Will the tide turn?
The man at a stall in the wet market in Wuhan held the snake tight in his left hand and swung down his machete on its head. The head was cut but was not severed from the body. The customer standing in front of him shook his head, said something in Chinese, and walked away.
“Why did the customer leave in a huff,” Eldhose Varghese, a quartermaster on a cruise vessel, who had been watching all that had been happening, asked the Chinese man standing beside him.
The man replied something in Chinese but Eldhose who has been around the world several times did not get it.