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In late June 1958, I transferred from the army and came to Taiyuan City, my second hometown. I reported to the Municipal Personnel Bureau, and the military transfer cadre who received me asked for my opinion on the assigned units. Because I was impacted by the political movement two years ago, I think it was due to working in a school with a lot of intellectuals, and I was eager to change the working environment and nature of work. At that time, the country had begun the Great Leap Forward and the Great Steelmaking Movement, and units in all walks of life were in urgent need of additional personnel. I proposed that I be assigned to work as a worker in Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company. The officer who transferred me to the military office asked me to rest for two weeks and wait for my assignment at home. Before I was assigned a job, I lived at my second brother's house. At that time, the second brother was working for the Shanxi Provincial Highway Bureau, but he still lived in the dormitory of the employees' family members of the North China Engineering Bureau, his original workplace. It is a three-story building newly built after liberation. It is a dormitory for the family members of the bureau's section chiefs and above.

I was born on the 15th day of the third lunar month in 1933 in Suoli Town, Gancheng County, Hunan Province, which is now the main urban area of ​​Jishou City, the capital of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan Province. Although I have left my hometown to work and live in the north for sixty years, my local accent is hard to change. I speak Mandarin that is both spicy from Hunan and vinegary from Shanxi. People often hear my accent and ask me where I am from. I answered that I was from Xiangxi, and the other party said: "Ah! I see, it's the place where bandits are found." Some people even jokingly added: "You are not a bandit, are you?" In fact, this is a misunderstanding, which was influenced by film and television dramas such as "The Suppression of Bandits in Western Hunan", "The Suppression of Bandits in Wulong Mountain" and "Once Upon a Time in Western Hunan" that were released continuously in the 1990s. The bandits described in these film and television dramas are not bandits in the traditional sense.