Liaozhai story: A man helps a boa constrictor survive a calamity. The boa constrictor dreams about it in the middle of the night and has to hide under the bed at midnight.
Folk story: A Taoist priest was staying in a mountain village at night. When he saw water seeping from the outer wall of a bricklayer's house, he shouted: "Bring me a torch."
The path to destruction of Liang Ji, a powerful official of the Eastern Han Dynasty who had ruled the country arbitrarily for twenty years and established three emperors successively.