Startled, the unwilling host laughed it off by saying: "Your divination is perfectly correct, I'd heard you were a skilled diviner and just wanted to test you ...." Ancient fortune-telling texts say that people who handle chopsticks using three fingers are easy-going by nature, those who use four are well-omened, and those who use all five fingers are destined for greatness.
主人大驚，連忙哈哈一笑說，算得真準，就是聽說你擅長占卜，這才試你一下… …。古時的相書還說，用三指拿筷的人，天性自在，用四指的人命貴，用五指的人則大富大貴。