This is a true love story, the protagonist is called Liu Guojiang, in the 50s of the last century, when he was 19 years old, fell in love with a widow who was ten years older than him and dragged 4 children.
However, this relationship, whether from age or family background, was criticized at the time.
In order to escape the world's short and long life, Liu Guojiang took Xu Chaoqing and her four children into the deep mountains and old forests to live in seclusion, and from then on they were accompanied by mountains and neighbors with flowers and birds.
This stay lasted for half a century, until it was discovered by outdoor explorers, and their love affair was not known to the world.
Speaking of the scene when they met, the corners of Liu Guojiang's mouth rose unconsciously, he said: "I fell in love with her when I was 19 years old, in fact, from the first time I saw her when I was six years old, I can never forget her again!" ”
What kind of woman is this that would make a 6-year-old boy obsessed? What kind of story do they have between them?
One day in 1942, in zhongshan ancient town in Chongqing, Sichuan, firecrackers were fired in unison, and it was very lively.
This day is the day when the son of the Wu family in Zhongshan Town marries his daughter-in-law, and the bride's name is Xu Chaoqing, who is a famous beauty in the neighboring village.
Liu Guojiang was 6 years old, and whenever someone in the village got married, he liked to follow behind and join in the fun.
And that day, he also had the task of getting the bride to touch his front teeth.
There is a local custom that if a child who loses teeth catches up with a happy event and lets the bride touch his gum bed, then his new teeth will grow fast and neat.
At the instigation of the elders, Liu Guojiang stopped the palanquin, and the bride Xu Chaoqing opened the curtain of the palanquin and looked at him with disgust. The glow of the red hijab reflected on her face, looking shy and moving.
Although Liu Guojiang was only a 6-year-old child, he was still stunned when he saw Xu Chaoqing's glance: "How can there be such a good-looking person in the world!" ”
After Liu Guojiang was stunned for a while, he said stupidly: "Auntie, can you touch my front teeth?" ”
Xu Chaoqing looked at him, laughed, walked through the car curtain, and gently put his finger in his mouth. Liu Guojiang grinned and took a bite gently.
Xu Chaoqing quickly retracted his fingers and closed the car curtain. Before leaving, her shy and angry appearance fell deeply into Liu Guojiang's heart.
The palanquin left, Liu Guojiang stood there in a daze, and the adult next to him quipped:
"Guo jiang, what kind of daughter-in-law do you want to marry when you grow up?"
"I'm going to find my aunt!"
Liu Guojiang pointed to the flower palanquin in the distance and said firmly, causing everyone to laugh!
It was originally a child's word, but no one expected that this short encounter, in the dark, decided an unusual marriage.
Ten years later, Xu Chaoqing was already a mother of four children, and it was also in this year that her husband died of acute meningitis, and she became a widow at the age of 26.
After the death of her husband, the family's life plummeted, and in order to make a living, she supported the family by weaving straw shoes. Although the days are difficult, you can still grit your teeth and get by.
What really pains her is that many people attribute her husband's death to her, saying that she is a kef. For this reason, the mother-in-law did not have a good face all day.
Xu Chaoqing's suffering was all seen by Liu Guojiang, and at this time, Liu Guojiang had grown from a small fart child who lacked teeth to a flesh-and-blood young man.
He liked Xu Chaoqing, but the widow was not much in front of the door, he was afraid that getting close to her would bring her trouble, and the only thing he could do was to pay attention to her silently.
In fact, at this time, the elders of the family told him several girls, and he pushed them for various reasons.
It was not time to say it was time, but no one knew that his heart had been occupied by Xu Chaoqing as early as ten years ago.
If her husband hadn't died, he wouldn't have thought twice in his life.
But now she was single, he was single, and the little flame of love instantly burned in his heart.
Finally, he waited for the opportunity to get close to his sweetheart.
On that day, Xu Chaoqing took the youngest child to the Feilong River in the east of the village to fetch water, just when it was raining, the feet slipped, and the mother and son rolled into the river.
