The reason why the pickled vegetable wanted to take the dog as his teacher was that the dog had a very sensitive sense of smell, more sensitive than a pregnant woman's nose. Animals that other animals couldn't smell, dogs could smell. It could perceive unusual things without looking or touching. Even if the thing just passed by here, he could smell it. This was especially useful at night. Because of this superpower, humans and dogs became the best friends. All the animals knew that humans were smart because they could use the special skills of other animals to serve themselves. Elephants had good temper, so they let elephants carry heavy things. Cows were honest and obedient, so they used cows to plow fields and pull plows to do heavy work. Horses were good at running, so they rode them to travel. Donkeys didn't get dizzy when turning in circles, so they used them to grind. Chickens were easy to get pregnant, so they let them keep getting pregnant and lay eggs. Pigs had no special skills, lazy and gluttonous, affecting the enthusiasm of other animals to serve people, so they killed pigs to eat for relief. Other animals, rich people, like wolves, tigers, foxes, etc., each had their own specialties. For example, divination A: Are you a man? B: Your eyesight is really good, very correct. A: Your age is between twenty and fifty. B: Quite accurate. A: You are Chinese, right? But because humans can't control them, they stay away from them and ignore them.
Humans and dogs became friends, using the dog's strengths while constantly saying bad things about dogs. Whenever there was talk involving dogs, there wasn't a good word, such as "dog-like behavior", "dog stuff", "lapdog", "dog plaster", "dogs can't help eating shit", "puppy", "nonsense", "adding a dog tail to a weasel", "a dog climbing over a wall", "spraying blood all over the place", "a dog trying to catch mice", "a dog relying on its owner's power" and so on, too many to count. Many animals couldn't figure out whether humans and dogs were good friends or enemies.
The pickled vegetable wanted to learn the sense of smell from the dog, but the dog didn't want to take him as a disciple. The pickled vegetable wouldn't leave, standing in front of the doghouse for three days and three nights, regardless of wind or rain. As a result, he stood a pit in front of the doghouse. Once it snowed, almost freezing the pickled vegetable to death. The dog was deeply moved and said to the pickled vegetable: "Pickled vegetable, it's not that I don't want to teach you, but I'm afraid you can't bear the hardship. Do you know how our dog's sense of smell is trained? We eat shit, especially children's diarrhea. Can you stand it?" The pickled vegetable felt nauseated after hearing it and was about to say he couldn't stand it. But thinking of roses, what came out of his mouth was: "I can."
Although he said that, the dog also took him as a disciple. But when it really came to eating shit, the pickled vegetable saw the shit and vomited, unable to eat it. He asked the dog: "Why do I have to eat shit? Can't I eat something else?" The dog said: "Only when eating shit does the nose become stimulated, making the sense of smell more developed. Even if you don't eat shit, you still need to eat stinky things like shit. But other stinky things are hard to find. Shit is the most economical and practical, so it's still better to eat shit." After hearing this, the pickled vegetable wanted to back out. The dog, moved by the pickled vegetable's sincerity in seeking a teacher, taught him: "When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a person, it must first frustrate his will and tire his muscles... What you need to change is not the shit, but your attitude towards eating shit. Don't think of shit as shit. When you eat it, imagine it as meat, then the taste will be different. For example, people, whether tiger meat or rat meat, it's all meat, all fragrant. They distinguish and imagine, so the feeling when eating is very different. If you want to be a superhero, you must first transcend ordinary people in thought, and then you can become a superhero in action." The pickled vegetable tried according to the dog's method, and the taste was indeed different. After eating for a period of time, he went from rejection to acceptance, and then from acceptance to liking, until he was like the dog, rushing to eat when he saw shit. After eating for a period of time, he could smell strange odors from far away, just like the dog. Only his nose was like the dog's nose, often wet and sticky, which troubled him a bit. He had learned the dog's skills, but his nose was always like this. Would the rose dislike it when she saw it? The pickled vegetable was quite troubled thinking about the rose's reaction.