He used a plate filled with incense ash which had been levelled off; after passing a stick of incense over it, he would take it out under the sun to have a look. "If you're lucky you'd be able to see Arabic numerals in the ash," he says, quite seriously.
他用一個小盤子裝滿抹平的香灰，一柱香過去後拿到太陽底下，「有福氣的人就可以看到阿拉伯數字」，他說得很認真。