When going to the Duke's Palace to attend the banquet, Su Ze and his party must pay attention to their dress.

What clothes to wear to the banquet is not a problem for Li Shasha, Fan Qian, and Zhang Lu. In their salutes, they have prepared several sets of formal clothes, even if they are not famous brands or trendy brands, they will not be accused of not knowing the etiquette when they wear them to attend the banquet. But when it comes to Su Ze, this problem is not ordinary.

Everyone knows that in addition to wearing school robes on weekdays, Su Ze is the same set of black narrow-sleeved robes, and now the only formal wear in the wardrobe is the black Yaobu suit sent by the blue gentleman.

According to him, there is nothing wrong with wearing a black Yaobu suit to attend the banquet, but after all, Su Ze has worn this suit to attend the royal family banquet, if he wears the same suit to attend the banquet of a duke with a foreign surname, even if no one dares to point fingers behind his back, it is inevitable that someone will spread rumors such as the Siegfried family's plot against the throne. The hidden danger of this kind of court contradiction is by no means what Fan Qian wants to see.

Fortunately, the mansions of the eight dukes were all concentrated near the palace, and they happened to pass by Su Mansion to go to the Hou Mansion for a banquet. So Su Ze went home by the way, and with the help of Steward Yi, he chose a light and slim dark red suit, which was just right to make a pair with Li Shasha who was wearing a small black dress.

As for the grade of this suit...... Since the completion of the Su Mansion, all the food and clothing in the mansion have been counted in the accounts of the royal family. The clothes that the king paid for Su Ze to prepare, of course, were all from the hands of famous artists, fabrics, tailoring, and workmanship, even Fan Qian, the prince, felt envious when he saw it, and he would naturally not lose face when he wore them to the banquet of the Duke's Palace.

On the way, Fan Qian said that among the eight dukes, Duke Bodhi's style was the most frugal. At first, Su Ze and Li Shasha didn't believe it, after all, the duke was high and powerful, why did he torture himself with idle eggs? As a result, when they entered the Hou Mansion, they didn't need green bricks if they could use stones in buildings, no fountains could be built if flowers and plants could be planted in the courtyard, and no sculptures could be placed in the mansion, not to mention the luxury goods that ordinary people were most likely to associate with, such as glass chandeliers, animal skin carpets, and famous paintings.

Although he knows people and faces, but as far as Su Ze sees so far, there is a Duke's Mansion in Nuoda, with hundreds of people up and down, and there may not be as many valuables in the whole mansion as his empty Su Mansion, which is really embarrassing for him......

However, because of this, Su Ze had a good impression of this Duke Bodhi who had not yet met, and he couldn't help but wonder why such a big man with the label of honesty would put on a banquet?

Fan Qian said: "This banquet is his little granddaughter's first birthday banquet, so it is not specially organized for us. I guess he just thought my performance in the House Challenge was okay, so he invited me to save face. ”

Speaking of this Duke of Bodhi, the reason why he invited Fan Qian to his granddaughter's birthday banquet was indeed because of Fan Qian's outstanding performance in the Academy Challenge. However, Fan Qian knew his political vision, so how could he go to understand the political vision of an inconspicuous prince? Therefore, he invited Fan Qian to the banquet, without any political purpose at all, purely because Fan Qian used new magic to break the shackles of the summoner's framework again and again. So he wouldn't have guessed that the would-be dragoon commander, who had refused the invitation of the other seven dukes, would accompany Fan Qian uninvited.

"This and this, this and this ......" Although Qi Gefei Hou Xin is healthy, he is old after all, and his eyes are not very good. So when Su Ze walked into the banquet hall, he first rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked at it carefully, and then put aside the guests who were chatting, strode forward and held Su Ze's hand, and said with a red face: "I didn't know that the quasi-dragoon captain would go to the banquet with His Royal Highness the Prince, and I couldn't go out to meet him at the first time, and I hope that the quasi-dragoon captain will bear with me!"

Hou Xin is old, his eyes are spent, and his ears are a little bad, so when he speaks, his voice is like a bell, and the exit of "Quasi-Dragoon Commander" startled the entire banquet hall silently. But in an instant, all the people sitting stood up, and dozens of pairs of eyes fell on Su Ze in unison, but no one dared to step forward to say hello to him.

