Star Gate

Hongying's party must have searched for these places, but Li Hao judged that these people didn't know what the stone knife looked like, and maybe they didn't even know that the Zhang family's knife was a stone.

Just like Li Hao, if he told others that the cross on his chest was the sword of the Li family in the slang, no one would believe him.

Cognitive barriers!

The Li family's sword and the Zhang family's sword, just listening to the slang, might feel that these swords are treasures that cut iron like mud, not to mention shining light, they must be fierce and domineering.

But in fact, the Li family's sword is just a small jade pendant, and the Zhang family's knife is even more inconspicuous stone.

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10 minutes, two 10 minutes...

Li Hao was a little anxious and couldn't find him.

Is it gone?

Did the Hongying party find it, or did the Zhang family really get lost? Not only did he not find it, but the black panther sniffed it, but he couldn't find it either.

If the panther is close, it should be able to smell something, right?

"no!"

Li Hao can't stay here forever, just scaring away the other party doesn't mean that the other party won't come back, not to mention that he can't keep looking here, he will be discovered sooner or later, and he has other purposes.

He stood in the middle of the courtyard, looked at the main room and the second bedroom, and thought, if he were Zhang's father, where would he put this stone?

Only by taking on the role of Zhang's father can he be judged.

"At the beginning, Uncle Zhang didn't care at all, he just threw it away casually. Later, when I came again, I didn't care if there was the stone knife on the ground. But then I came to Zhang's house many times, and I didn't seem to see it. If it was still there, after so many years , I should see it."

"Uncle Zhang will not treasure it in all likelihood, otherwise he wouldn't have had that attitude at the time, and he would have lost it too casually."

He quickly recalled everything that year, although his memory was a little fuzzy.

But thinking about it now, I can still vaguely remember a little bit.

"Xiaoyuan was beaten up. It seems that he didn't go out to play with me for two or three days. After that, I will come again... Maybe it has been a few days. Could it be that the stone knife was taken away by Uncle Zhang during that time? gone?"

"What would he do if he took a stone?"

"It is likely that during that period, the stone knife disappeared, otherwise, after so many years, I would definitely see it again."

Li Hao thumped his head.

It was too young for him to remember.

What happened in the few days in between, or would Uncle Zhang feel that the stone was in the way and just throw it away?

If it is really lost...then there is no way to find it.

A stone, more than ten years old, has long since been swept away.

"The black panther can't even smell... Is it too far away, or is the sense of smell disturbed?"

"The distance is too far, so needless to say, if the sense of smell is disturbed..."

Li Hao's eyes moved suddenly.

The sense of smell is disturbed, and two places are most likely.

First, the kitchen.

Second, the latrine!

This kind of old house used to be a latrine when I was a child, not a toilet.

Of course, it's better not to be like this.

"By the way... Xiaoyuan's latrine and kitchen seem to have been repaired when I was a child. A stone... won't be filled in, right?"

Thinking of this, Li Hao had some guesses and some uncertainties.

This is the greatest possibility!

If neither of those places is there, it's really impossible to find it.

"After Uncle Zhang beat Xiao Yuan, did he fix the kitchen first, or the latrine first?"

Can not remember!

But at this moment, Li Hao judged that if the stone knife was still in Zhang's house, there was a high probability that it was in these two places.

Without further hesitation, he immediately walked towards the kitchen.

As for the latrine... unless the kitchen can't be found, he won't go there, and if the stone knife is really in the latrine... Li Hao doesn't want to soak it in water for the black panther to drink.

Anyway, he has the Star Sword!

"Hope is in the kitchen!"

"Black Panther, come with me!"

Li Hao called out quickly, and the panther hurriedly followed in.

The kitchen has not been used for many years, and the door is opened to enter. The kitchen is still a large pot stove. The iron pot on it has long been rusted, and the pot lid has been rotten.

"Smell and see!"

Li Hao pointed to the stove: "Black Panther, don't be disturbed by the smell!"

The kitchen has not been used for many years, but because it has been used for a long time, there is still a faint smell of smoke. This smell may have disturbed the black panther, and there is also some lingering smell of oily smoke.

Hei Panther was indeed a little dizzy in the kitchen, mainly because there was still a strong musty smell in the kitchen.

The panther had also come in and smelled it before, but found nothing.

At this time, I heard from Li Hao that the black panther moved quickly and jumped onto the stove, smelling it little by little.

Soon, the nose was stained with a layer of black wood ash.

And Li Hao was not idle either. In the kitchen, you don't need to look at the places that were repaired later, but mainly look at the places that were repaired more than ten years ago. Only those places may have used stone knives.

In such a place, the forces behind Hongying may not be willing to look at it.

The Zhang family's knife, the Zhang family will hide it here?

Of course, Li Hao took a quick look around and found that Hongying and the forces behind him probably really took it very seriously. The kitchen also showed signs of being turned, and even the ashes under the stove had been stirred.

The ashes that have been silent for many years are not what they are now, and may have been turned over.

"Sure enough, the other party is also looking for it, even the hearth is not spared, it is quite dedicated!"

Will Zhang's family heirloom be hidden in the ashes?

