Exile at the start? The princess is no ordinary woman.

"Just as I was angrily trying to get up and continue to teach her a lesson, a pheasant suddenly ran out of the bushes. In the blink of an eye, a small, shiny black object appeared in the princess's hand, and she made the sound you heard at the pheasant."

The moment the sound appeared, the pheasant collapsed to the ground, blood appearing on its neck.

As Qian Laosi spoke, he gestured with his hands to illustrate how Gu Nanzhi had taken out her hidden weapon.

"That hidden weapon was so small, less than the size of a palm. We didn't even see anything fly out; we just heard a loud bang, and it killed a pheasant. I'm sure there's no hidden weapon like that in our Great Zhou. It's terrifying."

However, faced with Qian Laosi's vivid speech, everyone began to doubt his words. Could he really be that amazing?

Although they all clearly heard the sound the night before, it was truly unbelievable that such a sound could be made by a small hidden weapon.

Qian Laosi naturally sensed the distrust of the others. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he might not have believed it either.

"Boss, everything I'm saying is what I saw with my own eyes. That hidden weapon was incredibly powerful; with a single bang, the pheasant's neck was pierced. Not only that, the princess also gave me a poison called Seven-Day Powder. Last night, I didn't go to relieve myself because I wasn't feeling well; it was because the poison was taking effect, and I went to the princess to ask for the antidote."

That's why I guessed that the princess knew about pharmacology. The reason you weren't told the truth before was because you were afraid of the princess, but today the situation is urgent.

Regardless of whether others would believe him, Qian Laosi still told everyone the whole truth.

As for whether they will trust him in the end, that's up to them. Besides, Qian Laosi always felt that even if others didn't believe what he said now, they would eventually witness the power of the hidden weapon on such a long road of exile, and then they would have no choice but to believe him.

"Boss, I'm saying this because I don't want anything to happen to Gangzi. Although we don't understand pharmacology, Gangzi's condition is not optimistic. Even riding at full speed for two hours, we can't reach the next town. If what the princess says is true, then Gangzi's life is..."

Although Qian Laosi didn't finish his sentence, everyone else understood what he meant. From that perspective, he was absolutely right. If they truly only had two hours and hadn't agreed to Gu Nanzhi's conditions, Chen Gang would have lost his life in this desolate wilderness.

Qian Laosi paused for a few seconds before continuing, "Eldest brother, because I saw it with my own eyes and didn't want to see Gangzi get into trouble, I chose to believe the Princess. With her abilities and what she just showed, just as she said, shackles cannot restrain her."

Furthermore, given the choice between exile and death row inmates, I believe the Prince and Princess know how to choose.

"Our goal is to escort these people to Junlan. As for the other matters, unless they are particularly serious, they won't have much impact. As for the other three families in the exile group, we can suppress them without them daring to cause trouble."

Based on his lingering fear from the poisoning the previous night, the power of the hidden weapon he had witnessed firsthand, and the fact that he had just seen Gu Nanzhi openly remove and calmly put her shackles back on in front of everyone, Qian Laosi became the only one who sided with Gu Nanzhi at this moment.

As the saying goes, a wise man knows when to yield, and he was that wise man. Even when faced with other escorts, he still chose to speak up for Gu Nanzhi and persuade them to agree to Gu Nanzhi's conditions.

The poison in his body was still there, and half the day had passed in the blink of an eye. If he didn't behave well, Gu Nanzhi wouldn't give him the antidote in six days.

In the end, it won't just be Chen Gang who gets into trouble at this point; he probably won't be able to finish his mission safely and won't be able to go home.

After all, that woman may seem gentle on the surface, but she can be really ruthless when she gets angry. She doesn't even blink when using hidden weapons or poison.

As Qian Laosi continued to speak, those who had been clamoring that Gu Nanzhi was forcing Gu Nanzhi to come and detoxify people, that Gu Nanzhi didn't understand pharmacology at all, and that they shouldn't believe her and should take Chen Gang to the next place to search as soon as possible, all fell silent.

Putting aside the other things Qian Laosi said that need to be considered, there is only one thing that is true: if what Gu Nanzhi said is true, but they choose not to trust her and do not agree to her conditions, then Chen Gang will definitely be in trouble.

However, removing the shackles was not an easy task. Even if Gu Nanzhi proved that the shackles could not hold her back if she truly intended to escape,

But after all, they were exiled prisoners, and the road to exile and the place of exile were not easy places. How could we easily believe that they would obediently go to their exile?

Everyone hesitated briefly, and then Old Cao suddenly looked at Qian Laosi as if he had thought of something.

"I remember now, the pheasant the princess sent over the night before last, I was the one who processed it. I saw that the bleeding area on its neck had been pierced with a small hole."

At the time, I was wondering how they managed to shoot the pheasant, and what they used to pierce it and create a small hole. Even if it was an arrow fletching, the wound wouldn't be like that, not to mention the princess didn't have any arrows at all.

It was only then that Lao Cao suddenly realized that, when things were put together like this, what Qian Lao Si said must be true, that such a hidden weapon really existed.

The group, who had initially looked at Qian Laosi with disapproval, now turned to Lao Cao with suspicion, seemingly wanting to confirm once again whether what he said was true.

Seeing Lao Cao's confident and enlightened expression, he finally turned his gaze to Chen Qiang, their leader on this trip.

No matter how much they said, the final decision rested with their leader. Besides, they were all deeply conflicted, finding it incredibly difficult to make a decision on a matter involving their lives.

There are risks in every aspect;

Chen Qiang was in the same boat. He was also extremely conflicted and unable to make up his mind. As the leader of this escort mission, he was thinking not only of his own blood brothers, but also of the other brothers who were with him.

Neither of the risks involved is something easily accepted.

Qian Laosi had been working under him for quite some time, and he knew the man's character well enough to know he wouldn't lie, let alone how he fabricated those lies.

In addition, after observing Gu Nanzhi, the most unique woman in the exile group, over the past two days, he understood that this person was different.

No wonder he did such a thing; Qian Laosi had run into her trap.

But truly trusting her claim that she wouldn't run away is also difficult. Moreover, given the special status of the Prince Yan and the power constraints in the capital, if Gu Nanzhi had only asked to have her shackles removed, Chen Qiang wouldn't be facing such a difficult choice.

But her demands also implicated the King of Yan and others;