A 21-year-old boy took a 31-year-old widow and eloped into the mountains. Why did it take 50 years to build a love ladder?

You are like a rock, and I am like a pampas grass. The pampas grass is like silk, and the rock cannot be moved. Everyone has longed for this kind of love. When we first fell in love, we all hoped that there would be someone who could ride on the colorful auspicious clouds and then get to know and fall in love with us.

In the past, we could ignore everything for the sake of love. Liu Guojiang is such a person. For the sake of love, he will not care about anything in his life, just to stay with her forever.

Love Ladder

In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2001, an expedition team from Yubei went to Zhongshan Town, Jiangjin District, Chongqing to explore. They marched hard in the deep mountains south of Zhongshan Town. Here The mountains are high, the forests are dense, and there are few people. After walking for two days and two nights, there was not a soul in sight.

The team members came to a mountain called Banpotou and found that there were traces of manual excavation. There was actually a stone staircase leading to the mountain in this inaccessible place, which aroused the curiosity of the team members. Who built this stone staircase, and what is there on the mountain? With such curiosity, the expedition members climbed up the stairs one after another.

After two hours of climbing, the team members finally reached the top of the mountain. They were surrounded by vegetation and there was nothing. Suddenly, there was a sound coming from the vegetation, as if something was moving through the vegetation. , the team members immediately increased their vigilance, for fear of encountering any ferocious beasts.

There were no wild beasts, but two savages jumped out, holding lamps. The expedition team took a closer look and found that they were not savages, but two living people. They were just Two old men, one man and one woman, wearing blue shirts.

In this barren mountain, two old men appeared really strangely, so the expedition team members chatted with them and finally figured out the reason why the two old men appeared here.

Two old people, the man is Liu Guojiang and the woman is Xu Chaoqing, are villagers of Gaotan Village, Changle Town (now Changle Village) at the foot of the mountain. They have lived on this mountain for almost 50 years. However, they didn't understand the development and changes at the foot of the mountain at all. When talking to the expedition members, they asked them: "Is Chairman Mao still in good health?"

The reason why the two old people came to the half Potou lives in seclusion all because of their love. This is a love story that touches both heaven and earth.

The stairs that the expedition members climbed up were carved out bit by bit by Liu Guojiang with a hammer and a chisel so that Xu Chaoqing could go down easily. In 50 years, 6,208 steps were dug out. People were so shocked that they named that staircase the "Ladder of Love."

Elope into the mountains for love

When Liu Guojiang was 6 years old, someone in the village got married. At this time, Liu Guojiang happened to break his tooth. A broken tooth in the village gave it to the bride. It is said that the baby will grow quickly if touched. This was the first time Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing met. He broke his tooth when he was 6 years old and she was newly married at the age of 16. Xu Chaoqing was kind enough to help Liu Guojiang touch her. Teeth.

Xu Chaoqing didn’t know that at this moment, he could make this 6-year-old boy remember him for a lifetime. After that, Liu Guojiang became obsessed with Xu Chaoqing. Although they were 10 years apart, Liu Guojiang still loved him. Falling in love with her uncontrollably.

However, Xu Chaoqing is already married and has four children. No matter how much Liu Guojiang likes Xu Chaoqing, it is impossible for them to fall in love with each other. However, fate plays a trick and Xu Chaoqing's husband suddenly falls in love with Xu Chaoqing. She died of meningitis, leaving her to raise four children alone.

The child's grandparents thought she was a swindler and ignored her life, so only Liu Guojiang would help her. Over time, rumors spread in the village.

Liu Guojiang admired this beautiful girl from the bottom of his heart, and Xu Chaoqing had already fallen in love with Liu Guojiang for a long time when she had such a person who was willing to help her when she was unaccompanied. They couldn't live together openly and honestly.

Liu Guojiang took care of Xu Chaoqing like this for four years, and there were more and more rumors in the village. Finally, Xu Chaoqing couldn't bear it anymore, and she decided to sever ties with Liu Guojiang and never communicate with him again.

At this time, Liu Guojiang secretly made a decision. Liu Guojiang also knew the dangers of these strange looks, so he secretly went to Xu Chaoqing's house at night. He wanted to elope with Xu Chaoqing. Xu Chaoqing looked at this man who truly loved her, so he took his children and eloped with Liu Guojiang overnight. When we arrived at Banpotou, Liu Guojiang was 21 years old and Xu Chaoqing was 31 years old.

There were two thatched huts in Banpotou. Liu Guojiang saw them when he was hunting, so they came to live here. However, there were many wild animals in the barren mountains and the thatched huts were not strong. It fell, and they moved to live in a cave.

Liu Guojiang thought that Xu Chaoqing could not suffer like this, so he built a tile-roofed house in the place of the original thatched house. Now he finally had a good place to live.

Due to the needs of life, Liu Guojiang sometimes goes down the mountain. Every time he goes down the mountain, he is frightened because the road is too difficult. He is worried that the road will not be good when Xu Chaoqing goes down the mountain one day. Go, so it took 50 years to carve out the ladder of love.

One of the four children Xu Chaoqing took up the mountain accidentally fell into a manure pit and drowned. Later, the two of them gave birth to four more children. Under such difficult conditions, they raised these seven children. The child grew up and lived a very happy life. Xu Chaoqing called Liu Guojiang "young man" and Liu Guojiang called her "old mother".

Love only requires mutual happiness and no need to prove it to others

In 2007, Liu Guojiang passed away, and then in 2012, Xu Chaoqing also left this world, but their love story still remains Touching everyone who believes in love, their love transcends material things.

However, many people are questioning the authenticity of this matter. They believe that it is a story fabricated by the local government in order to develop tourism. If the ladder did not exist in the first place, it was later dug by the government. Yes, the purpose is just to find a gimmick to attract tourists.

In fact, Liu Guojiang’s original intention of building this ladder was just for his beloved and for her convenience, not to attract people’s attention. He did not need or need to do this, because in his eyes Here, the most important person is right in front of him, and that's enough.

No matter whether the incident on the ladder to heaven is true or false, their love will never change. It takes 50 years to dig out a step leading to the top of the mountain. How much perseverance does it take and what does it look like? How can love support such perseverance?

Even if this ladder to heaven existed, then Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing would risk everything to live in seclusion in the mountains for love and live a rough and ordinary life for a lifetime. In addition to feeling emotional about this kind of love, we What can be said?

They have transcended material satisfaction and gained spiritual wealth. Perhaps, for Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing, for those souls who truly love each other, as long as each other can be happy, as long as We can be by each other's side every day when we wake up. As long as you have him in your eyes and she has you in her eyes, nothing else matters, right?