Today when I stopped at a intersection waiting for the green light, I saw a movie advertisement posted on the exterior body of the bus which stopped beside my car, and then subject three Chinese characters popped into my eyes. 

I don't know much about that preposterous, imaginary killing gadget; I was told that its shape is like a small flying saucer, equipped with spinning sharp blades inside, can be sent far away to cut someone's head off.  I guess it appeared during 1920's when Qing Dynasty had been overthrown, and Han people were enchanted with the "resist Qing, restore Ming" atmosphere; therefore, for catering to the mass market, some novelist of martial art fighters created or "concocted" that stuff, connecting it to dramatize the real history: like Yong-zheng, the most oppressive emperor of Qing Dynasty, was killed by that lethal weapon.  Who was the  author that could have had such an ideas in creating an ingenious "device" like that?  By all accounts, it was my grandfather, an amateur writer with his pseudonym 津門李蝶莊. 

I barely have blurred memories of my grandfather.  According to my only living aunt, mother side, who is now in Mainland, she was the youngest and the most pampered child of my grandfather's, but since I was born, she had to make way for me.  She said the doting grandfather was so fond of me that she even felt jealous then.  My grandfather died in 1949, the year of the sea change.

Will I go to said movie?  I think so.