Grandpa is an ordinary rural man, but he is an extraordinary craftsman. My father said that grandpa is a man who runs on the tide of the times, but I think he has been diligent all his life, and the most important thing is to live a wonderful life in ups and downs. My hometown is under Taihang Mountain, located in the north of Henan Province, and it is one of the granaries in China. Under the slogan of "taking grain as the key link", farming has already occupied an extremely important position. Grandpa lives in a village called "Xijiawa", where there is fertile black soil, which is really a rare miracle in the mountainous area belonging to the loess plain. Unfortunately, after liberation, these fertile fields were only used as commons, or planted apples or gardens, which did not bring much benefit to the local people. Grandpa was born in 1935. His name is Tian Hede, the word Weidong (later a fashionable name). He is the third in the family, with two brothers, an elder sister and a younger brother. Grandpa's ancestors were also well-off, and there used to be a two-story building. In grandpa's generation, it is said that gambling destroyed his family, so grandpa had no chance of education and had to herd sheep at the Tang landlord's house in the northwest of the village. Such a family's annual income can't support their families at all, so they have to go out to work. The west of the village is Changzhi, Shanxi, which is fairly rich. Grandpa Tai, Grandpa Da and Grandpa Er all went to Changzhi to be plasterers. With the money earned by working, three people can barely make ends meet, and they have to save some money to take home (this lifestyle has continued in the village until around 1985). So in the days before liberation, family life was still quite poor. Because the north of the village is the liberated area of Taihang Mountain in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan where Liu Deng's army is located, 1945 was liberated. After the land reform, my 14-year-old grandfather also went to Shanxi to work. The life of an apprentice in the old society was very hard. Grandpa is hardworking, cheerful and humorous. He soon learned all the skills from the master, and soon got the highest salary of the craftsman. The situation at home also improved slightly. With the beginning of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, all three brothers in the family joined the Volunteers. Because grandpa is a craftsman, he was assigned to the corps of engineers to be responsible for the maintenance of firearms. At that time, New China had just been established, and materials were extremely scarce. Their task is to "clean" the battlefield by stepping on the snow that has not reached the thigh root, pick up some abandoned gun parts, and then replenish the troops after repairing them. Because of the confrontation between the two sides, the sniper was ambushed on the position. In order to pick up the advanced American gun parts, he was often close to the US military position, and grandpa was scratched on the right side of his head by a bullet. In the army, grandpa tried his best to learn more than 120 words. In order to have a good relationship with fellow villagers, he also learned simple daily Korean conversation and finally won three advanced medals. Because of his low education level, grandpa can only be a platoon leader. During this experience, Grandpa not only learned a lot, but also successfully became a party member. This political background undoubtedly became the most powerful shield in the subsequent social unrest. Later, grandpa changed jobs from the army. Because he was a technician-level talent badly needed by the country and party member, Grandpa was directly assigned to work in Shanghai Machine Tool Plant until he became an eight-level fitter. At that time, the country implemented a strict household registration management system, and the household registration of his wife and daughter could not be transferred. In addition, a few years after the founding of New China, rural production resumed and flourished, and farmers in their hometown lived a life of "two cows on five acres of land, and their wives and children were hot on the kang". Grandpa is very homesick and strongly demands to go back to his hometown to start a business. Therefore, grandpa returned to his hometown from Shanghai Machine Tool Plant to be a "resident cadre" to help inspect and promote the revolutionary work. Grandpa has been stationed in most villages in his hometown, and later returned to his own village to be the squad leader and party leader. Deng Xiaoping once said: "China people are not afraid of being beaten, but they are afraid of being poor." In difficult economic times, starvation has become the norm, and grandpa, who has been a cadre for several years, feels that it is still affordable to make the economy look good. Therefore, grandpa decided to give full play to his locksmith's skill, encouraged the branch secretary of the brigade to buy an 8-horsepower walking tractor to plow the fields during busy farming hours and engage in some transportation during slack farming hours. Under the planned economy, state-owned enterprises are responsible for transportation. At that time, the most important thing to buy a car was that it could be repaired. There is no garage dedicated to repairing cars in society, and mechanics of state-owned transportation companies do not repair cars for private people. In addition, auto parts are exclusively used. If the parts are broken, you can't buy them, so you can only make one yourself. Therefore, grandpa who has the level of eight fitters is so confident. However, there is no precedent for credit cooperatives, and they feel that the loan risk is very high. The branch secretary of the brigade has no idea and is afraid to buy a car. Finally, Grandpa issued a "military order", and the brigade barely bought a tractor with 1000 yuan, which was almost all the savings of the brigade. After working for a year, grandpa paid the brigade 3300 yuan-twice the financial income of the village.