However, don't think that this group of guests is as timid as a mouse, in fact, Siegfried Hou Xin is at the bottom of the eight dukes, and there are people who are capable of becoming dukes, why don't they go to the other seven dukes with royal backgrounds? At this moment, the dozens of people in the banquet hall are all doers that Hou Xin looks up to, not those high-ranking officials and magnates with deep backgrounds. With their identity, the impression of the dragon cavalry captain is basically still at the legendary stage, and it is natural that they dare not come forward to talk to Su Ze.

Since ancient times, the title of duke has basically been solidified in the hands of the royal family, even if it is the father and brother of the king's favorite princess, at most, they will send them away to a marquis, and they will never give the title of duke. Therefore, the identity of Siegfried Hou Xin, a foreign duke, is also one of the few rare things in the more than 600 years of history of the Zeks Empire.

As early as the reign of Nobel XII, the Siegfried family was deeply appreciated by the king because of the bloodless resolution of the imperial border friction by the Hou family's soldiers, and gave the title of earl to the current head of the family. Due to the trust and reuse of Nobel XII, the descendants of the two families have been companions since childhood, so as soon as Nobel XIII ascended the throne, he immediately married the daughter of the Siegfried family as queen. And the title of the Siegfried family naturally became a marquis.

For more than two hundred years, the Siegfried family, which was highly used, fought for the country many times, and never tasted defeat, and became more and more famous among the seven countries of the continent, and faintly became the second largest in the Zex Empire. At the same time, the royal family has become more and more dependent on the Siegfried family, and the frequency of intermarriage between the two families has become more and more frequent, and as a result, the power of the Siegfried family has snowballed and its position in the court has become more and more stable.

Siegfried enlisted in the army during the reign of Nobel XVIII, when his father was already a hereditary marquis of Nobel XVII. Surprisingly, Hou Xin did not rely on his father's aura to be domineering, but instead went incognito and used blood to fight for his own glory on the border of the empire. To this day, his scarred flesh can still scare young people in their teens and twenties.

As the saying goes, God treats every young man who dares to fight, and Hou Xin is indeed a lucky person chosen by God. At the age of thirty, he was awarded a first-class military merit, and as soon as he returned to the imperial capital to receive the award, he inherited the position of head of the family because of his father's serious illness. A year later, he married the princess, and as a result, his first child was a dragon summoner, and three years later he gave birth to a second dragon summoner.

As we all know, the Dragon Summoner is definitely the most important strategic resource in the Samene Continent. In order to expand the Dragon Knights, Nobel XIX did not hesitate to use the duke title as a bargaining chip to continue to show goodwill to the Siegfried family. On the same day that the two brothers of the Siegfried family officially joined the Dragon Knight Legion, Nobel XIX also announced in public that Siegfried Hou Xin was crowned Duke of Bodhi. And that day was the most glorious day in the history of the Siegfried family.

However, the higher you stand, the farther you can see, and the more painful the fall will be. Before becoming dukes, the Siegfried family could only be regarded as the most powerful relatives, and no matter how powerful they were, they had no right to interfere with the royal family's governing decisions. However, after becoming a duke, Siegfried Hou Xin had the right to participate in the governing meeting, so the Siegfried family naturally became a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of most of the royal family.

Whether a person can prosper in official fortune, in addition to his own ability, the most important link is not to stand in the wrong line. The Eight Princes of the Empire, seven surnamed Nobel and one surnamed Siegfried, are in the middle of the team, which is much simpler than betting on the size in the casino. Hou Xin obviously didn't expect that the seemingly radiant title of duke would turn the once prosperous Siegfried family into a depressed place that everyone avoided.

Then, in order to dispel the royal family's concerns about himself, Hou Xin strictly set family rules, cut all food and clothing in the palace, and deliberately kept a distance from those high-ranking officials. It is precisely because of this that he did not invite Su Ze when he invited Fan Qian to his granddaughter's birthday party. It wasn't until now that he saw Su Ze himself with his own eyes that he showed a kind but sharp smile - in Su Ze, there seemed to be a shadow of him galloping on the battlefield back then!