Twenty-two-seven The White Swan and the Ugly Duckling on
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This was Ian's first thought when he came to the Imperial Capital. Compared with Alder's solemnity and rigor, the imperial capital gives people the feeling of grandeur and grandeur. In particular, the iconic building of the imperial capital, a tall tower that seems to reach straight into the clouds. Before entering the imperial capital, you can see the conspicuous building outside the city. It is like a sharp spear, standing upright in the heart of the imperial capital.
Whether it's Ian, or Eve and Green, the three of them can't be regarded as novices who have never seen the world. After all, Alder and Port Sofia are also famous big cities in the empire, but compared to the imperial capital, they are indeed much inferior.
Even Eve is looking at everything here with her big beautiful eyes, like a cute and curious baby.
The carriage only sent the three of them to the periphery of the imperial capital. According to the groom's explanation, horse-drawn carriages are not allowed to run in the imperial capital, except for the royal family or urgent reports. Especially to the carriage they were riding, driving through the streets of the imperial capital can be said to be a disaster.
So the three of them said goodbye to the groom who had been with them for several days, got out of the car and walked. Green couldn't help it for a long time, and he had long been fed up with the dry food he ate in the car, so to speak, and walked towards a restaurant with his eyes shining.
Originally, Ian wanted to stop him, but when he thought about it, he hadn't eaten anything good for a few days, so let him go. As for Eve, Eve never expressed her opinion, but just followed Ian honestly.
It was the hotel, and the small restaurant was almost overcrowded, and there was no place to find at all. And Ian didn't want to wait, so he pulled Green and continued to walk, and after walking a few houses, he found that this was the case, and he couldn't help but wonder a little, thinking that a place with a lot of people was really troublesome.
Fortunately, they quickly found a restaurant with a smaller family. However, compared to other restaurants, this restaurant is obviously more formal and upscale, and even the waiters are uniformly wearing white uniforms and white gloves, looking polite.
Eve pulled the corner of Raien's coat and whispered, "It must be expensive here." ā
"Well, here it is. "Ian is really not afraid of how expensive it is, in fact, he has a small fortune now. The gold in his pocket was heavy, unlike when he was in Alder, where he wanted everything but couldn't afford anything, and he could do a lot of things with this bag of gold now.
Eating is the first thing.
So Ian took the lead and walked in. The waiter at the door politely led the three of them to a small table covered with a white cloth, and Ian also took the opportunity to look at the other people in the restaurant, and found that most of them were well-dressed and well-behaved people, which was very different from the people in other restaurants.
So the three of them looked a lot shabby. No, it's just Ian and Green who are shabby, and Eve's looks are there, so they won't be any worse.
After the three of them sat down, the waiter served three cups of tea to the three of them before going to get the menu.
"Wow, wow, is this the Imperial Capital?" Green looked excited, "I've never enjoyed such treatment." ā
It was also the first time for Ian to come to such a high-profile restaurant. However, he didn't want to look like Green had never seen the world, so he pretended to be "I'm a person who often comes to this kind of place" and picked up the menu brought by the waiter to order.
Still, the look on his face betrayed him after catching a glimpse of the prices of those dishes on the menu.
"Bang".
Green was the last to put down his silver knife and fork and collapsed in his chair with a loud burp. There were five or six cleanly eaten plates in front of him, and Ian couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh, and this meal cost him more than ten gold coins.
"Brother Ian, where are we going to play next?" After eating, Green looked at Ian with burning eyes as he touched his stomach.
Ian frowned and said, "I'm not here to play, I'm here to find someone." ā
He came to the Messiah. The moment he left the port of Sophia, he set his goal, which was the only reason why he came to the imperial capital. But when he really arrived at the imperial capital, he was at a loss, how could he find a person in such a place with a population of hundreds of thousands?
He knew that the family of the Messiah was called Stuart. But in a place like the imperial capital, even the nobles are numerous, and he doesn't know where the Stuart family is. Thinking of this, Ian couldn't help but feel distressed.
In his distress, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Eve's face, and found that this little girl was turning her head and didn't know what she was looking at, and her eyes were full of brilliance. Ian was stunned, and looked in the direction Eve was looking, and soon knew what she was looking at.
At a dining table not far from them, there were two girls in white dresses. These two girls are different from other girls, their backs are very straight, their heads are held high, and their white necks are exposed, like two noble white swans.
"It's beautiful. Eve whispered.
"Well, it's beautiful. Ian thought about it, and only came up with one sentence.
"Because they're learning to dance. Eve said, "You see their feet are stretched straight, which is what only those who learn to dance have." ā
Listening to Eve's words, Ian also looked at the feet of the two girls. Sure enough, I found that under their slender legs, there were straight feet, which didn't look like they were deliberate, but made this action naturally. It's as natural as they always hold their necks high like white swans.
"How do you know they're dancing?" Ian asked.
"I've seen it. Eve said softly, "When I was in Sophia Harbor, there was a place dedicated to girls to learn dance, and they only needed to pay five gold coins to learn for a long time. I once leaned on the window of that house and looked inside, and I saw that they train like that every day. ā
Ian captures one word: everyday.
In other words, Eve didn't discover that place once in a while, and occasionally look at it twice. She often went there to watch them practice, but because she couldn't pay the tuition, she could only watch secretly, just like when she was in Black Rock City, she secretly learned alchemy.
"Then do you want to study again?" Ian looked at Eve with a look of encouragement, "I'll pay your tuition, you can go and study." ā
There was a flash of hope in Eve's eyes, but it was only a fleeting moment, and soon the light in her eyes dimmed. She shook her head and whispered, "Forget it, I've missed the best time to learn dance." ā
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