The Phoenix is Back - Chapter 227

Chapter 227 Contest Between Two Children
Seeing that he couldn’t keep Chu Yanzhi, Duke Lu sighed and walked back.

In the small garden, Lu Haiyang was still standing upright. The wind blew by his ears from time to time, but it still couldn’t disperse the sound that kept echoing in his ears.

Hai Yang, don’t force me! Don’t make me kill you!

Such heavy and decisive words finally came out of his mouth.

He remembered what Xiao Xiwei had just said and suddenly felt an inexplicable mockery. She said that in Chu Yanzhi’s heart, he and her had long since seen each other.

After all, he had overestimated himself and underestimated Chu Yanzhi.

“What are you still doing standing there! Why don’t you go apologize to the Crown Prince!” Seeing that Lu Haiyang was still in a daze, Duke Lu was simply a little anxious. The Crown Prince’s furious appearance just now was truly too frightening. He had never seen him lose control of his emotions before.

Lu Haiyang remained motionless.

“What are you still standing there for!” Duke Lu was furious and pushed Lu Haiyang hard.

Lu Haiyang finally raised his eyes to look at his father. However, what he said made him even angrier. “Is it necessary? Didn’t you hear what the Crown Prince said just now? He wants to kill me!”

Duke Lu glared at him hatefully and said with a shaking beard, “The Crown Prince is angry. Who do you think you are? Do you still want to get angry with the Crown Prince?”

Even if the Crown Prince and he usually had a good relationship, in the end, the Crown Prince was a monarch, and the distinction between the monarchs and subjects had been clear since ancient times. If the Crown Prince overstepped it, he would accidentally incur the great sin of exterminating the entire clan! Duke Lu managed to avoid the disturbance of the former Crown Prince and was once again neutral in the court. If he provoked the Crown Prince again, wouldn’t that be …

The more Duke Lu thought about it, the more frightened he became. The more frightened he became, the more he felt that his youngest son was not as calm as his eldest son. Seeing that he was still standing there without moving, he did not seem to have taken him in the slightest. As a result, he was even more unable to control the rage in his heart.

“I’m talking to you. Did you hear me?” Duke Lu shouted at Lu Haiyang with his pair of red eyes.

“Father.” At this moment, a deep and steady voice suddenly sounded.

Duke Lu angrily turned around and saw his other son walking towards him.

“What are you doing here?” Duke Lu frowned, the anger on his face still lingering.

Ever since he woke up from his illness, he had been getting closer and closer to the members of King Yan’s party. The Crown Prince had wanted him to change Hai Yang to the Crown Prince several times, but when he saw that the Emperor seemed to have some favor for King Qin, he had been pushing him back. In the end, no one knew what the result would be. The best way was to make preparations with both hands.

Lu Haichuan was not angry at all because of Duke Lu’s anger. In fact, there was not a trace of expression on his face. “Father, siblings were born. I heard that you and Second Brother were here, so I called them over.”

“Born? Is it a man or a woman?” Duke Lu’s eyes lit up.

Now that he was forty, he only had two sons, Lu Haichuan and Lu Haiyang. Lu Haichuan had been delayed because the Emperor had pointed at the daughter of the scholar Xiao Ji to him, so that he had never married again, let alone continued his bloodline for the Duke of Lu. Therefore, this child in Xiao Xiwei’s belly was equivalent to his first grandson.

“Father, it’s a boy.” Lu Haichuan replied respectfully with a faint smile on his face.

“Good! Good! Good!” Hearing that it was a boy, Duke Lu was immediately overjoyed. The anger that had just accumulated on his chest disappeared completely.

“Father, do you want to go over and take a look?” Lu Haichuan said with a smile on his face.

Lu Guogong nodded and waved his hand at Lu Haichuan. “Naturally! Quick, lead the way.”

Lu Haichuan nodded. Then, he turned his gaze to Lu Haiyang, who was staring at him silently. He smiled slightly and said, “Second brother, aren’t you going with me?”

