"You must have over two thousand jin here, right? The other boat should have about as much, shouldn't it?" A-Cai rubbed his hands together excitedly.
"Not that much. There are some miscellaneous fish mixed in that I haven't picked out. I'll take them back and sort them as we gut them."
"Huh? You're taking all of it back to dry? Seriously? There's so much! You brought back two or three times your usual catch today. Isn't there still a huge pile drying on that patch of open ground? These two boatloads must weigh three or four thousand jin. If the stuff at the small workshop hasn't been taken down yet, where will you hang all this?"
Thinking it over, Ye Yaodong agreed. The catch at the small workshop probably wouldn't be dry enough to take down until tomorrow. The full day of rain two days ago had held things up, and a huge amount still wouldn't dry today. With so much here, there simply wasn't room to hang it all.
There were also his two brothers' catches. They had agreed long ago that whenever it didn't rain, they would save their catches for him to take back.
No wonder the fellow had been so eager to come right up and greet him today. Had he already thought it through and set his sights on his catch?
"All right, then. I'll leave both my boatloads with you today and take Eldest Brother's and Second Brother's catches back to dry."
Their catches probably weren't as big as his. Keeping theirs should be about enough.
"Good, good. I'll help take some pressure off you. Otherwise, you won't finish gutting them, and with nowhere to dry them, they'll easily go bad." With that, he called the others down below over to help lift and