Jiang Feng started the off-road vehicle.
"Xiaojin Hua, co here!"
Jiang Feng called out.
Hearing Jiang Feng’s words, the little Border Collie with bright white and golden fur ran over excitedly.
It knew this was a signal to go out.
White Wolf and the Mongolian Mastiff watched from not far away; one was a wild animal, not to be taken randomly, and the other was too small and didn’t like moving, so Jiang Feng only took Xiaojin Hua out.
He put two large bags full of cal wool on the back seat, and Xiaojin Hua sat on the front passenger seat.
Jiang Feng climbed onto the roof, secured the drone, and turned on the stable aerial photography mode.
Then he played a song "Blue Lotus" in the live broadcast room and drove the car, speeding across the prairie.
"Nothing can stop!"
"Your yearning for freedom!"
...
The song was lodious and lingering, and Jiang Feng turned off the microphone in the live broadcast room, leaving only the pure sound of music.
This season was the most beautiful ti on the prairie, with lush green everywhere and various small flowers blooming splendidly.
The song coupled with the scenery made the view even better.
The vehicle moved at a moderate speed on the dirt road.
The air conditioner was on, so it didn’t feel hot inside.
The viewers in the live broadcast room were imrsed in the beautiful scenery.
[It looks so free; others are living the life I want to live!]
[To hell with the 996 work culture, I want to go out and play too!]
[I can’t take it anymore; I want to see the scenery!]
[I, who love to stay ho, am fearless. Travel? It’s tiring and troubleso, why bother!]
Jiang Feng drove all the way into the depths of the prairie.
After driving for about twenty minutes, not long later, a slightly rundown red-brick flat house appeared ahead.
This was the place for processing cal wool, a small workshop.
The prairie herders had a lot of sheep wool and cal wool. Many herders made Mongolian robes or quilts and mattresses by coming to places like this.
At that ti, they could pile up the quilts and also host guests.
Jiang Feng parked the car, opened the passenger door, and let the little Border Collie out.
The little Border Collie imdiately jumped down and ran around on the surrounding grass, observed, and then returned to Jiang Feng’s side.
Two n in their fifties with dark skin and relatively slim figures looked at Jiang Feng with a smile from the factory.
They wore white hats and masks on their faces.
After all, workshops like this dealt with fur, and they often needed to take precautions while breathing in it.
The drone was brought down by Jiang Feng, and the audience in the broadcast room curiously took in everything in the workshop.
A feeling reminiscent of the late 80s and 90s hit them.
Jiang Feng talked to the workshop owner about the live broadcast, and the workshop owner readily agreed.
Then, Jiang Feng turned on the sound.
"This is the place where cal wool is processed. I ca at the right ti today; the machines are not busy, no need to queue, it can be processed right away."
Jiang Feng explained to everyone.
The workshop owner took Jiang Feng’s bag of cal wool, picked so up, and slled it.
Cleaned cal wool had a kind of fresh fragrance, and its texture was good, feeling soft and comfortable to the touch.
"Well cleaned."
The owner nodded and then took out the cal wool, laying it flat on a conveyor belt.
The audience watched the live broadcast intently.
They were very curious about how animal fur was turned into quilts.
Then the workshop owner started the machine.
The conveyor belt began to turn, the cal wool was pressed into the machine, and after so internal processing, not long after, fluffy cal wool began erging from the outlet.
The fluffed cal wool looked like brown cotton candy, expanding, soft, and incredibly even.
This scene was like a machine spitting out cotton candy.
"This is how the fluffed cal wool looks. Once compressed and secured, it can beco a quilt."
"Cal wool is a good material; the price of natural cal wool is quite high."
"Raising cals relies on cal wool to earn money."
Jiang Feng looked at the soft cal wool and said again.
[It was so ssy before, suddenly it becos fluffy!]
[Looks soft, making it into a quilt must be comfortable!]
[Products made from natural cal wool are very expensive, equivalent to high-end brands!]
[Host, send one too!]
Everyone joked.
After the cal wool was fluffed, the workshop owner weighed it.
Then Jiang Feng discussed the dinsions of the blanket and quilt he wanted to make.
Next, the workshop owner began processing the cal wool.
The subsequent process was all machine-handled.
The cal wool would be compressed consistently and filled into the quilt and blanket.
The outer layer would be fixed with a duvet cover, and the cal wool inside was solid, tight, and wouldn’t shift.
The production process took about two hours.
The sound of the machines working was incessant.
Next to the workshop was a tailoring shop where various patterned duvet covers could be chosen, and Jiang Feng selected a few.
Afterward, he was idle and began looking at the scenery outside, chatting with the online viewers.
The small workshop belonged to a herder’s household, with their main house at the back, and further inside was pasture land, raising so cattle and sheep.
Xiaojin Hua was playing with an adult shepherd dog owned by this family, who also kept a Mongolian Mastiff, looking very friendly.