Lu Haiyang stared at Lu Haichuan, his pitch-black eyes suddenly flashing with a trace of coldness. “It’s you … The person who tipped off Xiao Xiwei is you, right?”

He had already ordered people to keep an eye on the girl beside Xiao Xiwei. It was impossible for them to inform the Crown Prince. Other than Xiao Xiwei’s girl, he was the only person in the Duke’s Mansion who was willing to help her.

However, Lu Haichuan did not even raise his eyebrows. His tone was still calm and he could not see any flaws. He did not even change the smile on the corner of his mouth. “Second Brother, what are you talking about?”

“Lu Haichuan! The Crown Prince has already left! Do you still want to pretend?” Lu Haiyang interrupted Lu Haichuan sternly. His voice was cold and sharp, “How much benefit did Xiao Xiwei give you to help her like this?”

“Hai Yang! What nonsense are you talking about!” Hearing their conversation, Duke Lu unconsciously knitted his eyebrows.

“Father, don’t you understand now? It was the Crown Prince he notified that he intentionally let the Crown Prince see all of this. He is trying to break off the relationship between me and the Crown Prince! He and Xiao Xiwei are in cahoots!” Lu Haiyang turned around and shouted at Duke Lu.

Lu Haiyang’s words caused Duke Lu’s doubts to rise.

Perhaps, Hai Yang’s guess was correct. It was because he was drinking tea with the Crown Prince at that time, when two maids were talking outside the house, saying that they saw Second Young Master dragging Princess Yan’s heir to the secluded garden in the Western Garden. Before the girl could finish her sentence, the Crown Prince’s expression suddenly changed. Without saying a word, he forced the two girls to lead him.

“Haichuan! It’s really the Crown Prince you notified!” When Duke Lu thought of this, his gaze towards Lu Haichuan immediately contained a trace of dissatisfaction and disgust.

Lu Haiyang raised his hand and bowed to Duke Lu. Then, he looked up at him and said, “Reporting to father, it was indeed me who deliberately asked those two girls to say those words in front of the Crown Prince.”

Just as Lu Haiyang was about to send someone to call Xiao Xiwei out, Xiao Xiwei gestured for Xiao Xichun’s girl Fang’er to give him a message. However, the people Lu Haiyang sent to monitor Xiao Xiwei only noticed her actions as if she had instructed Hong Yu before she left. They all focused their attention on Hong Yu. How could they have thought that Fang’er would use Xiao Xichun’s production to pass on the news to him?

“Lu Haichuan, you finally admit it!” Lu Haiyang gritted his teeth, his voice wrapped in an indescribable chill.

However, Lu Haichuan only smiled faintly, “I don’t seem to have any reason not to admit it.”

‘”Pa!” Duke Lu stared at Lu Haichuan’s face and slapped him ruthlessly. “You bastard! Do you know what you’re doing? Even if you’re dissatisfied with your younger brother, you can’t do this! Aren’t you afraid of losing the entire Duke Lu’s Mansion? I’ve worked so hard to protect you in front of the Crown Prince, is this how you repay me?” Duke Lu glared at Lu Haichuan, his entire body trembling with anger.

“Father …”

“Don’t call me father!” Duke Lu interrupted Lu Haichuan harshly. At this moment, he felt like strangling him to death.

“Father, I’m doing this for the Duke of Lu!” Lu Haichuan raised his head and stared solemnly at Lu Country’s justice.

“Nonsense!”

“Father, don’t you know what the Crown Prince is thinking about Princess Yan? After the incident on New Year’s Eve, the Crown Prince clearly knows that the Emperor has been on guard against him. He has been acting very cautiously recently, but just a few days ago, he secretly contacted the minister to try to make Princess Yan the Crown Princess!” Lu Haichuan looked at Duke Lu and said calmly.

After hearing Lu Haichuan’s words, Duke Lu’s eyes unconsciously loosened slightly.

“Father, this is a coincidence!” Seeing that the situation was wrong, Lu Haiyang hurriedly said sternly.

