I hurriedly took out the document from my purse and put it on the table, the middle-aged lady opened it and looked at it, smiled and asked me: "It turns out that it is Deputy Director Tian, are you from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province?"

"That's right, when I arrived in Bangkok the day before yesterday," I tried to put on a decent posture, "mainly because I wanted to exchange Buddhist experiences with Thai friends under the leadership of Mr. Huang." It doesn't matter if you can't let me attend the dinner, I'll be here for nothing. ”

The middle-aged lady hurriedly said: "No problem, you can participate, the participants of our Chinese Chamber of Commerce are from all walks of life, as long as they are young elites, they can participate in the dinner, please sign here." I wrote my name in the sign-in book, left a business card as a memo, and followed Huang Chengcheng into the venue.

The venue is not large, but the scene is very beautiful, just like the decoration of those temples in Thailand, mainly gold and white, magnificent, with a long table in the center, full of fruits, seafood and all kinds of hot and cold food, two lobsters nearly one meter long, and a lot of drinks and drinks, very rich. My saliva was about to come out, and I really wanted to take out my mobile phone to take pictures so that I could take them back to show off, but when I saw dozens of participants talking and chatting in low voices, not even looking at the screen of their mobile phones, how could I use my mobile phone to take pictures? There were many people who knew Huang Chengcheng and greeted each other, and Huang Chengxin introduced me to these people, and I deliberately performed the Buddha prayer with one hand in order to distinguish it from the Southeast Asian people's folded hands.

Most of the participants in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce are Chinese, but there are also many Thai people, most of whom know Chinese, and during the introduction, I learned that there are not only many business people here (to put it bluntly, the owners of various businesses in Bangkok), but also the political and artistic circles, such as singers, painters, musicians, actors and film directors.

After the people arrived, a vice president of the chamber of commerce spoke, it turned out that only a small number of these sixty or seventy people were members, and most of them were friends of the members, which could be regarded as joining in the fun, and maybe they might all be probationary members in the future, who would not want to have more elites in their own group? After the speech, each guest would introduce himself, and it turned out that there were reporters, doctors, teachers, writers, and engineers, which were quite complete.

When I was introduced, Huang Chengcheng was probably afraid that I would show his stuff, so he rushed to introduce me, and everyone applauded and welcomed me as usual. In the subsequent introductions, there are two lay people of Buddhism in Southeast Asia, one is called Azan Ka, a Laotian, and the other is called Azam Pothan, who is Burmese. I know that the practitioners of Buddhism in Southeast Asia are what we commonly call Azan, but I have never heard of these two people, let alone whether they are dressed in black or white. Azan Ka is of medium build, quite thin, dark-skinned, with short hair and flat head, and wears black clothes. Azambudan is slightly taller, about forty years old, but he is handsome, his complexion is not so dark, his hair is short in front and long in the back, he has a pigtail at the back of his head, and a ring-shaped beard on his lips, much like the Italian star Baggio. Wearing white clothes and white pants, two strings of beads around his neck, one black and one yellow. Judging from his appearance alone, I think that Azanka does not have a good appearance, and he is dressed in black, so he should be a master in black, while Azanbudan looks comfortable in appearance, and he wears white clothes and pants, which is probably the white clothes of the correction method.

After everyone has been introduced, it is free time, and in the sound of relaxing music, everyone eats at will and communicates with each other. Huang Chengcheng told me to relax, don't be nervous, if someone asks me about the details of my career, I can't talk to them more, try to keep the topic away, and go first.

I was already hungry, so I went to the table first, grabbed an empty plate and prepared to try some lobster meat first. A staff member walked over quickly and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, Director Tian is a monk from China, I know that Mahayana Buddhism is a vegetarian, but we don't have much vegetarian food today, I'm really sorry, these two plates are fried rice without meat, can you see if you can just take it? If it's not convenient, I'll go to the restaurant now and prepare some vegetarian food for you." "I hurriedly said that it doesn't matter, fried rice is okay, and the staff is very grateful, let me take care of it, and if there is anything, just look for him.

This makes me angry, when did I become a monk? Although I am bald, am I still wearing vulgar clothes? Could it be that all the bald people from China who wear Buddhist beads are monks? But the words have already been spoken, so I have to pretend to the end. The two large plates of fried rice only had vegetables, green beans and carrots, and there was really no meat, so I had to take half a plate and eat it slowly with a spoon, and the taste could only be said to be okay.

Huang Chengcheng came over with a plate and asked me with a smile why I only ate these things. I saw a whole piece of lobster meat on his plate, white and red, with sauce, and I whispered, "They think I am a monk from China, and they think I don't eat meat." Huang Chengcheng was stunned at first, and then chuckled, as if he was very happy. I was so angry that before I could say anything, Huang Chengcheng patted me on the shoulder, walked away on his own, and went to talk to someone.

I'm not idle, anyway, I'm not here to eat seafood, I greet people when I meet, and I hand out business cards without a few words, which is the purpose of my trip, otherwise my head will be shaved white. These people were surprised to see that I, a half-monk and half-layman from Chinese mainland, also sold Thai amulets. Huang Chengcheng told me that these are all Chinese, and even if they understand Thai Buddhist cards, they cannot be as proficient as Thai people, and not everyone in Thailand understands Buddhist cards, so I can communicate with confidence.

Except for those Thais who were given up by me because of the language barrier, I gave out a box of nearly 100 business cards to everyone who could speak Chinese, and soon everyone distributed them, leaving less than 20 cards. I am very satisfied, no matter whether there are business opportunities in the future, at least I have done what I should do, and I have worked hard. Finally I saw the two Azan masters, Azan Ka was chatting with the vice president, and Azan Budan was sitting in a chair, drinking a glass of orange juice in his hand, and no one was talking to anyone, just looking at this, looking at that, it seemed to be boring.

I thought to myself, although there is a strong upstream businessman in Kaohsiung, there is no business that cannot be done, but if I can get to know two more Azan masters, it is not a bad thing to say anything, it is a big deal that I will introduce them to Kaohsiung again, anyway, my Thai language is also very bad now, and if Kaohsiung uses these two Azan masters to handle my business, how can I give me the highest discount. So, I found Huang Chengcheng, who was chatting with a middle-aged woman who was still charming, and asked him to come over to me as a translator and talk to the two Azan masters. Huang Chengcheng was interrupted by me, obviously a little unhappy, but he still came.