There are many castles built in the name of love, such as the Sky Garden of ancient Babylon, the Indian Taj Mahal , etc. There will be a legendary story behind those magnificent buildings.
The castle in today's story is called "Coral Castle". What's different from other castles is that most castles are built by kings and nobles, while the building of Coral Castle is only one person, some simple tools, and a heart of expectation.
Edward Leedskarin was born in 1887 in a small town in Latvia. Her family is not wealthy, and she is weak and sick. She has only received 4 years of formal education, but she often finds opportunities to read books and newspapers. She is always curious about knowledge. When she becomes an adult, she learns craftsmanship with her father and becomes a stone worker.
weak and sickly, and his family poverty caused Edward to be short, only in his 1.5 meters tall, weighing only 90 pounds, and his introverted personality, so he never had friends, let alone friends of the opposite sex until he was 26 years old. When they met Agnes Scufst, who was 10 years younger than him, the two soon fell in love and got engaged in private. Edward thought he could finally form his own home.
Unfortunately, on the eve of the marriage, the girl left and tore up the engagement. The sad and desperate Edward left his hometown and transferred to the United States through Canada. Because of inner pain and unacceptable local conditions, Edward got tuberculosis and had been fighting against physical and psychological diseases for a long time. Time was fast, and a few years passed. Suddenly one day, Edward said I wanted to build a "Castle of Love".
1923, Edward bought an acre of land in , California and built a house on it, but this was just the beginning. Except for Edward who went out after the need, it was difficult for his neighbors to see him, but the strange thing started after the construction of the house.
Soon, the neighbor was surprised to see all kinds of strange stone buildings appearing in Edward's house, either high or low, large or small. Everyone was curious, and they didn't know where these stones came from, nor did they know how he carried and carved them. The smallest stones cost several hundred kilograms, and the large ones weighed a few pieces. How did Edward, such a thin one, do it?
Many neighbors came up to ask Edward, but Edward refused to answer, and said to the neighbor, "Don't peep and peep," I can sense it when you peep. In the eyes of the neighbors, Edward is a thin weirdo. Everyone doesn't believe these strange words. Some people still observe them secretly every day, but the problem is that you can't see his people during the day, and you can't see clearly when you go to see them at night.
However, the disturbances of all kinds of troublemakers and neighbors still affected Edward's work. Edward decided to move, move the entire castle away, and move to Homestead, Florida. What's even more strange is that the driver said how the hundreds of tons of stones were moved into the car. No one knew that they were only responsible for driving away every morning. They had never seen who moved them and what they used to move them. When they arrived at the location, they could not see how they unloaded the stones. In the eyes of the driver, Edward was probably an applicant like Tesla, which was a huge rock weighing hundreds of tons.
Then the following time, Edward continued to build his "big castle" in a relatively secluded place until one day he opened his cost and started charging, from the initial 10 cents to the subsequent 25 cents. Everyone was amazed at how a person built such a big castle.
Until one day when someone asked how to build it many times, he replied: "I understand the technology of Egyptians in building pyramids." We know that this is just what he said, and until today we have no way to know how the pyramids were built.
Another day, Edward said that he was leaving and leaving here. He said that my garden came from "sweet sixteen years old". Only then did everyone understand that he was still thinking of her.
Finally, people found out that he died in the hospital. death certificate is "uremia". In everyone's eyes, he is a weird person. He doesn't speak or say what others can understand. He eats the same food every day, biscuits and sardines . He always talks to himself to the stone. He once said to many people: "Magnetism has life."
Maybe in his world, he doesn't care what others think of him, he just wants to say to the 16-year-old, "I'm still waiting for you, the garden has been built."
