Chapter 782: Precautions taken in advance

He didn't know if it had been covered in time and if it had been heavily rained on.

The rain was so heavy at sea earlier; he wondered if the rain in the village was heavy?

After the fishing boat docked, the rain was only a light drizzle. He directly told his father on the neighboring boat to take his eldest cousin and Brother Asheng to unload the cargo from the two boats first, while he went to see how the dried fish and squid were doing and if they had been affected.

It rained today, and they came back early, so the amount of squid caught wasn't much, only about half of yesterday's.

This kind of weather was no longer suitable for drying; it would be better to sell it directly, which was simpler and safer.

He would just leave it to his father to handle. Besides, he saw that there were quite a few people coming and going at the pier, with baskets of cargo everywhere, and he would have to wait a while to queue for weighing.

If he went home to check and then came back, they would probably still be queuing.

Ye Fu waved his hand, "Fine, I'll watch here. You go check on those dried fish. This isn't rice, so it's okay. A little rain won't hurt. When the sun comes out, just dry them."

"Mm, I'll go check first."

The key was that he didn't know when it would be sunny. If it continued to be cloudy and rainy for a few days, then it would be over; everything would stink and be ruined.

Ye Yaodong climbed down from the boat, brought Lin Guangyuan along, and sent him home to take a shower first.

Then he walked toward the shore in the light rain, squeezing past baskets of squid, and was recognized by the villagers.

He was now a celebrity in the village. When the villagers saw him, they all wanted to pull him aside to say a few words to express their enthusiasm. One by one, they were all happy, pulling him to talk, all speaking at once.

"A-Dong is back too?"

"How was the harvest today? You came back early because of the rain today, so the harvest must be less, right? Everyone's harvest is less today."

"In this weather, there's no way to dry anything..."

"Sigh... what about the squid and dried fish you're drying at the entrance and the open space?"

"They won't dry. How can they dry in this weather? Oh my, what a waste. If it rains for several days, they'll all stink..."

"Yeah, if it rains for many days, they'll stink. Oh my, how much money will be lost? I saw that the open space over there is full, and your entrance is also full, several thousand jin."

"I heard that you killed several thousand jin of fish overnight yesterday. My god, how much money is that? You really have money to burn, tossing it around here. And now, look, you didn't earn the money, and it's all gone down the drain..."

"It's still better for us. We sell it as soon as we catch it, and the money is directly in our hands without any tossing. If you don't toss it well, and toss it again, who knows how much money you'll lose? What you earn isn't enough to cover the losses. It's too pitiful. Money really burns a hole in your pocket to be doing this..."

"Yeah, yeah, it's better for us. No risk, and we sell it directly when we get back. Oh my, all that cargo will lose several thousand yuan. My god, the whole family will have to pay it back..."

Ye Yaodong's face turned black as he listened. The first few questions were quite normal and could be considered concern for his situation, but the more they said later, the less they hoped for his well-being.

Nothing had even happened yet, and just a few drops of rain made them say he would lose several thousand, that he would lose everything, and that even his family's foundation would be lost. What kind of talk was that?

Sure enough, people fear fame, and pigs fear being fat.

Usually, when they saw him doing well, red-hot and prosperous, all the monsters and ghosts would crowd around to say nice things. But as soon as something happened, the wind direction changed faster than anything. Nothing had even happened yet, and the cold remarks were poured directly into his ears.

"I don't need you to worry about it. It's just a few drops of rain, not rice. This isn't the rainy season; it'll clear up in a day or two."

"If it rains for a few days? Don't talk about my dried fish stinking; you'll also lose over a hundred yuan a day, and some even several hundred. If it rains for a few more days, half of your income will be gone. Are you really hoping for rain every day?"

He retorted unpleasantly and squeezed out of the crowd.

Behind him, everyone started whispering again, shifting their target to cursing the heavens.

"That's right, a day of rain is a day of loss. When the waves get big and we can't go out to sea, everything will be in vain."

"It's inconvenient to do anything on a rainy day. Everyone is counting on the fishing season to earn money."

"Damn heavens, why couldn't it rain at another time? Why did it have to rain now..."

"Don't talk about going out to sea, even the roads are impassable. Damn it, I don't know why it couldn't wait until after the fishing season to rain, damn heavens."

"It's just so annoying. It rains now, this coffin-born brat... why couldn't it not rain last week and choose this time?"

"Still have to pray for it to clear up quickly..."

Ye Yaodong didn't care what the people behind him were saying and walked forward on his own. He didn't avoid the puddles unless they were large, in which case he would walk around the edge.

This broken road was really too bad, full of potholes and mud. Even wearing rain boots, his legs were splattered with mud. Fortunately, his body was already dirty and had been wet for a long time.

After walking closer, he saw that the top of the small workshop was covered with a large piece of transparent nylon bag, and he felt relieved. With something covering it and the bottom being ventilated, it should be fine for two or three days.

