In the third year of Xianfeng (1882), when Li Xianting was 57 years old, he suddenly got a strange disease, and all kinds of medicines were ineffective. All the famous doctors in Fiona Fang Bailey were invited and took a lot of medicine, but none of them got better. At that time, when people encountered intractable diseases, they invited wizards at random, and Li Xianting was no exception. The wizard asked, "Do you owe anyone money?" Li replied, "I have never owed anything." The wizard asked again, "What about the debt?" "What is debt?" The wizard said, "Have you made a wish to heaven?" At this time, Li Xianting remembered his big wish to heaven when he was rescued by the old ferryman at the age of twelve, and told the wizard about it in detail. The wizard said, "That's right. If you don't pay back in this life, you will have to pay back in the next life! " "So, Li Xianting made up his mind to build a bridge on this river and realize the promise he made when he was young. He invited famous bridge builders to design drawings. Originally, the bridge was designed to cross the river directly from the small water gate in Nanguan, but it was blocked and changed to cross the river at the downstream corner (that is, Xiawankou). Strange to say, after Li Xianting devoted himself to repairing the bridge, all diseases were eliminated and his body was particularly tough. He wants to leave a high-quality bridge for future generations, so he is strict with raw materials and technology. No matter how difficult it is, he never flinches. In the process of repairing the bridge, the family ran out of money, so he asked his son to sell the land and business. In summer, the flood washed away half the bridge. Li Xianting was very sad to see his efforts go to waste. He finally sold all the land at a low price to raise funds for building the bridge. It was pointed out that the original plan was to change the ten holes to nine holes, and a demon-cutting sword was placed under the third arch bridge. Two red stone dragons opposite the bridge were buried on both sides, and the bibcock was facing west and opened wide, symbolizing that the water from the west would never rise again if it rose to Longkou. At the same time, it will be great to cut the demon sword, and all monsters will never destroy the bridge again. He asked people to pull stones from Dabie Mountain to make the foundation stone of the bridge, burn high-quality big green bricks to make the bridge body, and buy rice porridge mixed with lime to make the mud mouth. After three years, Jiukong Bridge was completed in the fifth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1885). Nine-hole bridge is 95 meters long and 4.8 meters wide, with masonry structure and cylindrical pier. South four-hole pier has a diameter of1.46m and an aperture of 4.2m.. The pier diameter of the north five holes is 1.5m, the aperture is 4.4m The height of the south six holes is 6. 1 m, and the height of the north three holes is 6.4m.. When Jiukong Bridge was completed, Li Xianting was 60 years old. He went through a lot of hardships and finally achieved great things. On the day of the passage, he walked on the bridge he built, and suddenly fell ill with joy and fainted on the bridge. At that time, he died, and everyone carried him back to Li's hometown in Suzhou for burial. After his death, he didn't even have a monument, because all the money in his family was spent, and wars and bandits were rampant.
1973 and 198 1 year, the people's government of shenqiu county allocated 4 1 10,000 yuan for the maintenance of Jiukong Bridge. Because Jiukong Bridge is the traffic artery from Zhoukou to Linquan, there are often dozens of tons of large trucks driving on the bridge, which bears heavy traffic all the year round, so at 1998, the west side of Nanqiaotou collapsed for more than ten meters, and vehicles could not walk. 1999, Guo chuanxing, deputy of shenqiu county people's congress and director of Dongsheng cloth shoes factory in the old city, personally contributed 50,000 yuan, and Zhang, secretary of Nanguan administrative village branch, was responsible for the construction and restoration, lengthening the bridge by 4 meters and making the whole bridge 99 meters long. /kloc-completed in 0/9 days. Now the bridge body is basically intact, and vehicles and pedestrians are convenient.