Chapter 344: First Business
The classmate called and said that he wanted to find Master Azanjiu to make a thorn talisman, and the dealer really knew him, saying that Master Azanjiu lived more than ten kilometers west of Bangkok, and when he came to Thailand, he could go at any time. Lao Xie's classmates said I was in Bangkok. Make an appointment with the dealer.
Thorn charms are not like asking for cards, you can't ask for them, you have to go in person. So noon the next day. Lao Xie's classmates were led by the card dealer to Azanjiu's house. As soon as I arrived at the door, my classmates suddenly found that their wallets were lost, and they couldn't find them, so they didn't even enter the house, so they went back to the hotel. The card merchant ran for nothing, feeling unhappy, but he couldn't say anything, saying that he would have the opportunity to contact him again in the future.
Of course, the loss of the wallet was fake, and the classmate and Lao Xie came to Azanjiu's house smoothly the next day. Master Azan had assistants or apprentices who could speak Chinese, and when Azanjiu's apprentice saw that these two were from China and wanted to be card merchants, he let them enter the Dharma room, saying that there were guests there now, and asked them to wait for a while.
In Azanjiu's Dharma room, Lao Xie and his classmates were standing next to him, Azanjiu was sitting cross-legged, blessing a batch of Buddha cards, and there was a card dealer waiting next to him. Behind him was a low table filled with statues of Buzhou, Buddhist medallions, and all kinds of gold-dusted children. At the time of Azan's blessings. Lao Xie was idle, so he walked to the altar to visit. He didn't understand the cloth Zhou, the Buddha card, and the golden boy, but he saw a tray the size of a basin at his feet, and there were a lot of things piled up in it. Evaluate the talents.
Lao Xie curiously leaned over and squatted down to look, and found that there were a few dry things in the tray, the shape was very human-like, but it was very small. Lao Xie thought to himself, these Thai mages are really interesting, and they are deliberately shaped into the shape of villains, which looks quite bluffing. There are also some fragments of bones, some in the form of bowl flakes and some in the shape of roots. This reminded Lao Xie of the human bone worn by his classmates.
In the midst of this pile, Lao Xie saw that there were two rows of teeth. He was startled, but curious, and saw that Master Azan was talking to the card dealer. My heart was pounding, and I reached out to pull the pile of things on it. Those things were originally stacked casually, and they were piled up very unrealistically, and when Lao Xie moved like this, all the things scattered, and they fell down with a clamour, rolling out a gray-black human skull. Coincidentally, the skull happened to roll into Lao Xie's arms, Lao Xie subconsciously hugged it with his hand, and the two black holes of the skull were staring at him.
"Ahh The skull fell to the ground a few times in his hand, and rolled quite away. Azanjiu and his apprentices, card dealers, and Lao Xie's classmates all looked over here, and Azanjiu's apprentice hurriedly came over to pick up the skull and put it back on the tray, and asked what was going on unhappily. Lao Xie trembled and pointed to the tray, saying that there was a dead man's skull inside. His classmate hurriedly came over to explain, saying that this fat man had just come to Thailand and had never seen much femininity. The apprentice whispered a few words to Azanjiu, Azanjiu nodded, stretched out his hand to take down a Buddha card from the altar, the apprentice took it to Lao Xie and his classmates, and said: "Master is the best at making Yin cards for the ears and red eyes to report the gods, this ear for the gods to pay tribute to the four thousand baht, there is only one left, if you want to invite as soon as possible." ”
Lao Xie and his classmates walked out of the law room, and the classmates complained about how Lao Xie was startled, Lao Xie wiped his sweat with a handkerchief for a long time, and said: "Who, who knows that there is a bright skull there, but it scares me to death." ”
The classmate said: "Lao Xie, if you want to be a card dealer, you have to be bold." You were timid when you went to school, and that's not okay! ”
Old Xie nodded again and again, thinking that courage is not a stomach, how can it be so easy to get bigger. He tried to stabilize himself and called Boss Pi. He had a little more heart and said, "Boss Pi, I'm at Azanjiu's house now, because his amulet cards are too sought-after, and there are many fake ones on the market, so I'm afraid the price now is 1,000 yuan more expensive than your friend's one half a year ago." ”
Boss Pi said, "What, it costs 6,000 yuan?" It's really expensive, but it's better than taking a leave of absence. Manager Xie, can you guarantee that it is true? Lao Xie took out the other party's price, his voice trembled with excitement, patted his chest and said that if it was fake, he would pay with his life. Boss Pi asked, why don't you run business in the furniture factory, and sell Buddha cards instead, Lao Xie said that this is just a side business, Boss Pi promised to pay him in the afternoon, and let Lao Xie leave a bank account.