"Back?" his brother-in-law crawled out of the small workshop and said.

"Just docked and came over. Was the rain heavy at home today? When did it start? Did the dried fish and squid get rained on? When did you go borrow the nylon to cover it?"

Ye Yaodong asked a barrage of questions as soon as he saw his brother-in-law, and then walked into the small workshop.

The nylon bag on the roof wasn't a complete large roll, but several pieces pieced together to cover the top. The water at the edges was still flowing down to the bottom.

Seeing him looking at where the water was flowing, his brother-in-law explained as he walked, "This whole piece of nylon bag isn't big enough, so I just pieced a few pieces together to cover it. I just moved the dried fish that were drying to avoid the edges as much as possible, so the water wouldn't drip on them. By the way, I poked the accumulated water on the top in some places and poured it outside."

"Sorry to trouble you. You have to keep watching it. Wherever there's a lot of accumulated water on the top, you have to use a stick to prop it up to prevent it from collapsing."

"It's what I should do. It started raining around two o'clock earlier. At first, it was just a drizzle. After lunch, Lin Xiuqing saw that the sky was overcast and looked like it was about to rain, so she went to the village committee to call her in-laws and asked them to help borrow more nylon bags, and then she propped them up to cover it in advance."

"It was also prepared in advance. By the time we propped up all the nylon bags, it was already drizzling. Fortunately, we did it in time, and these things didn't get rained on. Maybe when the water accumulated on the top of the nylon bag flowed down, some of it got a little wet."

"It was also drizzling at home all the time, sometimes big, sometimes small. Later, it rained a little, but it wasn't very heavy. It's okay, right?"

The two of them walked while looking up at the top. In some places, the accumulated water made it heavier.

"That's good, as long as it was prepared in advance. Although it doesn't affect the dried fish much if they get rained on a little, as long as it clears up quickly and they are dried thoroughly, it's fine. But dried fish that have been rained on will always be a little worse; it's definitely not as good as being dried directly in the sun."

His brother-in-law smiled and nodded, "Yes, it's definitely better to dry quickly in the sun."

"Seeing that it was raining earlier, after covering these up, your two sisters-in-law went home first. Thinking that it was raining, there shouldn't be any need to dry squid today, and they had nothing to do, just sitting around, so they went home to check."

"The children are at home alone, so let their grandparents come over occasionally to check. I don't know if they are obedient or not. They went home to check and will come back tomorrow when it clears up."

"It's okay, if there's something at home, go back and check. It's as it should be. There's really nothing to do today."

Ye Yaodong strolled around the small workshop, and by the way, touched the dried fish and squid that were newly dried last night, as well as those dried the day before yesterday.

Those dried just last night, after a night, and today with no sun and rain, didn't look much different; they were about the same as when they were just killed.

The batch dried the day before yesterday had already felt a bit dry last night, but today, touching them again, they felt soft. They hadn't been rained on, but the humid air had an effect.

It still had to be sunny. Without the sun, they would be ruined if they were dried for a few days.

"Don't know when the sun will come out." After coming out, he looked at the sky and said.

"That's hard to say..."

"If only there was a machine to dry it directly."

"Hehe, how can we afford that?"

"I was just saying. Who knows if we can afford it in this lifetime? You watch it here, I'm going to the pier first. The boat just docked, and the cargo hasn't been sold yet. I have to go out again to see."

"Alright, alright, go ahead and get busy."

Ye Yaodong shook his clothes that were sticking to his body, hesitating whether to go home and change? He thought about it and decided against it.

He didn't know if this weather would last for two or three days. If he didn't have clothes to change into, anyway, he would be able to go home and take a shower in a little while, so he would just wear them for now.

He casually ruffled his crew cut, water droplets splattered everywhere, and then, braving the drizzle, he hurried back toward the outside of the pier.

On the way, there were also people who had finished selling their cargo and were pushing their carts back. Their words were all about cursing the rainy day.

On this straight road to the pier, only the area in front of the newly built Tianhou Temple was slightly better, as it had been leveled with mud and sand and wasn't muddy.

When Ye Yaodong walked to this flat area, he even stopped to scrape and rub the yellow mud off the soles of his shoes, to avoid his shoes feeling like they were hanging ten jin of lead weights.

By the way, he looked up at the magnificent Tianhou Temple on the side.

During this period, the tiles of the Tianhou Temple had already been laid. It was just waiting for an auspicious day to take Mazu on a parade and patrol the seaside before it could officially move in.

He heard his mother mention a few days ago that it seemed to be waiting until after the fishing season, then pick a good day, and all the villagers would work together to make it grand. They planned to parade through the ten miles and eight villages, and even planned to parade to the town before officially moving into the palace.

The small statue had been worshipped in advance, and it enjoyed incense every day. Some anxious villagers from other villages had already invited it back and invited it onto their boats. ===== CHAPTER 783 =====