Xiu Dao looked at the direction where the graceful figure disappeared with a smile on his face, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. Xiu Lian shook her head straight, and her parents often showed their love without warning, and they never care about the time and place. It was really hard for them to maintain the degree of love for more than 20 years after they were married.

"Father, mother is gone." Xiu Lian reminded him.

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"Father!" Xiu Lian had no choice but to increase her voice.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Xiu Dao came to his senses.

"Mother, she's gone away."

"Oh~" Xiu Dao was not embarrassed either, "By the way, Lian'er, you haven't been here for a long time, right? Are you satisfied with the repair of the room arranged for you?"

"Satisfied, is why everything inside is pink?"

"Oh~ This is what your mother sent to buy. She said that at your age, this color should be matched with, hahaha~" Xiu Dao smiled and shook his head, "Do you don't like it? If you don't like it, you can change it."

"I like it, why don't I like what my mother prepared for me? I'm just a little strange."

"Well~ Just like it," Xiu Dao nodded, "By the way, we will live in the imperial capital for some time this time. What are your plans?"

"Father, you asked this, I'm afraid you've arranged it for me?" Xiu Lian said to her father with a speechless look and asked without answering the question.

"Haha~" Xiu Dao laughed dryly, "It was not what I arranged, it was I asked you, Uncle Carls, to help you. You are at the age of studying in a higher education college. I will ask him to help you watch and arrange it. Then you can go."

"Can I say no?"

"How can you not go? This was what your Uncle Carls said you would arrange for you in person."

"When did Uncle Carls become so available!"

"Hahaha~" Xiu Dao's eyes had a strange smile, "He will definitely be free in this matter, and he will definitely arrange you to the Royal Higher College of the Imperial Capital."

"Imperial Capital Royal Higher College?" Xiu Lian frowned slightly, looked at her father in confusion and asked, "This is the center of power training in the empire. Isn't it a higher college that only accepts the children of the royal family and the princess?"

"Yes, it's that college. It's my daughter. It's so well-informed!"

"I'm afraid no one on the entire eastern continent doesn't know?"

"This~ I didn't know about it back then." Xiu Dao pointed at himself and said, his tone was quite proud.

Xiu Lian shook her head speechlessly.

"But you are wrong. The Imperial Capital Royal Higher Education College does not only accept children of royal families and dukes. I also studied there when I was as old as you!" Xiu Dao said with a little emotion.

"Hmm? My father has also studied there? Why have I never heard my father mention it?" Xiu Lian raised her head and asked with her eyes as beautiful as her mother.

"Or what do you think your Uncle Carls and I are at the same window?" Xiu Dao smiled and asked back as Xiu Lian.

"Yes, Uncle Carls was a prince at that time, and you were about the same age." Xiu Lian immediately realized, punched her fist at her palm, and then asked, "But why did Uncle Carls arrange me to go to that school?"

Xiu Dao pointed to the two pieces of information in Xiu Lian's arms, "Because of them." He pointed to Xiu Lian again, "It's because of you."

"What does it have to do with them? They are going to be appointed as the crown prince?" Xiu Lian lowered her head and thought, but she couldn't figure it out.

Xiu Dao did not rush to explain, but walked to the tea table under his daughter's gaze and poured himself the sixth cup of tea, and savored it carefully. "It is time to let you know the origin of our Xiu family and their Greerman family." Xiu Dao turned to look at Xiu Lian with a tea cup, "As early as more than 300 years ago, when His Majesty Eragon was the era of His Majesty Eragon, our two families were already very familiar. Xiu Lin, the ancestor who was traveling abroad, met His Majesty Eragon, who had just begun to emerge. The two hit it off and admired each other at first sight, laid the foundation for the unification of the continent later."

"Why haven't I seen this history in history books?" Xiu Lian asked thinking.

"It was the ancestors who asked the historians not to write it in. Besides, the nature of our Xiu family is not suitable to enter the stage of history." Xiu Tao raised the teacup and blowing away the tea leaves floating on the tea water. "The mainland finally completed the unification with the help of His Majesty Eragon and the secret assistance of the prophets. I will not explain the process in detail. During the early days of the empire, the ancestors helped His Majesty Eragon build a military office based on Xiu family. However, when everything was on the right track, His Majesty Eragon's desire to control became stronger and stronger, and was originally intimate and unfamiliar.

