Early the next morning, just after dawn, Yan Liqiang took the initiative to find Liang Yiji.
"Brother Liang, there is something I want to talk to you about. See if it's feasible?"
Although he was 100% sure, when Yan Liqiang said it, he still pretended to be a little hesitant and not completely sure.
"Oh, what's the matter?" Liang Yiji asked curiously.
"It's about us going to Ye Tiancheng's manor to look for something yesterday. We didn't find anything yesterday. After we came back, I suddenly thought of a way. Maybe we can give it a try. If it works, maybe we can find what Ye Tiancheng hid!"
Hearing Yan Liqiang say that there was a way to try, Liang Yiji, who was worried about this matter, suddenly became energetic. He looked around and quickly pulled Yan Liqiang under a cypress tree nearby. He lowered his voice and said, "What method do you have? Tell me!"
"It's like this, Brother Liang knows that I have a dog..."
"Well, not bad!" Liang Yijie nodded.
"When I lived in Wuyang Village before, I spent a long time with the dog and discovered that the dog's sense of smell was particularly sensitive. It's not for nothing that people say that dogs have sensitive noses. There were a few times when I played with the dog and deliberately hid things in a very secret and far away place, but what I didn't expect was that the dog didn't see where I hid the things at all. It only needed to use its nose to smell my scent to find out what I hid. I thought, if Ye Tiancheng really has something hidden in that manor, maybe I can take Huangmao with me to try and see if I can find it!"
When Liang Yiji heard Yan Liqiang's idea at first, he thought it was too creative, because it seemed that no one had ever done this before, and people didn't know much about and used dogs, and their uses were limited to hunting and guarding the house. Just like Yan Liqiang said, everyone knows that dogs have very sharp noses, but people in this world have almost no objective and complete understanding of how sharp the dog's nose is. But what Yan Liqiang said was a method after all, and this method was at least much better than digging up the entire manor and tearing it down to find the thing. Since there was no other way now, it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.
Thinking of this, Liang Yijie couldn't help but be moved. After thinking for a few seconds, he nodded, "Well, we can give it a try. Can you go with the dog today?"
“You can go anytime!”
"Okay, let's go now!" Liang Yiji is also a decisive person. Now that he has made the decision, he is ready to act immediately.
Yan Liqiang didn't need to prepare anything. He just blew a whistle, and the yellow-haired cat ran quickly to him, wagging its tail.
The two men came to the stable in the backyard, prepared two rhinoceros horses, and rode directly out of the county magistrate's mansion, while Huangmao kept running after Yan Liqiang.
"Can your dog keep up with the horse?" Liang Yiji, who was riding on the Rhino Dragon Horse, asked as he looked at the yellow-haired boy who was running slowly two meters behind Yan Liqiang.
"If we're in the city, there's no problem at all. If we're out of the city, even if we go a little slower, this dog can still keep up!" Yan Liqiang said with a smile.
Of course, these words were said to Liang Yiji, but in fact, with Huangmao's ability, even if the rhinoceros horse was running in the wild, Huangmao could definitely catch up. Although Huangmao, who was created by the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone, looked no different from an ordinary dog, in fact, it was by no means an ordinary dog.
Human beings, the most intelligent creatures in the world, were created from the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone. The wisdom energy points and bone energy points required for an ordinary person are 100 each. However, the birth of Huangmao consumed 50 wisdom energy points and 50 bone energy points, which is almost equivalent to half a person. Spending all this energy on a dog makes Huangmao very different from ordinary dogs from the moment he is born.
Yan Liqiang had taken Huangmao to the mountains to try it out some time ago. Yan Liqiang discovered that Huangmao, whether in terms of brain intelligence or physical strength and reaction speed, was not like a dog at all. He and Huangmao had encountered a wild wolf in the mountains once, but when the wild wolf and Huangmao fought head-on, Huangmao was much inferior to Huangmao in speed, reaction, and strength. In just a moment, Huangmao, as a dog, bit the wild wolf all over its body, and finally ran away with its tail between its legs. If Yan Liqiang hadn't deliberately wanted to let the wild wolf go, Huangmao could have easily tortured the wild wolf to death. From then on, Yan Liqiang knew that although Huangmao was a dog, he should never treat it as a dog.
