The narrator is introduced to a fortune teller who tells him that he should wear gold instead of jade. The fortune teller says that his five elements are "short of water" and that his intelligence is "lacking" . The narrator says that he always thought that the fortune teller was a serious person, but now that he's been deceived, he can't stand to quarrel with him any longer. He tells the narrator that he already has a "chairman's charm" before he is a "mere chairman" , and that he doesn't even need to be a chairman to have a good relationship with him.