Chapter 9: Doing Business for the First Time

I nodded again and again, thinking that opening a jewelry store and partnering with the tour guide to make money would make a lot of money, and it would be right to say that it was a small business. Suddenly, I remembered something: "Isn't it 10,000, how can it become 12,000? Your interest is too high, it's only two days and it's more than 1,000 a day?"

Gao Chengxin said: "Is it good to buy air tickets in a spicy way? You don't know that travel agencies buy tickets in groups is very cheap, but it is very expensive to take it alone, this is already a discount price for acquaintances, otherwise you can't get down at all!" In this case, I won't say much, anyway, there is Kaohsiung's sentence at the bottom, and it's a big deal to leave.

When I came to the airport in the afternoon, I went through the formalities to take a plane from Bangkok to Guangzhou, and the money in my wallet was barely enough to buy a hard seat to Shenyang, and there were only two yuan left. I didn't say anything all the way, and it was the middle of the night the next day when I got home, and I went to sleep when I entered the house. When I got up the next day, I told my parents about the black-hearted tour group, which made them angry, and I was about to call my cousin at that time, but I stopped him: "He was also fooled by others, if he really knew that it was this kind of black-hearted group, he didn't dare to introduce it to me, only blamed me for being greedy." ”

My parents were angrier than me, they didn't eat lunch, and they complained that they couldn't do it and couldn't let their son live a good life. I felt very uncomfortable, and hurriedly persuaded them, and also took out those Buddha cards, saying that this is the goods that are in partnership with Chinese friends in Thailand, picking up these Buddha cards, my father asked: "This is a Thai necklace, it's not good-looking, can it be sold?" I smiled secretly, and I couldn't explain much.

I uploaded the photos and videos from my phone to the computer, and the video was so terrifying, so I asked a classmate who worked in an advertising agency to help edit it, and pinched off the part where Azan filmed the assistant roasted the dead baby with iron bars, and started playing it directly from Azan put his arm into the flame. The classmate was so frightened that he asked me what the hell it was, and I told him that it was a scene of a Thai monk blessing a Buddha card.

"That's how the Thai Buddhist card was made?" said the classmate on QQ, "I heard that it was made by a Thai monk before, but I didn't expect it to be like this!" I laughed in my heart and didn't explain much.

At that time, there was no WeChat, everyone used QQ to talk, and the most commonly used social platform was QQ Zone. I posted all the photos and videos, and there was a lot of text along with a lot of text, telling how I went to Thailand to run temples, meet monks, and ask for Buddhist cards. I deliberately wrote a travelogue, and the tone was light, as if I often went abroad.

Within two days, there were more than 50 messages under this QQ log, and both relatives and friends, as well as netizens, asked me about the trip to Thailand and the Buddhist card. This surprised me, I thought it didn't work, but I didn't expect it to attract so much attention. A junior high school classmate who was doing business left a message: "Tian Li, aren't you working in a mobile phone store, when did you go to Thailand to sell Buddhist cards?"

I was particularly excited by this message.

Ever since I graduated from college, no one has ever said this about me. Especially this male classmate surnamed Ma, the family has been doing clothing business on Wuai Street for many years, living in a bungalow and domineering, with good conditions, and almost never looked at me at the class reunion before, if it wasn't for the sake of building a group of classmates, it is estimated that he would not add my QQ number. So I hurriedly replied: "It's been more than two months, and I've been working with a few Chinese friends in Thailand." ”

Not long after, classmate Ma asked for a mobile phone number in a private chat on QQ, and after sending it, he immediately called: "Okay, Tian Li, why didn't I know you were so capable?

This made me stop, so I had to say that I had it all. He asked again: "My cousin and brother-in-law are doing business in Guangdong, and they have invited two Buddhist medals, which are said to be very spiritual, and the business is very good, but I don't know much about it." You are doing a good business of Buddhist cards now, acquaintances are supporting you, are there any genuine cards that have a good effect of increasing popularity? What is the general price? Look at the Buddhist cards you sent in the space log, there is no detailed introduction. ”

I was completely petrified, and I didn't know what to do, and Kaohsiung didn't tell me. But of course, I can't let him know that I'm a layman, just say I'm eating, and I'll send you the information right after the meal. Hanging up the phone, I thought to myself that Kaohsiung would not be able to access the Internet, let alone a QQ number, so I had to take a pen and paper and go downstairs to find a home phone to call him to Thailand. At that time, the international long-distance tariff of mobile phones was very expensive, and there was no popular software such as WeChat for network calls, so China was full of words, and it was relatively cheaper to call abroad, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were more than one dollar per minute, the United States was more expensive, and other countries were about three or four yuan per minute.

After connecting, I asked Kaohsiung what is the positive and negative cards, and I had someone to consult. He said: "The genuine card is the Buddha card blessed by the Cuban monks of Luang Po, and the blessing of the few white-clothed Azan who have corrected the Dharma is also the same. The white-clothed Azan who cultivates the outer dharma, and the blessed Buddha card is called the Yin card, which can also be called the positive Yin card. And the black-clothed Azan who cultivates the evil law and the black law, the blessed Buddha card is called the evil yin card, referred to as the evil card. The batch of Buddha cards given to you, there are detailed information in the pocket, be careful, be sure to memorize it, if you can really sell it, don't forget to let customers get started. ”

I didn't understand anything at all, so I had to write it all down. When I got home, I thought to myself that I hadn't made any money, so I had to take in more than ten yuan in the phone bill first, which was really distressing. The transparent bags of those amulets were accompanied by two slips of paper, one with the name of the amulet, the blessing temple and the time of the plaque, and the other with two printed sentences, one in Chinese pronunciation and one in pinyin, with the words "To do the way to get started: at twelve o'clock at midnight to worship in a no-man's place or hold it in the palm above your head, and chant it three times in a row." ”

I re-took clear photos of each amulet from multiple angles, and then annotated the details below. For example, there is a Chongdi card, with the text is: [three-layer Chongdi Buddha card] genuine card, Thailand Nakhon Ratchasima Phapanya Temple abbot Luang Po Lu supervised and blessed, supervised in the Buddhist calendar 2547, limited to 2,000 pieces, transshipment fortune and safety, domestic spot, respectfully requested price of RMB 1000 yuan, free shipping in the mainland.

Several bracelets woven with colorful ropes are: [bite the money tiger] Thailand Bangkok Thonburi XXX temple abbot Long Po XX hand-woven and blessed, fortune transfer, domestic spot, respectfully ask for RMB 300 yuan, free shipping in the mainland.

And the Thai baht banknotes painted with mantras are: [Qian Mother] Long Po XX, the abbot of XXX temple in Thonburi Province, Bangkok, Thailand, personally drew and blessed it, with a face value of 20 baht, and put it in a wallet. Domestic spot, the price is 200 yuan, and the mainland is free shipping.