If it were Li Hao, I'm afraid he wouldn't think so. The other party still searched, which shows that he is quite rigorous.

After waiting for a while, the panther still found nothing.

Li Hao was a little disappointed. Could it be that he was really in the latrine?

That's disgusting too!

Just as he was thinking about it, Li Hao's eyes moved slightly, and he suddenly looked at the big chimney on the stove. The kitchens of this kind of old houses are all equipped with a brick chimney. Law to wait.

"Um... chimney?"

Li Hao suddenly remembered something, was this chimney built after Uncle Zhang beat Xiao Yuan?

He vaguely seems to have some impressions!

The black panther is not too big, and it is not tall. It has been smelling on the stove, but it can't climb a chimney as tall as a person.

"Is it here?"

Li Hao moved instantly, swiftly, jumped onto the stove, grabbed the panther with one hand, and said in a low voice, "Smell it!"

He carried the panther and used it as a detector.

As for the black panther, the eyes of the two dogs were full of helplessness.

The nose twitched, following Li Hao's arm all the way up to smell.

Walking up the stove for more than one meter, the black panther's nose suddenly twitched, and a somewhat familiar smell gradually permeated the tip of the nose.

"Wang Wang!"

Panther's eyes suddenly lit up.

And Li Hao also has bright eyes!

Found?

Really here!

The chimney... This is probably beyond the imagination of the forces behind Hongying. Who would have thought that the Zhang family would build the ancestral knife into the chimney.

They might have even looked down the chimney!

Or Hong Ying simply checked, Hong Ying is invisible and matterless, Li Hao doesn't know if the other party can escape through the wall, but the other party should have searched both the wall and the ground, but their target may be cracks, interlayers, boxes, Treasure boxes and such.

They don't think that the knife they care about is just a stone.

Li Hao's eyes lit up, staring at a slightly raised spot on the chimney, is the stone knife on it?

The mottled lime walls have fallen off.

Some of the bricks inside the chimney were exposed.

Li Hao stretched out his hand to touch it, and some of the limestone walls fell off again. The next moment, a soil-gray stone appeared on the chimney, which was not completely exposed, but seeing the incomplete shape, Li Hao's eyes lit up completely!

"This is it!"

Li Hao's heart was beating, and this was it. Although it wasn't fully exposed, a vague appearance had emerged in Li Hao's memory. It was like a stone with a knife, not too big, just a little bigger than a fist.

"Uncle Zhang...you really respect your ancestors!"

Li Hao suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, because of this stone, he beat up his son.

Good guy, when you turn around to repair the kitchen at home, you put the stones left by your ancestors into it. You don't respect your ancestors as much as you do!

If the ancestors of your Zhang family were still alive, they would probably die of anger.

Among the Eight Great Families, Li Hao didn't know what happened to the others. Anyway, the sword of the Li family had been passed down as a family heirloom. Li Hao felt that it was not easy for the stone of the Zhang family to be passed down!

Maybe, it wasn't like a stone back then?

It's just that it gradually petrified later, and by Zhang's father's generation, it was completely turned into stone?

Before he had time to think about it, and he didn't have the heart to think about it, Li Hao looked at the stone embedded in the chimney in front of him and frowned slightly.

found it!

However, it is not easy to take!

It's not that it can't be taken, the key is that after taking the stone knife, the traces on the chimney are obvious.

After staying in the inspection department for a year, Li Hao is still experienced. Once you move this place, Hong Ying and the people behind him come back, and you must check it out to see what Li Hao's purpose is.

A stone is missing from the chimney, maybe the other party will react soon!

If Li Hao was still a student of the ancient academy at that time, he would have taken the stone knife immediately at this moment. When Hong Ying came back, he would probably have thought immediately that the Zhang family's knife might be the stone that was taken away. Then Li Hao will be in big trouble!

At that time, Hongying will know that the stone knife is in Li Hao's hands, and it will cause a lot of trouble for herself if nothing happens.

It can even be judged that Li Hao has already guessed something, and even knows about the Eight Great Families, so he can reveal all his old background at once!

"How to do?"

Li Hao thought quickly, since he saw it, he couldn't ignore it, so he put the stone knife here. He felt that the Zhang family's knife was not only a treasure, but also must have other functions.

The Hongying side attaches great importance to it, otherwise it would be impossible to take the risk and keep monitoring here a year later.

Li Hao frowned, took away the stone knife, and filled it with another stone?

But the other party found out, but there is no more than 300 taels of silver here!

The old and new traces are still different.

"The only option is to completely destroy the body and traces, destroy the evidence, and make it impossible for the other party to find out. The best way is naturally to destroy the chimney... But wouldn't that be too deliberate?"

"Find a stone with the same shape, preferably a stone with a similar shape... and then destroy the chimney. Even if the other party restores it afterwards, there will be no missing stone, so something will be discovered..."

As an inspector, Li Hao still has basic professional skills, how to destroy evidence, how to create false evidence, and confuse the other party, these are all he has learned and seen in the past year.

If it was simply destroyed, and Hongying's side secretly restored it afterwards, it might also restore the original chimney and find that a stone was missing.

After deciding what he was going to do, Li Hao didn't take away the stone knife immediately.