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Yan Liqiang and Liang Yijie left the city gate, and the Rhino Horse sped up. After running two or three miles out of the city, Liang Yijie looked back and found that Yan Liqiang's yellow-haired horse was still chasing Yan Liqiang's Rhino Horse and running happily. He was slightly surprised, nodded, and said to Yan Liqiang, "No wonder you always keep your dog with you. Your dog is really interesting!"
"Well, if you are nice to it, it will be obedient!" Yan Liqiang laughed.
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After a while, Yan Liqiang and Liang Yiji returned to the gate of the manor.
The soldiers we saw yesterday were still stationed outside the manor and no unauthorized persons were allowed to enter. However, if Yan Liqiang and Liang Yiji wanted to go in, there would naturally be no problem.
After knowing that the dog running after Yan Liqiang was Yan Liqiang's pet, the soldiers were not surprised and thought that Huangmao was just following along for fun.
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Compared to yesterday, when the two men entered the solemn manor, the manor was empty. The soldiers were all outside and did not follow in.
"How do we start now?" Liang Yiji asked Yan Liqiang.
"Let's go to Ye Tiancheng's bedroom first and let Huangmao get familiar with Ye Tiancheng's smell! Then let's go to the study and let Huangmao smell the ink. I estimate that with these two smells, it will be easier for it to determine where that thing is!"
"Okay!" Liang Yijie nodded, and went directly to Ye Tiancheng's bedroom with Yan Liqiang and Huangmao, "Liqiang, it's up to you now!"
Yan Liqiang came to the bedroom, pointed at the bed, and said to Huangmao, "Go, smell it..."
After hearing what Yan Liqiang said, the yellow-haired cat ran directly to the bed, sniffed around the bed, then jumped directly onto the bed, sniffed, jumped down again, came in front of Yan Liqiang, wagging its tail.
Yan Liqiang opened the bedroom closet again, pointed at the clothes Ye Tiancheng was wearing in the closet, and asked Huangmao to smell them. There was a study not far from the bedroom. Yan Liqiang took out a piece of paper and a piece of ink from the study and asked Huangmao to smell them.
"That person hid something in this village. The thing has a similar smell to pine ink and paper, but it's not exactly the same. Huangmao, go find it..."
"Woof woof..." Huangmao barked twice at Yan Liqiang, then immediately lowered his head, wagged his tail, and sniffed the ground. He walked out the door while sniffing, and Yan Liqiang followed behind Huangmao...
Liang Yijie was amazed by this scene. "Li Qiang, can this dog understand what you are saying to him?"
"Well, I feel like it seems to understand..." Yan Liqiang said modestly.
In fact, not only can the yellow-haired boy understand what Yan Liqiang says, but if necessary, Yan Liqiang doesn't even need to speak, just a glance and the yellow-haired boy will execute Yan Liqiang's orders...
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The yellow-haired cat quickly sniffed the ground in the rooms and yards, turning around, while Yan Liqiang and Liang Yiji did not say anything, but just followed behind the yellow-haired cat. More than ten minutes later, the yellow-haired cat came to the back garden of the manor. After turning around twice, it barked around a stone weighing hundreds of kilograms beside the garden pool, and scratched the stone with its claws.
Seeing this, Yan Liqiang stretched out his hand without saying a word and turned over the big rock.
"Could it be buried underground..." Liang Yiji suddenly became alert and carefully examined the ground under the stone.
But the yellow-haired cat continued to scratch the stone with its claws and barked again.
"Brother Liang, Huangmao's idea is that there seems to be something wrong with this stone..." Yan Liqiang said as he began to grope around where Huangmao had scratched him. Then, right under the stone covered with green moss, he suddenly found a stone the size of a brick. The hairy moss on the surface of this small stone completely covered up the tiny gap between the two. Without a careful inspection, it would be almost impossible to find that this stone could be separated from the larger stone, and one would think that the larger stone could not be separated.
In the middle of the stone, Yan Liqiang reached in and pulled out an iron box sealed with wax...
(End of this chapter)