wandered into the city.

After entering the courtyard, I first unloaded the goose down, and then started unloading the fish.

"What is this? Cotton?"

Mom looked at these soft and light things and squeezed them with her hands.

"Haha, Mom, this is good stuff, goose down."

"What can this thing do?"

"I can make cotton-padded jackets, cotton trousers, quilts, mattresses, etc., but they will keep me warm."

"See what you can do. How did you know?"

My mother sneered at this statement, because cotton is still real. Why is goose down not goose down? Who are you fooling?!

Lu Changhua didn't say much, tied up the goose feathers again, and drove off.

"Shall we leave after dinner?"

"Don't eat, I still have something to do."

Mother Lu knew that her son had a busy day and never had a moment of idleness, so she let him go.

Lu Changhua drove to Qidao Street, where there was a small clothing factory.

This is run by the street, mainly to provide employment for unemployed young people.

They usually produce military green and sky blue four-pocket imitation military uniforms and imitation police uniforms.

Lu Changhua got in touch with them a few days ago.

He wants to make cotton-padded clothes.

It’s just that this cotton jacket is a bit special.

The material is not cotton, but goose down.

Today he brought some goose down and asked them to experiment and see if they could make it.

The jeep parked in the compound of the Red Star Garment Factory.

When the doorman saw that it was the boss who had been here a few days ago, he looked at it and retreated into the duty room.

Lu Changhua walked into the office.

This is a bungalow.

As soon as he entered the factory director's office, the skinny old factory director stood up wearing a military coat.

"Comrade Xiao Lu, you are really here!"

"Director Sun, didn't we agree?"

"What goose down did you bring?"

"Bring it here, in the car."

Factory Manager Sun followed Lu Changhua out and called a few workers to come over and unload the goose down.

Then he said: "Let's go to the chief engineer's office first and let Liu Gong take a look."

The workers moved all the goose down to the general engineer's office.

"Liu Gong, look at this goose down."

Director Sun pointed at these bags.

"Let me see."

Liu Gong opened the bag, and small fluff came out from inside.

He took out a handful and looked at it in his hand.

With a gentle blow, it floats up.

"Oh, what a good thing!"

Liu Gong looked at the goose down floating in the air and said.

"Liu Gong, I suggest making goose down jackets and goose down trousers. Do you think this will work?"

"you say."

"The tail of goose down is very sharp. If the fabric is not dense, it will stick out and cause flying velvet. So I think it should be made with lining, and the goose down jacket should be used as the liner, and a jacket should be put on the outside. The trousers should be made into pairs.

Layers of fabric, what do you think?"

"Well, you can try it."

"It is different from ordinary cotton clothes. It is made of cotton. You can lay the cotton and then put it on the machine to route the threads. However, this goose down is too light and will run away if it is blown slightly. Therefore, I suggest sewing out the horizontal strips first and then sewing them in.

Fill it with down, then seal it, and then sew the vertical stitches.”

"Well, this is a way."

"Let's experiment in the workshop first."

That's how it's settled.

Lu Changhua first put down a deposit of 100 yuan.

Let them measure their own size and conduct experiments according to this size.

In fact, Liu Gong has seen down jackets before.

Jiangxi and Jiangsu are the processing bases for down jackets.

It's just that down jackets are now exclusively for export and are rarely seen in domestic shopping malls.

A week later, when Lu Changhua delivered fish to the store, his mother said that someone from the clothing factory called today and said that samples had come out and asked him to take a look.

When he came to lead the Red Star Garment Factory, there was a down jacket hanging in the chief engineer's office.

To keep warm, the cuffs of down jackets are elasticated.

The inner bag is tied with horizontal and vertical stitches using a sewing machine.

Every piece is bulging.

"Xiao Lu, this outfit of yours took a lot of effort. It took a dozen of us a week to make it. Can you see if it works?"

"That's great. Liugong, what kind of fabric is this?"

"This is nylon cloth. We transferred some from Harbin."

Lu Changhua looked at these rough down jackets and felt very satisfied.

He knew that the Red Star Garment Factory was definitely not professional in making down jackets. It had neither drawings, professional personnel, nor professional equipment.

But under such difficult conditions, it is possible to do it and do it well, which is amazing.

"It would be better if the fabric of this jacket had a waterproof coating."

This is what Lu Changhua had in mind.

Even if such fabrics are available now, they are probably expensive.

It's unclear whether it can be imported or not.

"Haha, the material you mentioned does exist, it's called coated nylon anti-flannel, but it's very expensive."

"Then forget it, just do this a few times."

Lu Changhua took his mother and father here again, measured their sizes, and made several sets.

According to Liugong’s current usage, the total amount of goose down in a set of clothes and pants totals 800 grams.

When Lu Changhua returned home, he had already put on a customized goose down jacket.

This goose down jacket is quite bulky when I put it on.

Because the fluffiness of goose down is very good, it will expand to a large area just a little bit.

Although he took off his heavy cotton jacket and trousers, he still felt that his hands and feet were not very flexible. Well, he will need to put less goose down in the future. Putting more goose down is not a good thing.

As he drove and pondered, a bold idea grew in his mind.

If you could make goose down jackets yourself and export them to Soviet Russia further north, wouldn't you make a fortune?

This is the fantasy in his heart.

Now he wants nothing, and wanting to export goose down jackets is nothing more than a daydream.