Xu Chaoqing could not swim, shouted for help, and during the struggle, a pair of hands suddenly hugged her, and she and the child were rescued from the shore.
After the shock was settled, Xu Chaoqing looked at the person who saved her. This man is Liu Guojiang.
The clothes of the three people were soaking wet, and Liu Guojiang insisted on sending them back.
After returning home, in order to thank Liu Guojiang for saving his life, Xu Chaoqing took her husband's clothes before his death, changed them for Liu Guojiang, and left him for dinner.
Since then, the relationship between the two has come one step closer.
Liu Guojiang would also go to Xu Chaoqing's house to chop wood and fetch water. Over time, the feelings of the two also underwent subtle changes.
At this moment, the root of the tongue of the outside world also chewed up: "You know what? The daughter-in-law of the old Wu family, hooking up with other people's little male dolls, is really unconventional and unruly! ”
Liu Guojiang's parents also firmly opposed them being together, angrily saying:
"There are so many yellow flower girls out there, don't want to run to a widow's house every day, you are going to lose my old face!"
"Whoever rules that he is single cannot marry a widow, I am going to marry her!"
The various obstacles from the outside world did not scare Liu Guojiang, but made him more determined to marry Xu Chaoqing.
At this time, Xu Chaoqing did not have the courage of his, and in the face of Liu Guojiang's fiery courtship, it was false not to be moved.
But she has too much to worry about, she drags four children, and she is ten years older than others, really want to marry him, is not it a pit family?
After thinking about it again, she found Liu Guojiang and said: "In the future, we still don't want to meet again, widows are not many in front of the door, you are old to my house, it is not good for you!" ”
"I want to marry you, I want you to be my palanquin, my bride!"
"What are you kidding, I'm ten years older than you, no..."
"I don't care, I'm going to marry you!" After speaking, Liu Guojiang hugged Xu Chaoqing tightly.
On this day, Liu Guojiang's sincerity touched Xu Chaoqing, and they made a surprising decision to elope!
Braving heavy rain, Liu Guojiang took Xu Chaoqing and her four children overnight and ran to the deep mountain forest at an altitude of 1500 meters.
Just lived in the mountains, there is no room in the mountains, no lights. They could only take their children to live in caves, with thatched bedding and the ground as beds.
On the one hand, the worst fright is the roar of the beasts at night.
At night, the children were frightened and cried by the howling of the beasts.
Once, Liu Guojiang took a wooden stick and shouted at the mountains: "We are good people, we will not hurt you, but please don't hurt the children, if you want to hurt, come to me alone!" ”
Xu Chaoqing looked at Liu Guojiang's back, the corners of her eyes overflowed with tears, at this moment, she was very sure: "In this life, this man, I have followed!" ”
In order to give the children a home, Liu Guojiang built a thatched house.
Then I dug a piece of land and planted vegetables and fruits. Without meat to eat, Liu Guojiang went to the river to catch some fish and shrimp.
The days are really hard, but fortunately, the ability to love is difficult for everyone, and the small days can also be regarded as supported.
In June 1957, a heavy rainstorm washed down their thatched hut. The family had to move back to the cave.
Looking at his lost wife and children, Liu Guojiang secretly resolved to build a brick house for them with his own hands.
When all was said and done, he chiseled out his own cave on the mountain, dug his own soil to make a chestnut, dug for three years, and finally burned out the green tiles, and built three tile houses on the spot.
After the house was completed, the children danced happily and cheered:
"There is a home, there is a home! We finally have a home! ”
Liu Guojiang is industrious and skillful, and the utensils in the family are made of bamboo and wood from the mountains. Even pots and pans are burned.
If he really can't do it, Liu Guojiang will go down the mountain to purchase some back.
Later, they had four more children, and saw that the children had reached the age of reading.
The way down the hill is too steep. In addition, after Xu Chaoqing followed him, he had not yet descended the mountain.
For the safety of the children and his wife, Liu Guojiang decided to manually chisel the stone steps.
