Stories Told by Grandma

When I was little, I often pestered my grandma to tell stories, especially the stories about the war before liberation, which were my favorite in childhood. I would always fall asleep with my grandma's stories. My grandma was born in the late Qing Dynasty, in the Northeast during the Guangxu period, and experienced many eras including the end of the Qing Dynasty, the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, the Puppet Manchukuo, the recovery of the Republic of China, until liberation, the establishment of New China, and the early days of reform and opening up. She is very emotional about the great changes that reform and opening up have brought to people's lives. She often says: "Now that I have food and drink, stability and beauty are happiness, I am very content." It can be said that she spent the first half of her life in the most turbulent and critical era of the Chinese nation. It can also be said that her youth witnessed the history of how a helpless and bullied Chinese nation fought against foreign enemies. This is a story about the declining nobles of the Manchu people, who gradually recognized the reality from respecting the emperor and always wanted to restore the monarchy, and then gradually fought against it personally. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.