"The yield of cal wool is quite high. Raising cals each year relies on earning big money from cal wool. The daily amount of cal milk is relatively small."
Jiang Feng told everyone.
As he said this, the netizens imdiately beca curious.
[Host, how much can you earn? Tell us!]
[Yeah, how much can cal hair sell for? Is it several thousand?]
[What’s the yield from a hundred cals?]
Seeing the barrage of comnts, Jiang Feng replied leisurely:
"Cal wool is a key raw material for luxury textiles and the market price is decent."
"Each kilogram of cal wool can bring around 50 yuan in profit for the herders."
"A mature cal can produce about three to four kilograms of cal wool, earning roughly 200 yuan each."
"With over a hundred cals, one shearing can net over 20,000 yuan."
"Little by little adds up to a lot."
At this point, Jiang Feng continued:
"Herders just earn a hard living, while the real money is made in clothing factories, slaughterhouses, dairy industries — these secondary processing sectors, once mature, money cos quickly."
"For us in breeding, the profits aren’t as high, but it’s stable."
Upon hearing this, the netizens nodded in agreent.
[Just over 20,000, that’s indeed not much for the host!]
[That’s already pretty good. I have a hard ti earning 20,000.]
[100 cals make around 100,000 a year from cal milk, cal wool, and cal at, you’d need three to four of those to break even.]
[The host’s cals are just for fun, cattle and sheep are the main earnings.]
Jiang Feng stroked the Little Border Collie, while looking around the workshop.
This workshop is quite worn, not as grand as city stores.
The yard is surrounded by brick walls, and the buildings inside are also sowhat dilapidated, with machines that have been used for an unknown length of ti.
Yet the business here is great; local herders co to them to make quilts.
Moreover, the prices are very low — good quality at a cheap price.
Jiang Feng waited idly, while Xiaojin Hua played around beside him.
Life here moves at a slow pace.
Sotis, he thinks, if technology wasn’t so advanced and people found joy outside electronic devices, everyone’s life pace would slow down, and happiness might increase.
But sadly, the country must develop, people are climbing uphill, inevitably feeling exhausted.
After two hours, Jiang Feng’s ordered quilt and five small blankets were ready.
These things would be quite expensive to buy outside, especially high-end brands, all worth over several thousand yuan.
But in the pastoral area, cal wool quilts are common; every household has them.
This is an advantage of geography.
"This is a cal wool quilt; it’s exceptionally warm, much warr than ordinary cotton quilts. Friends in the north who need one for winter can buy it online."
Jiang Feng explained to everyone.
[Host, could you make one and send it to ? I’ll pay for it.]
[The host is mistaken; the north has heating, so an average quilt is fine for winter, it’s the south that’s cold and needs a thick quilt!]
[You can even make quilts yourself, it’s truly a pastoral life!]
Everyone responded one after another.
With the cal wool quilts finished, Jiang Feng called Xiaojin Hua back, then started up the vehicle and returned to the pasture.
In the pasture, workers were still shearing cal wool.
The cals, having been shorn, walked comfortably on the grassland.
They no longer looked so furry, appearing much more vigorous.
Though their appearance sowhat declined.
Animals do look better when they’re fluffy.
The little ones on the farm began shedding too; the dogs were okay, but after the Little Fox had a bath that day, its fur started shedding faster.
The weather gradually turned hot and dry.
A few large sacks of cal wool were collected.
Jiang Feng started contacting clothing factories and tailor shops to inquire about the purchase price of cal wool.
Here, many middlen buy cal wool from the herders and sell them to clothing manufacturers.
But Jiang Feng has his connections, he can directly contact manufacturers and get a better price.
At this ti, Yang Maolin and Hadan along with a few others returned from grazing and filled the trough with water.
Lucky and Wealthy greeted Jiang Feng before going to drive the sheep.
Yang Maolin said to Jiang Feng:
"Boss, you could also open a clothing factory, sell quilts, down jackets, use our own wool."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Feng laughed:
"Opening a factory isn’t that easy, without experience, plenty have lost money."
"Let’s develop the pasture well first; if we do open a factory, the pasture must be stable for at least two years."
"It’s not like acting in a TV drama, becoming the world’s richest person in a year."
Hearing this, Yang Maolin nodded in agreent:
"True, many lose money from opening factories, I know a few myself."
"But you’re different, your popularity is so high, you’d definitely be fine. Popularity is precious now, and those big online celebrities in the grasslands are living well."
Jiang Feng simply smiled, "No need. This account will only stream daily life on the grasslands."
"Stable developnt of our pasture is quite good."
He looked into the distance.
Sheep drank water, dogs tended to the sheep, cats rested, and the foxes played.
Also there were Little Donkey strolling, the big boar constantly searching for sothing to eat.
Each day, these little companions were with him.
This pasture, he was already very content with.
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