Kuai Chuan: I don’t get along with my family’s golden finger.

They can be jealous of Jiang Che and hate Jiang Che. There is no problem with that.

They could even openly express their dissatisfaction with Jiang Che, and it wouldn't matter even if the father and the queen knew about it.

But all this is based on the fact that the prince does not know.

The prince has a very defensive temperament, but the only people who can protect him are those who are recognized by him and included in his circle.

There are very few people who can be recognized by him, Jiang Che is one of them, and he is still a very important one.

Strictly speaking, Prince Ning Xize is really very competent.

He is not bad to other brothers and sisters. He is strict when he should be taught strictly, he is kind when he should be kind, and he also shows a lot of care when he should be kind.

I just didn’t really take it to heart.

Few of those princes and princesses were fools, so they naturally knew that their status in the heart of the prince was not comparable to that of Jiang Che.

So if you have any dissatisfaction, you can only hold it in. The most you can do is try to express Jiang Che's language.

That's all I can do to avoid the prince.

Today, I was just too angry for a moment, and then I forgot the occasion and was caught red-handed.

Ning Xize actually understood the attitude of his brothers and sisters towards Jiang Che, and he had criticized it more than once.

It's just that Jiang Che is not his biological brother after all, so even if he protects him, he can't go too far.

At least you have to be able to live with it in terms of face.

So he just glared at them, and when they all became honest, he stopped paying attention to them.

Jiang Che didn't know about their eyebrow-raising lawsuit.

He was happily tasting the dishes on the table in front of him.

Banquets at Ningguo Palace are all divided into separate tables. There is a small long table in front of everyone, and only eight dishes can be placed on it at one time.

Whenever a new dish is served, the first plate on the table is removed.

Basically, there are eight dishes on each table at all times.

This means that if you chat more with others or socialize, whether you eat or not, a few dishes will be removed from the table.

In order to avoid missing out on the exquisite dishes prepared by Yu Chu, Jiang Che must try every dish.

As I said before, the number of people in the palace who can truly be regarded as royal chefs is limited.

For such a palace banquet, you can imagine the number of dishes that need to be cooked. Naturally, it is impossible for everyone or every dish to be cooked by the royal chef.

Naturally, you need to choose carefully if you want to complete the task.

Fortunately, the God of Cooking system is very powerful. As long as he tastes a little bit of the dish, whether it meets the system's standards or not, the system will give a review.

Sure enough, as he thought, only one of the first eight cold dishes was carefully prepared by the imperial chef.

As for the rest, judging from the system reviews, they should all be made by the chefs in the Imperial Kitchen.

It's not that the chef's cooking skills are not good, it's just that compared to the real royal chef, it's still far behind.

If you are someone who doesn't care much about anything, you may not care at all.

But in Jiang Che's view, the gap is extremely obvious.

Although he was anxious to complete the task, the dishes on the table were changed according to the rules. After carefully tasting the only dish that met the system requirements, he put down his chopsticks.

A palace banquet has at least dozens or even hundreds of dishes.

Unless the task is completed in advance, he will definitely have to taste it.

Even if you only taste a little bit of each dish, it’s a lot to taste so many dishes.

Therefore, his current situation is that he should try not to eat as much as possible.

While Jiang Che was tasting the dishes on the small table in front of him one by one, the other concubines in the harem were raising glasses to Ning Ji's birthday.

It's a pity that except when the queen and the prince were toasting, Ning Ji drank it all in one gulp.

He had no intention of drinking the wine offered by other concubines, he just raised the cup in his hand perfunctorily.

Even for the fourth concubine under the queen, he only gave it a symbolic sip.

As for whether the wine touched the glass or not, only he knew.

This move was naturally noticed by everyone at the banquet. No one dared to say anything. They just secretly lamented in their hearts that the status of the queen and the prince in the heart of the emperor Ning Ji was still unparalleled.

At the same time, many people also set their sights on Jiang Che.

Whether it is being able to enter the venue with the emperor or empress, or being arranged next to the prince.

This all means that Jiang Che, an outsider living in the palace, has a far higher status in the hearts of the three giants in the palace than other princes and princesses.

Naturally, many people couldn't help but get interested.

The first to bear the brunt of this was of course the family of Pingyuan Hou Jiangxuan.

Jiang Wan and Jiang Rong already had a grudge against Jiang Che because of the garden incident, and before the official start of the palace banquet, they complained harshly in front of Pingyuan Hou and his wife.

Seeing that he was so valued now, Jiang Wan felt even more resentful.

On the other hand, Marquis Pingyuan looked at the eldest son sitting next to the prince from a distance, with mixed feelings in his heart.

He used to have expectations for his eldest son, but with the appearance of Guo, he forgot about his pregnant wife, let alone the child he had been looking forward to.

At this point, he has nothing to say.

In his mind, it is normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines.

Even his eldest brother has his own concubine, so why can't he live with him?

Yes, he did promise to the old man of the Wei family that he could only take a concubine when he was thirty years old and had no children.

But that was just a verbal promise. Besides, he was willing to compensate his wife, so why did his wife and the Wei family insist on relying on that promise?

Not only did his wife hate him, but the Wei family was unwilling to forgive him. Even his eldest brother and mother scolded him for having no conscience.

But the more this happened, the more resentful Marquis Pingyuan became.

Except for the Wei family and a few scattered families, there is no wealthy family in the capital that does not have many wives and concubines.

Not to mention that he is still a noble prince, what's wrong with taking a concubine!

The more others stop him, the more he has to do it.

I am not allowed to take concubines. Anyway, my wife has passed away, so it is not too much for him to marry a stepmother.

Maybe it was just for anger at the beginning, but as time went by, even he forgot his original purpose.

In the heart of the current Pingyuan Marquis, compared with the overwhelming Wei family, he dislikes his mother and brother, who are not the eldest son raised by him. The current wife and children are a real family with him.

People's hearts are always biased.

Then he remembered what Jiang Wan and his brother said before, and his brows furrowed even more.

He knew that Jiang Che, the eldest son, was not close to the family, but they were brothers and sisters after all. As the eldest brother, he allowed his younger siblings to be bullied by others. It was really too much.

And Brother Chi from the eldest brother's family actually let outsiders bully his sister. It's really outrageous.

For a moment, the complicated thoughts before were all forgotten by Pingyuan Hou.

The only thing left in my mind was how to find an opportunity to lecture Jiang Che, and how to complain to my elder brother later.