The next morning, we had breakfast downstairs, and I have to say that the Thai food and seafood are great, but the breakfast is not good, there is nothing special, such as egg porridge, tom yum soup powder and milk tea, I think it is not as good as Chinese xiao long bao and fried dough tofu brain. Kaohsiung drove from Bangkok, first north to a place called Ayutthaya, and then turned northeast to Saraburi. I had a map of Thailand in my hand and marked with a red pen the areas I passed through and arrived at each time.

When I came to the house of the Cuban master, I thought that since I was called a Cuban master, there must be a temple, but I didn't expect it to be just an ordinary apartment. Cuba Banner lives in a room on the first floor, with a courtyard at the front door and several motorcycles parked in it. Kaohsiung, a familiar man brought me in, and I saw a strong, slightly chubby middle-aged man sitting cross-legged, draped diagonally in the earthy yellow monk's robe characteristic of Southeast Asian monks, with half of his shoulders exposed, and no tattoos on his body. A young woman with long hair sat on a cushion, wearing a dress, unzipped the back collar of the skirt, revealing the skin on her neck, folded her hands, her head bowed, and her back to the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man holds a long metal tube with spikes at the end and tattoos on the back of the young woman's neck. He whispered the mantra while piercing, the speed of the piercing was fast, the chanting was also accelerated, and the stabbing was slow, and the chanting speed was also slowed down.

The offering table next to it was filled with all kinds of things, including a half-human-tall tiger head figure, candles as thick as an arm, large and small trays, many Buddhist plaques, and many other things that I did not recognize. In addition to the Cuban master and the young woman, there were several men next to him, tall, short, fat and thin, all sitting next to him and talking in low voices. Seeing Kaohsiung coming, two of the men greeted him, and they seemed to know each other. Kaohsiung motioned for me to sit down and wait quietly.

I pulled out my phone and started videotaping the tattoos. After about ten minutes, the tattoo was over, and the Cuban master put his left palm against the skin of the woman's tattoo and recited the mantra for three to five minutes. I saw that there was no pattern on the place where the woman was tattooed, only slightly red and swollen. At this moment, a young man next to him picked up a small bowl from the offering table, which contained a black liquid, like ink. The Cuban master dipped the liquid in his hand and slowly applied it to the woman's tattoos, back and forth several times, and the colors began to appear on the tattoos, ranging from bright red to deep red.

A man took a handkerchief to dry the woman's skin, and then fastened the zipper, and the two joined together to thank him, and the man took out the money and handed it to the young man, and the two left. Kaohsiung chatted with both the young man and Cuba Banner, who nodded and asked the young man to take out two Buddhist plaques from the tray on the offering table. Cuba Banner said something again, and Kaohsiung asked me, "Do you have any photos of customers?"

"What do you want pictures for?" I shook my head.

Kaohsiung said: "The master wants to see how blessed this person is from the photo, and whether he is suitable to wear a butterfly tag." "I hurriedly called Zhang Na, but she didn't answer, so I had to text her and ask her to send her photos to my QQ mailbox, because her mobile phone must only be a local pass, and she can't send a foreign number, and international roaming is too expensive, and I don't want to use a domestic mobile phone number in Thailand.

Within two minutes, I used my mobile phone to log in to QQ mailbox, at that time the mobile phone was only Symbian or JAVA system, the Internet access is far less convenient than today's smartphones, the screen is small, and typing is also difficult. I finally entered the mailbox and saw that there was really a new email, which read: "Why do you want photos?" I was so angry that I quickly replied about the situation.

This time, Zhang Na sent the photo, which was quite clear, and handed the phone to Master Cuba Banner. While he was holding his phone to look at the photos, I used the V3 phone to start recording. Cuba Banner only looked at it for a few seconds, then shook his head and said a few words to Kaohsiung. Kaohsiung said: "Cuba Banner said that this woman's good fortune is too shallow and she is not suitable to wear a genuine card. "I thought to myself, this is not possible, I came all the way to Thailand, and I also signed a letter of guarantee, if I don't get this business done, it will be too unwilling.

I asked, "If it doesn't fit, can't you leave?" Kaohsiung said that as long as you pay money, you can invite, but Cuba Banna said in advance, and it may not work well when the time comes. I said that even if the genuine card is not good, it will not backfire or even make customers unlucky.

Kaohsiung said: "How can the genuine card backfire, and the customer will not be unlucky, but it is just that the effect is not good, or it has the opposite effect." For example, if you are a female customer who wants to increase her popularity, but she has little luck, she may not only not increase her popularity, but it will be worse. ”

"That's not good, the customer has to ask me to return the money, she is my junior high school classmate. I hurriedly said.

Kaohsiung talked with Cuba Banner for a moment and said to me: "Cuba Banner said that as long as customers try to change their behavior and be kind to others after wearing it, it will not get worse." When I asked if being kind to others meant doing good deeds on a regular basis, Kaohsiung said, "You don't necessarily have to do good deeds, but use kindness to govern words and deeds." Kind attitude, good guess, compassion and understanding. "I thought to myself, this Cuban Banner master has two hits, and just by looking at the photos, you can see that these are what Zhang Na lacks the most.

In any case, the money was collected, and there was no reason not to make money, so I replied to Zhang Na in the mailbox, saying that Master Cuba Banner suggested that the wearer should be more kind and kind. Zhang Na replied: "Yes." ”

Cuba Banner placed a butterfly plaque in a tray, opened the five fingers of his left hand, hung it about five or six centimeters above the plaque, and began to chant mantras. I also recorded the scene of his blessing, and also took a few photos, not only for Zhang Na to see, but also for myself to use in QQ space. At the end of the blessing, Kaohsiung took the amulet and handed the young man 10 1,000-baht bills, and we both thanked Cuba Banna with his hands folded.

On the way back to Bangkok from Saraburi, I asked, "You taught me before that Cuba is the name given to monks in northern Thailand, corresponding to the 'Luang Po' in the south, but why is this Cuban Banner not in a temple, but in an ordinary person's home?"

Kaohsiung said: "Cuba Banner originally lived in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, where he practiced in a cave for two years, and the local villagers spontaneously pooled money to build a temple for him to live in and practice. In the last two months, he has traveled to several places in the central part of the country, and at the request of many good believers, he has specially tattooed five scriptures for good believers. ”

"No wonder you recommended to me in a text message that you have his butterfly card," I looked at the map and found Chiang Rai in the northernmost part of the Thai territory, which is farther away than Chiang Mai, and immediately understood, "Otherwise, if you go so far to the north of Thailand to find Cuba Banna to ask for a Buddha card, it will take a long time to drive back and forth, and the 5,000 baht will not be worth earning." ”