Xu Chaoqing felt unrealistic and advised him: "Forget it, the mountain is so steep, I don't have time to help you, you can't chisel it alone!" ”
"I haven't tried it yet, how do you know it's not okay, you leave it alone, leave it to me!"
Since then, as soon as Liu Guojiang finished his farm work, he took the tools to the mountains to chisel.
Sometimes I go out at dawn and can only come back at night, and I eat at noon, and I also bring cold rice in the morning.
This chisel is 50 years, and no one expected that the impossible thing at the beginning really made him do it.
6208 steps, more than 20 hammers were broken, and 36 steel braze hammers were broken, which is the result of Liu Guojiang's 50 years of life.
Since Liu Guojiang eloped with Xu Chaoqing, no one in the village knew where they went, and the time passed, and they even forgot that there were still these two people in the village.
Until 2001, a group of outdoor expeditions, exploring the deep mountains and old forests near Zhongshan Ancient Town, accidentally discovered them. When they heard their stories, everyone was amazed.
No one expected that in 20th century China, there was such a god and immortal, living in seclusion in the mountains for fifty years, and even for love, he manually chiseled out 6208 steps.
Such love is not an exaggeration to describe it as "earth-shattering, weeping ghosts and gods".
Soon, the love story of Liu Guojiang's old and old mouth was passed out, and major media rushed to report it
Once, Liu Guojiang and his wife were invited to record a program, and Xu Chaoqing did not go because of his physical discomfort. The host asked Liu Guojiang: "What do you say to the audience?" ”
"I want to go home, but if I don't go back, I'm afraid that the bud valley at home will be eaten by monkeys!"
In fact, he was not worried about Baogu, but he was not at ease that Xu Chaoqing was at home alone, for more than 50 years, no matter how late he went down the mountain, Liu Guojiang would rush home.
As they get older, they become more and more dependent on each other. Liu Guojiang used to call Xu Chaoqing an old mother, and Xu Chaoqing always called him "young man"!
Liu Guojiang said: "Old mother, when I die later, you must live well, don't be sad for me!" ”
"I'm older than you, and if I want to die, I'll die first, and you'll have to die behind me, or I'll live alone!"
"Then let's go together, and no one should be sad, okay?" Liu Guojiang said with a smile.
But their wishes were not fulfilled.
In December 2007, when Liu Guojiang was working in the vegetable field, he suddenly felt dizzy and passed out.
"Boy, boy, huh?" Don't scare me! ”
Seeing that Liu Guojiang did not respond, Xu Chaoqing cried in a hurry, desolate mountains and wilderness, calling the heavens not working, calling the earth should not be.
Later, Xu Chaoqing braved heavy rain and stumbled down the mountain, not knowing how many times he fell along the way. When he knocked on the door of the third son, he was so disheveled that the son almost did not recognize it.
"Your dad... Your dad is dying!" ”
The third son called a group of people to send Liu Guojiang to the hospital, but because of the cerebral hemorrhage, the treatment was not timely, or he died.
Xu Chaoqing took her husband's hand, his liver and intestines were broken, and he said with tears incessantly: "Young man, didn't you say that you should go fast?" How do you talk without counting, what is the point of living alone in the world? ”
After her wife left, Xu Chaoqing was taken down the mountain by her sons, but her spiritual head could never return to the past.
Five years later, xu Chaoqing, 87, also died, and before dying, she instructed her to bury her next to her wife on the mountain.
Nowadays, the "Ladder of Love" has become a scenic spot in Jiangjin, Chongqing, and many young people who have come to chongqing, with the mood of pilgrimage, pray for a long-term love for themselves.
The story of the "Ladder of Love" has also been made into a movie and written into a song.
Although they are no longer there, their touching and profound love has always been sung.
At this point, the story is over, but a scene appears in front of you.
Liu Guojiang chiseled steps in the middle of the mountain, while Xu Chaoqing shouted at the top of the mountain:
"Boy, go home and eat..."