Strange Tales from Liaozhai (a Chinese Studio): Gong Mengbi explores enduring friendship, gratitude, and karmic justice through the bond between wealthy Liu Fanghua of Baoding, Hebei, and his steadfast friend Gong Mengbi from Shaanxi.
A schoolboy was playing truant in the street when he saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone.
A man went to visit his friend. He noticed that the kitchen chimney was straight, and a pile of fuel was stacked beside the stove.
A sea-gull alighted in a suburb of the capital of Lu. The Marquis of Lu welcomed it and feasted it in the temple hall, ordering the royal music and grandest sacrifices for it.