I
never did find out why that in Spain, any work that's difficult,
lengthy, tricky or thankless is called 'Work Of The Chinese' The photo
below is one of the examples.
A
bank in Sichuan, China, received recently a whole bag of cut-up, 100
Yuan denominated bills totalling in the value of 50,000 Yuans from a
desperate man, begging the entity to 'Do something about it', helping
him in whatever way to recover the worth. He explained that his wife,
in a fit of fury and hysteria during a quarrel, had used a pair of
scissors cutting up the bank notes into smithereens, the total saving
of his whole life time.
The bank put the hands of most employees at work - the authentic 'Work of the Chinese'. In the first 6 hours they had merely managed putting together just one whole bill ... if you multiply by 6 hours for the remaining 499 bills ... !!! Even though, the work gets slightly easier along the way when more bills are put back together. This got to be the world's most complicated puzzle.
If
I understand correctly, as long as 3 quarters of a torn bill showing
the numbers that are usually at both ends, the note is by law accepted
as valid. Hope it's so in China too. Especially for the poor man. I
reckon the silly wife well deserves a little more prolonged anxiety.
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