Female-male sex: Salted fish forced to rise to prominence

Minister Chen frowned and looked at Madam Chen with dissatisfaction, his tone tinged with reproach: "Didn't I tell you to wait a little longer?"

Madam Chen naturally understood her master's thoughts. She also wanted to wait and see the situation. After all, Su Yu's great-grandfather, Taifu Zhao, was still alive. With such a background, it was indeed not advisable to offend him easily.

Madam Chen sighed softly, placed the bowl of soup she had just scooped in front of Minister Chen, and said softly, "Master, the Second Son and Nanny Yan have already gone to Taohua Alley today and told Su Yu about the broken engagement.

When she heard we were willing to compensate her family with some silver, she agreed without hesitation. She must have been really short of money at home."

Madam Chen paused, then sighed, "After all, the child's biological mother has been out of favor for many years, so it's understandable that she's a little financially strained."

Minister Chen was silent for a moment before he slowly said, "The head of the Su family, Su Zhengqing, doesn't look like someone who favors his concubine over his wife. I never expected him to banish his wife to the suburbs for so many years. That's really unruly."

"And this Su family's son, Su Yu, is truly a bit shallow. If he were to marry into our Chen family, a mere small sum of money wouldn't matter. He hasn't had his father's careful guidance, and has picked up some of the petty ways of women," Minister Chen said, frowning and looking dissatisfied.

Madam Chen echoed her master's words and said, "This Lord Su is really unreasonable. How can he favor his concubine and neglect his wife? He even fails to teach his own legitimate son well. He can't even handle family affairs, so how can he handle state affairs?" She shook her head gently, with a hint of blame in her tone.

Hearing his wife say this, Minister Chen smiled and said, "You guessed it right. He has been in the Hanlin Academy for so many years, editing books and compiling them every day, but he has not been promoted a level and is still a mere seventh-rank official." A hint of pride appeared on his face.

Speaking of this, Minister Chen couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. He was only middle-aged, yet he had already reached the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. His career was smooth and promising, while Lord Su had been lingering in the Hanlin Academy, unable to achieve greater success. This contrast gave him a sense of satisfaction.

Minister Chen, feeling proud, asked again, "How much silver do they want?"

Mrs. Chen was a little hesitant. She knew that this number might make the master angry, but she still decided to hide the truth.

She was afraid that the master would change his mind and no longer support the cancellation of the engagement because the silver was too much. She took a lot of effort to convince the master to agree to cancel the engagement. Last time, the master said he would cancel the engagement later.

She had originally had the same idea, but after her second son came to persuade her last time, the three of them all thought that Su Yu was really useless and far inferior to the Crown Prince Zhou of a different surname. They heard from their children that the Crown Prince Zhou wanted to come to Beijing to cancel the marriage with the Prime Minister's family, so it was a good opportunity for their daughter to get in touch with him.

Moreover, the second son repeatedly promised that he would persuade the Su family to quietly cancel the engagement. In the end, it was done. Although some money was lost, it was still worth it. After all, if the daughter could marry into a good family, it would be more beneficial to the development of the family.

So she just said: "Man'er and I have collected 10,000 taels of silver, and we are still short of another 10,000 taels of silver."

As expected, Minister Chen was not surprised. Instead, he said, "The Su family wants 20,000 taels. It's okay. You can withdraw 10,000 taels from the public account and put it on my account."

Mrs. Chen smiled and said quickly: "Thank you, sir. If our Man'er marries well in the future, she will definitely repay her parents and be filial to them."

Minister Chen thought of the piece of fine jade his daughter had given him. He stroked his beard, smiled, and nodded, expressing his agreement with his wife's words.

The Chen family finished their meal happily, while the Su family in Taohua Lane was also having their meal. After Su Yu finished his meal, he said to his mother and sister, "Mother, sister, I'm going back to my room to study first."

Su's mother said gently: "Go, don't tire yourself out."

Sister Su Wanwan also looked concerned. She was afraid that her brother would be unhappy about the broken engagement, so she wanted to go back to her room and rest early.

Su Yu said: "Okay, mother."

After saying this, he left without saying anything more, taking Xie An and his sister with him.

After Su Yu returned to his room, he immediately entered the space again. When he was practicing "Wudao Jue" this afternoon, he felt that his second level was almost critical and was about to break through. He wanted to continue practicing for a while and strive to break through as soon as possible.

He walked into the small couch in the wooden house, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, took a deep breath through his mouth, and then slowly exhaled, concentrating his mind and calming his breath.

Recite the second level's mantra silently in your mind: stand tall and upright, be relaxed in form and full of mind, be respectful on the outside and calm on the inside, be clear in heart and respectful in appearance, without any thoughts arising, focus your mind on the emptiness of the mind, let your mind illuminate your body, let your whole body be harmonious, keep moving, mobilize your spiritual energy, and let the spiritual energy in the space continuously fill your body and nourish it.

Finally, after running for who knows how many cycles, Su Yu could clearly feel the spiritual energy surrounding his body, desperately drilling into it and then being absorbed. When Su Yu opened his eyes again, he had broken through the second level of "Knot" in "Wudao Jue".

Su Yu once again felt the difference in her body. She felt full of strength, and particularly light and comfortable.

He thought it would be great if he could use his spiritual power to fly, so he walked out of the cabin and wanted to give it a try.

He concentrated his spiritual power on his fingers and tapped the ground with it. "Eh," his body didn't react. He exerted more spiritual power and his body lifted up slightly for a moment, but fell down before it was half a meter away from the ground.

Su Yu was a little disappointed. It seemed that his skills were too shallow. The second level might not be as strong as he thought. Perhaps the level of his practice was not high enough, so he could not fly with a sword.

This fourth move, though seemingly simple, actually contains hidden secrets. It is not as complicated as the third move, but it places extremely high demands on the practitioner's wrist strength and hand feel.

Su Yu took a deep breath and slowly injected the spiritual energy in his body into the wooden sword. Then, he began to rotate the wooden sword in his hand at an extremely fast speed, swinging it 360 degrees without any dead angle, forming a dazzling sword flower.

As he moved, the wooden sword danced in the air, as if transforming into a nimble dragon.

However, when he tried to make the sword fly back into his hand, he found that things were not going so smoothly.

The sword seemed to have lost control, and flew rapidly to the right like a wild horse. After spinning in the air, it actually rushed straight towards Su Yu.

"Uh..." Su Yu's eyes widened in shock. He had never expected such a situation to occur, and could only dodge left and right awkwardly, trying to avoid the out-of-control flying sword.

But the flying sword was so fast and it was chasing him so closely that he could hardly breathe.

Finally, after putting some distance between himself and the flying sword, Su Yu quickly used his spiritual power, stretched out his hands, and used force to block the ferocious flying sword. The flying sword collided with the spiritual power, making a crisp sound, and finally stopped in mid-air.

"I was so scared..." Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but looked at the flying sword in front of him with lingering fear.

He couldn't help but sigh, "Ah!!!! This sword practice is really risky. You need to be cautious when playing with swords."

For the rest of the night, Su Yu engaged in a relentless battle with the flying sword, sometimes chasing it, sometimes dodging its attacks, and sometimes attempting to control its direction.

Although the process was full of thrills and challenges, he always persevered and worked hard to master the essence of this move.