It was getting late, and Tan Wan also looked at the time. It was already past nine o'clock.
Time passed so quickly, and before I knew it, I had been talking to Wang Mei for three hours at the orphanage.
During this period, Wang Mei took her to almost every corner of the orphanage.
Wang Mei sent the person away, her steps slowed down a little, and Tan Wan was able to walk side by side with her.
"Does Teacher Wang live in the front yard?" Tan Wan asked, "I heard from Dean Gao before that all the employees live in the front yard."
"Yeah." Wang Mei responded without answering.
"How long does Teacher Wang plan to stay in the orphanage?" Tan Wan asked again.
Wang Mei always lowered her head and replied: "Let's finish the work and I'm leaving soon."
Just as he was about to reach the door, Tan Wan suddenly reached out and touched his pocket: "Oh!"
Tan Wan shouted, and Wang Mei immediately turned back to look at her, quietly watching what happened to her.
"Sorry, Teacher Wang, I dropped the car key hanging on my bag!" Tan Wan looked panicked and rummaged around in the bag, but couldn't find it.
After searching unsuccessfully and confirming that the car keys were not with him, Tan Wan said directly: "It should have been dropped in the front yard."
Wang Mei walked back and said as she walked, "I'll go look for it with you."
"No, I'll go by myself." Tan Wan stopped Wang Mei and said, "Teacher Wang, go and do your business."
The car keys she had been talking to for the evening were now lying safely at the bottom of her bag, pressed down by the documents and notebooks.
Of course Tan Wan knew, but she was eyeing Wang Mei and wanted to sneak into Wang Mei's room to take a look.
Based on her understanding of Wang Mei's temperament, apart from treating children, her needs and responses to adults are not very enthusiastic.
Therefore, when Tan Wan asked to go back and look for her by herself, she probably expected Wang Mei to let her go by herself.
Wang Mei's move immediately felt very abnormal and contrived.
The two of them had been pushing and pulling for two rounds. After all, they were in other people's territory. It would be weird if they were too tough. In this case, Tan Wan had no choice but to agree.
Wang Mei walked very fast along the way, even faster than before when she took Tan Wan to visit the orphanage.
Tan Wan walked quickly behind her, taking out her cell phone while walking, and quickly sent a location to Li Dongliao and asked him to bring someone here.
She was walking a little fast, and the screen of her phone was flickering. She didn't realize at all that she had sent the wrong contact when forwarding the location.
After sending the location, I suddenly heard Wang Mei ask: "Where did you probably drop your car key?"
Tan Wan quickly put away her phone: "I don't know. It could have been anywhere I walked just now. It should have been dropped somewhere in the corridor."
Wang Mei didn't say anything, and the two of them walked back, paying attention to whether there was anything left on the ground.
The two of them were walking from the gate of the orphanage towards the front yard building. As soon as they walked into the room, they heard the ticking sound of water leakage in their ears.
The "tick-tock, tick-tock" sound is very frequent, and it sounds like there is a water leak somewhere.
"Is there a water leak somewhere?" Tan Wan stopped and listened carefully to the sound of water.
"I didn't hear it." Wang Mei said bluntly, "Hurry up and talk to the police officer. There are rules in the courtyard and no one will be left at night."
This rule was something Tan Wan told herself when she first met Wang Mei.
Although Tan Wan didn't know what the rule was, he was frightened by her serious expression: "Oh, I understand."
The two of them searched for a while on the first floor, but couldn't find anything, so they headed back to the second floor.
As far as Tan Wan knew, the third floor was the director's office, and the second floor was where the orphanage employees lived.
One of them must be Wang Mei's room.
Just when Wang Mei was about to start searching the second floor, Tan Wan grabbed her.
Tan Wan said: "Teacher Wang, you go find the third floor and leave it to me here. We can search faster if we separate."
Wang Mei didn't think much, nodded in agreement, and walked straight up the stairs to the third floor.
After watching Wang Mei go to the third floor, Tan Wan focused on the doors on the second floor and started running quickly.
The next second Tan Wan ran away, Wang Mei's head quickly popped out from the stairs on the third floor. Her eyes with thick lenses were like two searchlights, staring at what was going on downstairs.
There is a small window above the staff room, and Tan Wan can barely see inside when he jumps up.
Since all the employees were persuaded to leave, everything in the room was tidied up.
Tan Wan was jumping around like a monkey all the way, and while she was watching, she had to keep an eye on the movement on the other side of the stairs, just in case Wang Mei saw something strange about herself when she came down.
After jumping around three or four times in a row, Tan Wan finally found Wang Mei's room in the fifth room.
The things in that room were still messy and no one had tidied them up. It was the only staff room that had not been tidied up.
Tan Wan hurriedly pressed the door handle twice in a row and found that the door was locked.
This time she heard the dripping sound of water leaking again.
The sound was clearer than on the first floor and had an echo.
Tan Wan looked in the direction of the sound and found that the sound of water dripping came from the wall.
Why is there the sound of water dripping in the wall...
She put one ear against the wall and listened for a while, confirming that the sound was coming from the wall.
The water leakage was no longer important. The villain in Tan Wan's head slapped himself.
At this time, you are still wondering whether the orphanage is leaking!
Tan Wan looked away and turned his head, only to see Wang Mei standing at the stairs of the corridor looking at him.
Wang Mei stood upright, looking at herself motionless in the darkness. She didn't know when she came downstairs, as quietly as a ghost.
Tan Wan was startled, held the car keys in his hand, and squatted in the corner.
Pretending to pick up something: "I found the car key!!"
Tan Wan shook the car key in her hand and walked towards Wang Mei.
Before leaving, she took a look at the location of Wang Mei's room, which was the penultimate room at the end of the corridor.
On the way to send Tanwan out, Wang Mei had a bad expression and kept checking the time on her phone.
"Why are you looking at the time just now?" Tan Wan asked, "What do you want to do later?"
Wang Mei didn't speak. She kept her mouth shut all the way and led Tan Wan out of the house in silence.
After escorting the person all the way to the gate, Wang Mei said "goodbye" when Tan Wan completely stepped out of the iron gate.
The next second, the big iron door closed with a bang.
The sound of the iron door closing was deafening, causing Tan Wan's ears to hurt.
Tanwan rolled his eyes and took a detour to the back mountain.
