Gold Twig heard someone begging for food on the day after she had given an old, scabby beggar her lunch of two pieces of rice cake in a vegetable garden of her master.

Macaques are indigenous to Taiwan. Now protected by the wildlife law, they thrive in the wild. They even maraud orchards.

Grandaunt Tigress rushed out to find out her little girl was still in the outhouse relieving her nature. The child wasn't there. All that the tigress found was a half-empty bucket bound with a rope.

It was midnight when the younger sister heard someone munching something in the room next to hers. The noise, though muffled, woke her up.

It was after nightfall when the two small girls heard someone knocking at their front door. They were about to go to bed alone at their home, when the door was knocked.

Tigers are not indigenous to Taiwan, though they are in China, only 100 miles across the sea. Chinese immigrants in Taiwan before it was colonized by the Dutch in the seventeenth century knew what the tiger was, but their offspring born on the island knew nothing about the big tiger.

"I will have a small stream created at once,” Zhou the Millionaire said, unwittingly falling into a clever snare the avenging geomancer had sprung.

The time came for Zhou the Millionaire (周百萬) and his family to move in their Katsura Flower Mansion.

Zhou the Millionaire (周百萬) continued to expand his export-import business after his son, Jinlong ( 金隆) or Gold-Prosperity, was born to carry on his family line.

Zhou the Millionaire (周百萬) had to acknowledged he had asked one of his tenant farmers to catch the giant lamprey in the Xintian Stream and paid him four taels of silver in advance.