Nowadays, transnational marriage is becoming more and more common, but the stories behind each transnational marriage are very different. The story of the transnational couple we are going to tell today is about the Chinese and Afghans.
The girl comes from the countryside and has suffered from hardships since she was a child, but she never bows to fate. With her own efforts, she walked out step by step. Not only did she marry an Afghan , an Afghan boy who is six years younger than her, but she also took the boy to settle in China and start a business.
So what kind of chance brought them together? How are they doing now? Let’s walk into the story of Liu Caixiang and Aji, a transnational marriage.
Liu Caixiang was born on April 25, 1973 in a rural family in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Both parents are authentic farmers. Because there are many children in the family, they live a very difficult life.
Liu Caixiang understands the difficulties of her parents very much, so she worked very hard when she went to school. However, when Liu Caixiang was in the fifth grade, her mother fell ill due to overwork. In order to reduce the burden on the family, the sensible Liu Caixiang chose to drop out of school and go home to help the family.
1987, Liu Caixiang was 14 years old. She saw that her mother's illness was getting better, and her younger brothers and sisters were also able to take care of themselves. She chose to go out to work and saved money to send all the money she earned home.
In 1990, Liu Caixiang went to work in his uncle's auto parts factory. Because of his proficiency in business, he was promoted to the head of the factory in just one year. But the good times didn't last long, my uncle's factory could not continue, and Liu Caixiang was unemployed.
After losing her job, Liu Caixiang opened a clothing store. Because of the average business, she invested in seafood breeding. With this business, she saved more than 500,000 yuan in savings. Later, she used the money she earned to take her younger brother to start a vegetable business again.
Although she can make money by selling vegetables, it is still very hard to make a lot of money, so she began to think about other ways to make money.
Until one day, the neighbor and her chat hit her inside. It turned out that my neighbor's cousin was doing an aluminum alloy doors and windows in Pakistan. Due to insufficient manpower, he needed to recruit some workers from China and was well received.
The neighbor invited her and her younger brother to go with her, and Liu Caixiang was moved. So on September 25, 1997, she, her younger brother, neighbors and others came to , Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, and .
Soon they entered the aluminum alloy factory to work, and it was here that Liu Caixiang met Aji, who was only 19 years old at the time.
Aji originally lived in the capital of Afghanistan, and his parents were both doing business, but for some reasons, they moved to Pakistani . In 1998, Aji, who graduated from high school, came to work at Liu Caixiang's factory after being introduced by a friend.
At that time, because Aji was very thin and had a good relationship with Liu Caixiang's younger brother, Liu Caixiang took great care of Aji. This touched Aji very much, and slowly fell in love with this female boss who was six years older than him.
But Aji's courting journey was not smooth. Not only was the age gap big, but the key was to cross nationality. Liu Caixiang has always treated Aji as her younger brother. Faced with Aji's confession, Liu Caixiang refused without hesitation. However, Aji did not give up the word "two" in his dictionary. With the help of Liu Caixiang's younger brother, Liu Caixiang finally accepted Aji.
June 6, 1999, Aji and Liu Caixiang got married. Shortly after the marriage, Aji and his fellow villagers opened a hardware store. Due to the small scale, their income was not considerable. Coupled with the birth of their mixed-race daughter, the pressure on life is even greater.
Two years later, the domestic situation in Afghanistan was very good, and Aji decided to return to Afghanistan with his wife and children. Shortly after returning to Afghanistan, they ushered in a business opportunity. It turned out that a boss wanted to do import and export business, mainly importing raw materials from China and then processing and selling them in Afghanistan, but due to language barriers, they have not taken action for a long time.
After the boss learned that Aji had a Chinese wife, he wanted to pull Aji to work together.In this way, Liu Caixiang became Aji's business assistant. With their joint efforts, the business was booming, and soon their savings reached 3 million.
In order to expand business, Liu Caixiang also opened a foreign trade company in Urumqi, often traveling between China and Afghanistan. During this period, Liu Caixiang gave birth to a son and a daughter for Aji.
2011 Liu Caixiang, who was wandering abroad, decided to return to Qingdao to accompany her elderly parents. She used her savings to buy a real estate in Qingdao, and in addition to a villa, she also purchased a storefront house.
In 2013, their youngest son was born in Afghanistan. He had to live with his grandmother because no one was taking care of him. Except for the youngest son, the other three children are all taken care of by Liu Caixiang's sisters in China.
Liu Caixiang and Aji decorated the storefront she bought before, opened a supermarket and handed it over to their eldest daughter for care. Later, after the eldest daughter got married, they called their son-in-law to China for development, allowing the couple to run together.
2019, due to the changing situation in Afghanistan, their foreign trade business was greatly affected, and they had no choice but to suspend their business. They have never been back to Afghanistan since then.
The two who settled in China did not feel bored at all. Because the eldest daughter handed over the task of taking care of her daughter and son to them, they also took their lives into short videos to share with netizens. Aji would play football with his friends when he was fine, and his life was quite colorful.
Now, Liu Caixiang is 49 years old, and Aji is 43 years old. The two are still as loving as before. Their eldest daughter is already married, and their second son and third daughter are also in the second and sixth grades respectively. What makes them most worried should be their younger son who is still in Afghanistan. Here we can only send blessings to them, hoping that their whole family can be reunited as soon as possible.
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