Do you believe in love?
At first I didn't believe it.
The so-called love is nine out of ten sadness, it is just one person's food, rice, oil and salt, plus another person's food, rice, oil and salt, which continues to collide in the trivial years, gradually becoming dull, either defeated by reality or time.
It was not until I saw the story of Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing that I suddenly realized:
has a kind of love that can cut through worldly vision, chisel a thousand meters of mountains, and can also withstand the years of flowing light.
01
lens turned back to Changle Village eighty years ago.
That year, Xu Chaoqing was 16 years old, wearing a red wedding dress and a head full of glow, sitting upright in the sedan chair. The wedding party beat the gongs and drums loudly, and the rituals and music were heard, but he was blocked by a six-year-old child.
This child is called Liu Guojiang.
There is an unwritten custom in the village. When a young child loses his teeth, he can quickly grow new teeth by the bride touching the gums. Therefore, Liu Guojiang was taken by his aunt and stopped him from the sedan chair.
Xu Chaoqing poked her head out of the sedan chair with a smile, and saw her bright eyes, white teeth, curved eyebrows and plump cheeks, as fresh and refined as a lotus in the distant mountains. She stunned Liu Guojiang at one glance, planting a seed called "stunning" in his heart.
The beginning of the story is always like this, and it happened to be unexpected, but the two really had an intersection ten years later.
Ten years later, Liu Guojiang had already grown up and became a strong young man. He looked energetic and seemed to have endless strength, but Xu Chaoqing was living a more miserable life.
Her husband passed away due to illness, leaving her and four children to depend on each other. Her mother-in-law was ignorant and determined that she was a foreign husband, which brought unrestrained disaster to her son. Even the people in the village believed it and pointed at her all day long.
One day, Xu Chaoqing accidentally fell into the water while crossing the river with her child on her back. She didn't understand the nature of the water and struggled desperately for help. At the critical moment, Liu Guojiang, who happened to pass by, jumped into the water and rescued the almost suffocated mother and son.
It was precisely because of this that the two began to get familiar with each other.
Liu Guojiang knew her difficulties and struggled to survive by woven straw sandals. He raised four children alone and couldn't afford salt. He sent her some food from time to time, helped her do some hard work, and tried every means to make her life easier.
After a long time, there were rumors in the village. They mocked and pointed at the two of them. Liu Guojiang's parents thought it was embarrassing and tried their best to persuade him to stay away from the widow.
But Liu Guojiang didn't listen or care, and ran to help do some hard work on his own. It lasted for four years. For four years, he tried his best to take care of Xu Chaoqing's orphan and widowed mother silently.
Long-term relationship made the two fall in love with each other, but rumors are more powerful than tigers. The small village cannot hide the news. The fingers behind them are difficult to ignore. They are destined to be together openly. After thinking about it for a long time, the two made a crazy decision:
abandon everything behind them, regardless of the world, and take their children away, search for a deep mountain without people to stay together forever, and never leave them.
02
Ideal is full, reality is skinny.
After hiding into the mountains, the first thing the two have to face is the most basic survival problem. The dilapidated thatched hut is difficult to shelter from the wind and rain. A heavy rain can easily overturn the fragile thatched hut.
There is no food in the deep mountains, so they can only rely on the seeds they brought from the mountain to open up vegetable fields, renovate the land by themselves, grow vegetables and food, and even build roads with one hoe and one hoe.
Ordinary people have long been retiring in the face of such difficult situations, but Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing did not. They insisted on using their hands to open up their own world in the deserted mountains bit by bit.
Liu Guojiang is indeed very capable and capable.
While planting a vegetable garden, he built a small road. At the same time, he found a large number of stones to build a house, and carried a large amount of soil to burn piles of tiles. It took him several years to finally build three tiled houses, and from then on, he was worried about the wind and rain.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner, and the paths leading to various types of things have been opened. The crops in the vegetable garden rise up with the four seasons, growing fresh vegetables and grains. The pigs raised in the sheds start to lay cubs, and the chickens in the yard start to lay eggs.
At this point, a paradise has been completely created.
During this period, the two of them also added two new crystals of love. One of them lived in the deep mountains, working from the sunrise and resting from the sunset. Watching the sun and the moon change, the four seasons reincarnate, forgetting the world, forgetting time, and being happy and free.
How crazy is the time, and in a flash, several years have passed.
As Xu Chaoqing gradually grew older, his legs and feet were no longer neat, so he no longer dared to go down the mountain, because there was only one small road on the mountain with an altitude of 1,500 meters that could go down the mountain, which was rugged and steep, and if you were not careful, you would be crushed to pieces.
Just to make her able to go down the mountain, Liu Guojiang made a crazy decision again:
He wanted to use an axe and a hoe to open up a safe road to the foot of the mountain.
No one can help him. Xu Chaoqing wants to take care of his children, and Liu Guojiang himself has to farm and grow vegetables. He can only open up the road in his spare time after finishing his farm work. The difficulty is comparable to Yugong moving mountains.
But he had the strength and spent more than fifty years, from black hair to white hair, from a young man to a sixty year old, he had broken more than twenty hoes and more than forty hoes, and actually carved out a "ladder" that went straight to the foot of the mountain.
has a total of 6208 ladders. He spent half his life, using a hoe to mow the ground one by one, just to allow Xu Chaoqing to go down the mountain safely. Later, Xu Chaoqing sighed:
"Of course I feel sorry for it, but he always said that if the road is repaired, I can go down the mountain, but in fact, I have never been down the mountain several times in my life..."
03
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01 In 2001, an outdoor expedition team in Chongqing chose to climb the "banpotou" mountain. During the climbing process, he accidentally discovered the ladders dug by Liu Guojiang. The team members were shocked and walked along the ladders, wanting to explore the source.
When I climbed to the top of the mountain, three large tiled houses suddenly came into my eyes. There were two old men sitting in the yard. It was Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing. The first sentence he said was "What year is this evening?", which shocked the team members again.
After learning about the story of the couple, it was even more incredible, and the story was spread beyond the mountains, causing hundreds of miles of sensation. The media came one after another, and curious people came to see it, which made the entire mountain boil completely.
Some people wrote the story of Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing into a song, named "Ladder of the Heaven", and some people made their story into a film that has been passed down for a long time, named "Ladder of the Heaven of the Heaven of the Heaven of the Heaven of the Heaven of the Heaven of the Love".
Decades ago, the secular world could not tolerate them, and decades later, the secular world was shocked by them.
Later, the two old men passed away one after another. Xu Chaoqing looked back on his life while he was dying, without any regrets. The only last words left were:
buried himself next to his late wife Liu Guojiang, and the two fell asleep together.
At this point, the two pioneers of the ladder fell asleep under the sanctuary. The ladder of love has completely become a legend. The statues commemorating Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing also rose up and were sung by the world for the sing of it for a long time.
What is love?
Everything is not as good as you, everything is you.
Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing are the best interpretation of love. People always like to sing the enduring love legend, but forget that the legend is also made up of the passionate stories of ordinary people.
We will eventually lose this short life. You might as well be bolder, love someone, climb a mountain, chase a dream, and create your own legend.
Finally, you might as well ask yourself, after reading the story of Liu Guojiang and his wife, do you still believe in love?
