"Unlucky? What do you mean?"
Hou Yong asked Boss Zhou in a low voice. Boss Zhou looked up at the calendar hanging on the wall and whispered to him, "These 'Er Zhuan Zi' (half-breeds/middlemen) are quite a headache. You see, they live on our side, but they follow a hell of a lot of their own rules. The Russians absolutely refuse to trade on Wednesdays, and according to local customs, they won't release goods on the fifth day of the lunar month either. It’s all very complicated."
Hou Yong felt he had learned something new. He glanced at the tear-off calendar on the wall; today was Tuesday. No wonder Old Yang had said tomorrow was off-limits for trading.
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