The two men finally had a gap. Finally, the ancestor left the imperial capital and returned to the old house before His Majesty Eragon was about to attack him. "There were many years left and then, and the ancestor was busy working on the old house. As the head of the family at that time, he was busy working on the family matters. Until one day, His Majesty Eragon sent a letter. After reading the letter, the ancestor did not agree to His Majesty Eragon's request, but sent his son to the imperial capital. Then his son entered the imperial capital Royal Higher College."

"What was written in the letter?" In fact, Xiu Lian had roughly guessed it.

The Taoist blew another sip of tea, "The content of the letter is roughly that His Majesty Eragorn wants his ancestors to go to the imperial capital and help him choose one of the five princes and train them as the successor."

"Sure enough." It's similar to Xiu Lian's guess.

"From then on, whenever their Greilman family wants to become a crown prince, our Xiu family must participate, so that every generation of his Majesty in their Greilman family has maintained a good friendship with our Xiu family." As he said, Xiu Tao drank all the tea in the teacup in one gulp. "My grandfather and Carls' grandfather, my father and Carls' father, and I and Carls's both," Xiu Tao paused and looked at Xiu Lian's eyes, "It's your turn now."

"I still don't understand why they want to establish a crown prince and I want to study at the Imperial Capital Royal Academy?"

Xiu Dao put the teacup back on the tea table behind him and looked at Xiu Lian again, saying, "Since ancient times, both the emperors of big countries and small countries have been a major event, and they are not easy to be careless. After all, this is related to the future destiny of the country. It cannot be too ostentatious and cause unnecessary trouble, but it cannot be too low-key to avoid the prince being plotted against. The degree of this is difficult to grasp, and even His Majesty Eragon, who unified the continent, was unable to grasp it well." Xiu Dao's eyes moved from Xiu Lian and looked at the rain outside the hall, "The appearance of our Xiu family is playing the role of this degree. Starting from the son of our ancestors, as long as our Xiu family enters the Royal Higher College of the Imperial Capital, they are sending a message to the prince and the children of the Duke Earl who are studying there, reminding them that His Majesty is preparing to become the crown prince."

"So that's the case. This will not be too ostentatious or too low-key." Xiu Lian figured it out after hearing the words of Xiu Tao.

"This thing should have been done by Hua'er, but you also know his temperament. He doesn't like being merciless to do things he doesn't like to do." Xiu Dao moved his eyes back from the rain to Xiu Lian. "And it's also that what the kid Carls sold in the gourd is still unclear. You can't push Hua'er into the fire pit. You must know that it's not only the twin princes in the Imperial Capital Royal Higher Education College, but also the princess, Hua'er's nominal fiancée." Xiu Dao thought so in his heart, but he didn't tell these to Xiu Lian.

"Actually, I don't like it either, father." Xiu Lian looked at Xiu Tao with a little disappointed feeling.

Xiu Dao felt the mood of Xiu Lian and walked to her side. "Lian'er, there is another aspect of why I asked you to go. I also have selfish intentions. I don't want my Lian'er to stay at home during these days when she lived in the imperial capital, just like in the old house. I want to arrange a place for you so that you can go out and go out for a walk, and maybe you can make some good friends of the same age." Xiu Dao said kindly while stroking her hair, "I don't want my daughter to miss such a beautiful flower season and rainy season."

The gentle words and actions of Xiu Dao completely dissolved the loss in Xiu Lian's heart. Xiu Lian's voice was choked and called out softly, "Father..."

Xiu Dao gently stroked Xiu Lian's back and said half-jokingly, "Tomorrow, your mother and I will accompany you to buy some new clothes and dress up our Lian'er beautifully. Then I will study and compare all the noble ladies."

"Father, am I going to study the day after tomorrow?"

"It's not the day after tomorrow. That guy Carls is talking about the beginning of next year."

"That's too early..." Xiu Lian was speechless.

"Father never thought it was too early to dress up his daughter beautifully." Xiu Dao looked at Lian'er and said with a smile, "Besides, your mother hasn't come to the imperial capital for a long time, and she hasn't had enough shopping today. She agreed to let her go tomorrow."

Seeing that his father threw his mother as a reason, Xiu Lian was not willing to refuse, so he could only nod and respond.

After chatting about traveling tomorrow for a while, Lian'er changed the topic, "Father, when do you plan to do something about Ruolin? You agreed to someone else."
Chapter completed!