Once back to before liberation! What's the first sentence?

After decades of hard work, I once returned to before liberation.

At the beginning of the reform in the late 1970s, after the implementation of the rural hukou quota policy, some rural cadres complained bitterly, which was what the reporter said when writing about Dazhai.

Before liberation, China was poor. After decades of hard work, all of a sudden, the hard money is gone and poor again. Therefore, before liberation, it was often used as a metaphor for how the stock market changed and lost all its money, and also referred to a situation in which the stock market was unpredictable.