"Your Highness, we have two options now. One is to go directly to the official road, which is faster, but if those who ambush His Majesty are prepared, they may also ambush us on the road, which is highly dangerous."

"The other is to take a small path from the mountain. The path is remote and inaccessible. The possibility of being ambushed is very small, but the speed is slow. It may take a night to get around Longyou Slope."

Gu Zhao explained the situation to Qin Youzhen and let him make his own choice.

Qin Youzhen thought for a moment and then made the decision, "Go straight to the official path! My father's life and death are unknown, and as a son alone, how can I be afraid of hardships and dangers?"

This is the critical moment to win the heir, and a single step may determine victory or defeat, and thus life or death.

King Jing and King Cheng were both in Shangjing City. Once they learned the news, they left Shangjing City and headed for Longyou Slope. The distance was so close that no one might ambush and stop them.

When Qin Youzhen thought about the scene where he had gone through so much trouble to get to the big tent where Emperor Shouzheng was stationed, but Prince Jing or Prince Cheng walked out of the tent to greet him with a smile on his face, he would feel his scalp numb and his whole body going cold.

We must be fast! We must be fast even if we take risks!

Qi Si personally explored the road ahead.

Gu Zhao was riding a horse galloping ahead, while Qin Xinglie was still following her closely.

The prince, wearing Xiaohe's clothes, was in the center of the team.

Riding a horse at night is a very dangerous thing. If you fall, you may break your neck and lose your life. But at this time, no one thinks about this problem anymore.

"There's an ambush, there's an ambush!"

Suddenly there was a strange sound above the head, which frightened several imaginative little cranes and trembled suddenly.

Gu Zhao reined in the horse's head and looked high into the sky following the source of the sound, only to see half a bright moon passing through the clouds.

"Yes, what is talking?" someone asked tremblingly.

A black shadow flew down and landed on Gu Zhao's shoulder.

"There's an ambush! There's an ambush!"

"Be careful."

Only then did everyone realize that the speaker was actually a parrot. No wonder they always thought the voice was a bit weird.

"How could it be a parrot?"

"Is it here to report a message?"

"Sir, do you recognize it? Is it true?"

The big parrot stood on Gu Zhao's shoulder and said in a disdainful tone, "Have you never seen a parrot talk? Idiot!"

Even the well-trained cranes couldn't help but be shocked.

They have all seen parrots. The smarter parrots can imitate people's speech, but they only know a few words. But this one is different. It seems to be a spirit when it speaks.

Gu Zhao and Qin Xinglie looked at each other and recognized that it was the parrot they had seen in the sunset.

Aunt Wu and the others called this parrot "Flying General".

Gu Zhao tentatively asked, "General Feitian, how did you know there was an ambush?"

"The Feitian General saw it." The parrot raised one foot and plucked its feathers, replying casually.

Gu Zhao thought for a while, took out the dried meat he carried with him from his belt, and raised it in front of it.

General Feitian suddenly became energetic. He quickly took the dried meat into his mouth and swallowed it. He fluttered his wings and flew up. "Is Qin Youzhen here? Is Qin Youzhen here?"

The prince was surprised, but did not answer because he did not know what was going on with the parrot.

Gu Zhao was a little surprised, "Why are you looking for him?"

General Feitian landed on a nearby branch, tilted his head and combed his feathers twice, "General Feitian wants to tell him a secret."

"What secret?"

The parrot's round eyes rolled twice: "Are you Qin Youzhen?"

Without waiting for Gu Zhao to answer, it continued, "You are not, you are a young lady."

"Young lady can't ask."

Then it flew up and screamed "You are a bad guy, hair-plucking monster!" high in the sky above Qin Xinglie's head!

Probably because it was afraid that Qin Xinglie would pluck its beautiful tail feathers again, it flew very high. Except for the two parties involved, Gu Zhao and Qin Xinglie, no one else could understand what it was saying.

"Plucky monster, you can't ask." General Feitian muttered, and landed on Gu Zhao's shoulder again, "Is Qin Youzhen here?"

The prince himself said nothing, and Gu Zhao could not make the decision for him, so he could only continue to ask, "What secret does General Feitian want to tell Qin Youzhen?"

The prince frowned in the crowd.

The origin of this parrot is unknown, but Gu Zhao seems to know it and is chatting with it here. Has she forgotten how precious time is now?

Isn't the reason why Duke Huan of Qi became the king just that he returned home earlier than his brothers?

Wasting time here with a bird, where has Gu Zhao's usual cleverness gone?

The Feitian General laughed loudly, "The Emperor's secret!"

It raised one foot to show Gu Zhao. Under the golden ring on the foot, there was a small tube hanging from the golden chain, which was big enough to stuff a rolled piece of paper into.

Just as Gu Zhao was about to reach out and take it, the Feitian General had already taken off. "Is Qin Youzhen here?"

The prince couldn't help it anymore and said, "Master Gu, should we move on?"

Gu Zhao explained, "General Feitian said that there was an ambush ahead. Qi Si and the others have solved the ambush. It will be safer for us to go further."

The prince suppressed his dissatisfaction and did not continue.

Now, except for Kang Jian, everyone around him is from the Control He Division, and he has to rely on these people to reach the imperial court.

The Feitian General laughed again, hearing that the prince wanted to pluck out its hair and throw it into a pot of boiling water to stew it.

If a parrot with such an ugly smile was in the East Palace, he would have been thrown out long ago.
Chapter completed!