Hanging up the phone, Lao Xie was still hesitating to wait for the money to arrive and then come back to get the goods, but his classmates persuaded him to pay for the goods to be deducted first, so as not to have them when the time came. Lao Xie had never done business and didn't want to take this risk. At this time, two more people came to Azanjiu's house, and the apprentice complained to Lao Xie that he had come to Master Azanjiu to ask for a card.
Lao Xie was afraid that the two of them would invite him away, so he gritted his teeth, took out the Thai baht that had been exchanged in the bank in advance, handed it over, and invited one back.
Back at the hotel, Lao Xie's heart kept on it, for fear that Boss Pi would release his pigeons. In the afternoon, Boss Pi called his classmate's mobile phone, saying that the money had arrived and asked him to check. Lao Xie immediately called his wife in the hospital and asked her to immediately take a certain bank card to the ATM to inquire. Twenty minutes later, I called again, and my wife reported that there was an extra 6,000 yuan, and asked him what kind of money it was. Lao Xie didn't explain much, and after hanging up the phone, he immediately sent this ear report to the address of Boss Pi in Nanjing through the international express company.
On the fifth day after Lao Xie and his classmates returned to China, Boss Pi called him, saying that the Buddha card had been received, and he also deliberately compared it with his friend's one, which was undoubtedly genuine, and expressed his gratitude to Lao Xie, saying that he would have to go to Thailand by himself, and the round-trip ticket alone would cost thousands.
Sitting on the bed, Lao Xie held the 6,000 yuan he had just withdrawn from the bank, sold it for 6,000 for 800, and made a net profit of 5,002, which was almost Lao Xie's half-year salary, but now he earned it as soon as he changed hands. Lao Xie didn't sleep for two nights, and was even so excited that he secretly shed tears. People are forced out, and Lao Xie never dreamed that he, who was as timid as a mouse, could actually become a businessman specializing in Yin cards.
After earning the first money on the Buddha card, Lao Xie's wife was also very excited and immediately decided to let him resign and continue to be a card merchant. But Lao Xie didn't want to quit his job in a furniture factory, feeling that being a dealer was not a serious profession, and his income was unstable, so it was okay to be a side hustle.
Lao Xie is a stable person, and he likes to have a plan before doing things. He bought a diary and began to study how to arrange the relationship between the main and side hustles, and how to carry out the business. He has a lot of furniture factory customers, but this is not counted, can not be purposeless net, through his understanding, found that a large part of the people who buy Buddhist cards are interested in Southeast Asia, especially Thai culture, and travel to Thailand.
If you want to be a card dealer, at least you have to understand the Buddha card, Lao Xie does not know anything about the Buddha card, so he had to mobilize relatives and friends to find people who understand the Buddha card. Fortunately, the power of Liudu's connections is great, and he has an old classmate who is from Guangdong, and the son of the neighbor's uncle has lived in Bangkok, Thailand for many years, so he asked the uncle to ask his son if he knows an expert in Buddhist cards in Thailand. The effort was not in vain, and the man really knew a crazy amulet enthusiast, a native of Thailand, who was relatively wealthy. This person not only knows a lot about Buddhist cards, but also often goes to major temples and Master Azan's house to ask for cards.
In order to learn more knowledge, Lao Xie deliberately asked the furniture company for a few more days off, booked a discounted air ticket to Bangkok, and found this expert to understand the knowledge, all of which were recorded in the notebook. This person is very enthusiastic, I heard that Lao Xie is a special trip to China to find him to understand the Buddha card, and is very excited, Lao Xie to his home, show him nearly 100 Buddha cards collected for many years Gu Man, while looking and talking, Lao Xie wrote them down one by one.
In order to save money, I couldn't stay in the hotel at night, and only slept on the benches at the BRT station. He bought a lot of maps, all of Thailand, as well as dozens of big cities. As he listened to the experts' explanations, he marked the map and wrote down the names, specialties, and residences of the main temples and Master Azan in his notebook. This person also took Lao Xie to several temples in Bangkok, and the homes of several white-clothed Azan people, and introduced Lao Xie to the masters.
Everyone's success is inseparable from a nobleman, Lao Xie can embark on the road of card dealers, this expert is indispensable. After returning to Xiantao, Lao Xie obviously felt confident, the Internet was not so developed at that time, Lao Xie did not understand computers, so he bought a cheapest old mobile phone at that time, printed hundreds of business cards, and took the train to travel agencies in major cities in Hubei to distribute business cards, saying that he was stationed in Thailand for a long time, specifically for customers to invite Thai Buddha Guman and other things, and the tour guide introduced a rebate.