The first thing you can see is a vacant lot when you entered the retired house. This lot should be the place when all troops gather together. Around this lot, there are some partitions. Each partition is divided into several rooms. Each room belongs to one family. Those houses are old and shabby. Except all those houses, there are a public restroom, a bathing house, a barber shop, a small grocery store, and an activity center for everyone to do some activities, such as watching news, playing chess and chatting. This style of the retired house is the typical barrack in twenty or thirty years ago.

After passing some houses, we came to the house of Grandpa Lee, who is the one we had interview with. The size of Grandpa Lee's house is about 33 square meters. In the house, there are a bed, a closet, a refrigerator, a dinning table and some chairs. After we, group of eight people, came into the house, the house seems pretty small and crowd. The kitchen is located in a small partition which is separated outside of the house. Grandpa Lee is required to use the public bathroom and the restroom which are fifty meters away from his house.

Grandpa Lee is from He-Nan Province and was born on 1926. He is the only child in the family. When he was eighteen years old, he joined the civil war in China ; he stopped his education and became a soldier. When he was in the fight in HsuChow, he was injured. He went to NanJing via a flight and took trains to WuHu . After came to WuHu Hospital , he had an operation to remove the bullet in his body. Since then, Grandpa Lee still has a long and deep scar on his leg. After taking a rest, when he was just able to walk, because of communist, they had to retreat and move to JiangXi , NanChang , SuChow , and GuangChow. He was stayed in the house of his cousin and his foster mother.