From Lin Zeng's mouth, Guan Xudong learned that in the strange pocket of poplar catkins on the poplar tree, there was a special plush that could be used as a warm material. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He found the direction of his future business, rushed to the poplar tree that was still being watched by the crowd, and bought a bag of light warm velvet from a middle-aged sanitation worker at a price of 100 yuan.

He took the bag home, which was not light, and ran back to the bedroom with this strange-colored bag, without saying hello to his parents who were having dinner.

The utility knife was sharp, the tip of the knife cut through the pocket seal, Guan Xudong felt that there was white fluff, coming out of the incision, a bit like a bitten sesame rice ball, the sesame filling is about to flow out, but the filling of this flower rice ball is white velvet.

As the incision gets shorter and shorter, a light warm pile of white velvet is squeezed out of the incision.

When the incision was about twelve or thirteen centimeters long, the white velvet that was extruded finally broke the strange pocket.

The strange pocket naturally splits in two along the incision.

A huge white pom-pom ball appeared on the floor of his bedroom, larger than the yoga ball in the gym.

Guan Xudong looked at this ball of plush balls in a daze, and he didn't know what to do.

If it weren't for the fact that he saw many sanitation workers today, putting the cleaned poplar catkins into their pockets one by one, and then being raised into the canopy of poplar trees, even if he said that he couldn't believe that this huge plush ball that was completely white and flawless was transformed from useless poplar catkins in just half an hour.

His fingers pinched a pinch of the white pom-pom and pulled it out.

The state of this plush mass is not the same as the fluttering poplar catkins. Even if the poplar catkins are squeezed together, they are still loose, and when they are blown by the strong wind, they will drift around again. But this white down, which feels as soft as fine feathers, is more like the structure of cotton, and between the plushs, a sticky force is naturally formed, sticking together, and ordinary wind strength cannot blow them away.

Guan Xudong tore hard a few times before separating a small ball of pom-poms into this large pile of fluff. With one breath, he tore off several clumps of fluff.

He carefully observed the structure of these small fluffy balls, and found that they were actually made up of clusters of fan-shaped fine velvet, and no matter how much he squeezed, these small fluffy balls quickly regained their original fluffy feeling.

Can this peculiar plush substance really have an excellent warmth effect, as the young man who bought it said?

Guan Xudong estimated the weight of his goose down jacket coat, pulled out the same amount of white down from the big pompom, then put it in a shopping bag, and began to contact a friend on WeChat.

This friend of his is a young fashion designer. Two years after graduation, he ran an original clothing design store with ancient characteristics on the Internet, mainly dealing in modern and improved antique clothes, which sold well on the Internet and was very popular with customers.

"Ah Liu, are you free these days? I got a special material, can you help me make a padded jacket, or the structure of the down jacket can also be, according to the price you designed. ”

Guan Xudong's friend happily agreed, asking Guan Xudong to send the materials to her studio tomorrow.

Pattern making, material selection, cutting, threading......

Guan Xudong nested directly in his friend Liu Xin's studio, watching this men's ready-to-wear freshly baked.

This is a retro-style cardigan men's cotton garment, the selected fabric, the feel is excellent natural cotton and linen, it looks atmospheric and elegant, and there is a bit of rare antiquity. The method of directly stuffing fluff in Jiang Hua is different, Liu Xin chose to make the white velvet into a thick fabric with cotton first, and then put it into the cotton clothes.

However, it is a pity that the fluff stuffed inside this padded jacket is according to the weight of the down jacket, so the appearance looks a little bloated, but fortunately it is a Chinese design, which avoids the feeling of bulkiness, but looks calm and atmospheric.

"Okay!" Liu Xin carefully ironed the cotton clothes and handed them to Guan Xudong. She and Guan Xudong are high school classmates, and the two have a good relationship, and they can be regarded as friends who can talk to each other on weekdays. She has three-dimensional facial features, deep eye sockets, curled eyelashes, and looks like a mixed-race child.

Compared with Guan Xudong, who has not yet found his career direction, Liu Xin is dedicated to research, and now the studio and online store are thriving, and he has an industry without relying on his parents.

"Thank you!" Guan Xudong took the clothes, couldn't wait to put his hand into the sleeve, and two seconds later, he put it on his body. This dress was originally designed according to his body shape.

"How is it?" Liu Xin asked curiously, sorting out the broken fabrics on the sewing machine, looking at Guan Xudong, who was motionless in front of the full-length mirror.

"Too ...... It's hot. Guan Xudong suddenly felt that the amount of white velvet he chose seemed to be a mistake. Even the warmest down coat in his own house, wearing it in this season will not make his head sweat hot and his back wet in less than a minute.

He hurriedly took off the Chinese-style cotton coat.

"Is it really that hot?" asked Liu Xin, a little disbelieving.

"Why don't you wear it. Guan Xudong is very sure that this light warm velvet from willow catkins is really worthy of the word "warm" in its name.

Since the owner of the clothes agreed, Liu Xin was also curious to put this Chinese-style cotton coat on herself. Before she could button it, she couldn't wait to take it off, wiped the fine sweat on her forehead, shook her head and said: "This material you brought, the warmth effect is very good, we should have reduced the amount of plush just now, this weight, should be able to make at least three such coats." It will also appear lighter. ”

If Guan Xudong knew that he would be able to make ten pieces of light warm wool for the weight of cotton clothes, and stuff them into one piece of clothing, he would probably want to dismantle this dress.

But at the moment, Guan Xudong doesn't plan to demolish it.

He transferred the labor cost of this cotton coat to Liu Xin and said, "I'll bring some fluff later, and I'll make a few clothes for my parents and my parents." Put a third first, ah, forget it, put a fifth of the material. ”

"Where are you going?" Liu Xin nodded in agreement, but looking at Guan Xudong's posture holding cotton clothes, he asked casually.

"Go to the fat man, his family does import and export frozen seafood, there is a large freezer at minus 20 degrees, I went to see what kind of temperature this dress can hold. Guan Xudong turned around and said to her, hugged his clothes, and began to call his other friend.

Guan Xudong now wants to know how much cold the thick cotton coat can keep warm.

However, his question was destined to be answered in a short period of time.

He was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, standing in a friend's cold freezer at minus 20 degrees, still feeling warm in his palms, not cold at all. Next to him were piles of frozen prawns in the open sea, flounder and other seafood, and the fat man dressed in a ball looked at Guan Xudong, who was only wearing a cotton coat, and shouted:

"Dongzi, your clothes are so good, bring me one, no, several, I will go back to my hometown in the Northeast this spring, so I don't need three layers inside and three layers outside. ”

Is the processing of useless poplar wool into a useful light warm velvet the real function of the plant recycling station?

Guan Xudong can imagine that when this kind of light warm velvet is well known, the poplar tree, which is tall and beautiful, will change from "worthless" and "troublesome" to "high profit" and "high return" in the eyes of the public, and no longer need experts to shout in the media, and strive to tell the public that an adult poplar tree can absorb 172 kg of carbon dioxide, release 125 kg of oxygen, and retain 16 kg of dust a year.

In the eyes of everyone, it has become a source of wealth linked to money, which is loved by everyone, and the benefits brought by recycling poplar catkins make people smile.

Guan Xudong tugged at the corners of his mouth, threw this thought behind him, and then smiled and pulled the fat man who was round like a ball, and said loudly: "Fatty, go, brother, please go and celebrate that we have found our entrepreneurial goal." ”