“Tell your big brother to continue!” Duke Lu’s gloomy eyes swept across Lu Haiyang.

“Royal Father, you saw what happened today. Just because Princess Yan was injured in Duke Lu’s Mansion, the Crown Prince was able to say that he wanted to kill his second brother. If Princess Yan died in Duke Lu’s Mansion, what do you think would happen to the Crown Prince” Lu Haichuan stared at Duke Lu’s eyes and said word by word.

Duke Lu’s chest trembled.

The ruthlessness and resentment on the Crown Prince’s face when he left, he still felt a lingering fear in his heart when he recalled it.

Haichuan is right. For Princess Yan’s sake, the Crown Prince even risked the Emperor’s anger to give her a title. His intentions towards Princess Yan have been all over the court. Even though Hai Yang and his brotherhood for so many years, he had completely ignored her because of a Princess Yan. If Xiao Xiwei really died in his Duke Lu Mansion, the consequences would be …

He simply didn’t dare to think about it.

“If you don’t inform the Crown Prince, how would the Crown Prince know?” Lu Haiyang said with a gloomy face.

Lu Haichuan raised his eyebrows and coldly smiled, “A living Princess Yan has disappeared. Do you think the Crown Prince is an idiot? It seems like you have persuaded the Crown Prince to stay away from Princess Yan in front of the Crown Prince, right? Once Princess Yan dies, I’m afraid the first person the Crown Prince thinks of is you!”

“Hai Yang! This matter is ultimately your impulse! The relationship between the Crown Prince and Princess Yan is ultimately the Crown Prince’s own personal matter, what are you blindly meddling in!” Duke Lu angrily glared at Lu Haiyang and scolded him.

In the past, he only felt that his eldest son was reckless and reckless. However, he did not expect that his eldest son would become more and more calm and thoughtful. On the contrary, his younger son would become more and more disappointing! After listening to Haichuan’s analysis today, Duke Lu felt that it was the most correct decision to try his best to protect this son.

Lu Haiyang had long been dissatisfied with the Duke and Duke Lu’s desire to please them. After hearing his reprimand again and again today, his dissatisfaction with him that he had accumulated earlier erupted. “Father, the Crown Prince and King Qin, you can only choose one!” Do you think that the Crown Prince doesn’t have any dislike for you currying favor between the Crown Prince and the Prince of Qin? “He just can’t take action against you now!”

“What do you mean by that!”

Even if Duke Lu had such thoughts in mind, he would never allow these words to come out of his own son’s mouth.

“Father, I advise you to hand him over to the Crown Prince.” Lu Haiyang turned around and stared coldly at Lu Haichuan.

Lu Haichuan imitated his eyes and said, “Second Brother, although I’m on good terms with King Qin, I’ve never stopped you from getting on well with the Crown Prince.” Right now, the Emperor only has these two princes under his knees. In the future, no matter who the throne falls to, we will support each other. In the future, the Duke’s Mansion of the Lu Kingdom will always be able to preserve it! “Have you considered this for our Duke Lu Manor?”

These words really touched Duke Lu’s heart. For a time, his gaze towards Lu Haichuan was completely different from before.

It seemed that Haichuan had truly grown up and understood what was going on.

He wasn’t important, nor was his son. What was important was that Duke Lu was able to preserve his life in this tragic descent! This was the most important thing!

“Good! Haichuan! You really didn’t disappoint me! Good! Good! Good!” Lu Guogong patted Lu Haichuan’s shoulder forcefully and said.

Lu Haichuan respectfully lowered his head and said, “Father, you should go and see the grandson that your younger sister gave you first. He is still waiting for you to name him.”

Duke Lu remembered that Xiao Xichun had just given him a grandson, so he nodded repeatedly and turned around to leave.

Lu Haichuan raised his foot and prepared to leave. Without thinking, Lu Haiyang’s words sounded again, “So … Xiao Xiwei actually knew about the assassination on New Year’s Eve …”