Stick #66: When It Rains, It Pours (Unfavorable)
旧患未除新患来,屋漏连夜雨频催。先堵漏洞再前行,急缓有序免再灾。
Plain reading
The old trouble is not healed and the new trouble arrives — like a leaking roof under endless rain. Plug the leaks before moving forward; order urgent and slow tasks lest disaster repeat.
Interpretation
This is an unfavorable lot titled "When It Rains, It Pours." Old harm uncured, new harm arriving — holes must be stopped first. "Plug leaks before advancing; order by urgency" shows repair comes before travel.
Advice
List every "leak" — unpaid debt, broken equipment, unsettled quarrel — and stop them by urgency. Open no new business until old harm is cleared.
From Du Fu: "No dry place by the bed as roof leaks" — even the poet knew to cover his head first — in linked disaster, protect the foundation.