In Order To Make More Money, Xinjiang Is Racing Against Time To Pick Cotton.

At 10 a.m. on September 11th, the sun was shining on the top of the head, but a gust of wind swept through the dust and sand. The 121 regiment 7 has thousands of acres of cotton fields, but to get there it has to go through a desert.

　 A flower picker is responsible for 10 mu of land.

　　 Xinjiang From the regimental fort town to the 7 link, there are more than 20 kilometres, but it is not accessible to buses. The reporter took the cotton field owner Han Jianjun's ride, wandering in the desert for half an hour before he arrived at the 7 cotton field.

After walking through this desolate desert, the cotton field with a glimpse of the edge and the scenery just formed a completely different style. A lot of cotton fields are separated by a few rows of corn every seventy or eighty acres, and many flower pickups bend over to pick flowers in the ground. Han Jianjun has more than 3000 acres of cotton fields here. He picked up more than 100 people from the mainland this year. Plus the machine picked cotton part, an average flower picker was responsible for 10 acres of land.

Han Jianjun's cotton field has to walk 2 kilometers to the center of the entire 7 cotton field. There are many flower pickers here, but they scattered more than 100 flower pickers in large tracts, but they could not see that there were so many people here.

The cotton was weighed in kilograms.

The sunshine of Xinjiang is different from that of the inland cities. The sunlight reflected from the leaves of cotton is somewhat dazzling. At 1 noon, the strongest light is dizzy. Many of the parcel pickup workers are pouring the cotton in the bag from their backpack into the big bag on the ground. In a moment, these originally shrunken sacks were packed into a cylinder by newly picked cotton, and the cylinder with a diameter of 1.6 meter meters can be seen everywhere in the field.

Pick up flower worker Ding Meixia said that this bag usually has fifty or sixty Jin. "So big a bag is more than fifty or sixty Jin?" the reporter questioned. Ding Meixia seriously said: "the Xinjiang people weigh the kilogram according to the kilogram, they say here one kilogram is inland one kilogram, half Jin is what we often say one jin, we now habitually follow them to say." In this way, almost every flower picker takes a day. pick cotton The weight is above 100 Jin, and the fast hand can take more than more than 100 kilograms.

　　 It's very conscious not to rush to pick cotton.

Han Jianjun gave the florist the price of 1.7 yuan a kilogram, the bag eats and lodge. At 2 p.m., it was time to pick up the florist. There were several food tractors on the dirt road in the field, and the pickup began to gather in the shade or the shed at the edge.

Lunch is very simple. Noodles or simple stir fry and steamed bread can be served. Picking up the flowers, the horse smiled and said, "our food is the best. You see, there are eggs, tomatoes and vermicelli in the noodles." A horse eats too fast and can't get another bowl. The quality of the meal is not important for the flower picker, but it is very important to eat enough.

After eating second bowls, Ma came to a large glass of water. His water cup was so big that he could pour all the water in a 5 pound thermos bottle, and the water cups of other pickups were also similar to those of him. Ma Erwai said, "when the water is full, we will have to work until it is dark." After pouring the water and carrying the cup, he went down again, and many of the flower pickups went down. They did not take a nap, nor did they sit at the local chatter. They spent less than an hour eating from beginning to end, and no one urged them. Ma Erwai said, "we can make more money if we pick up more points. Everyone's idea is actually very simple."

From Han Jianjun's cotton field It's already 8 o'clock in the evening at the fort town, but it's still on. It's like four or five p.m. in Xi'an. The pickup workers in the cotton field still bend over and pick up cotton. Most of them have to wait until 10 o'clock in the evening to finish the day's work.