I can’t explain what he is doing, but I doubt it is a robbery. As after picking the stuff, there is a brief interaction between them. Maybe he is getting his ticket to board the train.

In Chinese, we usually read out a date with year first, month latter and days after it. For example, if it’s 4/6/1989 , we would say 一九八九年六月四日 (year 1989, June, day 4). I think there’s not any relation with date format we use.