The window was one and a half feet above the ground and was separated by a wooden board. The window was not big, but it was fenced with several pieces of wood. Tian Xiaolan couldn't even reach it with her hands and looked at two boys who were taller than her.
"Brother, squat down. I'll go up and take a look inside."
"Master, let me do it! If I am discovered, don't worry about me, just run away." Wei Wenjie prepared for the worst, he had nothing to be afraid of.
"Call me Sister Xiaolan, I'll be gentler. You can go up after you see there's no one around." Li Weimin supported the plan proposed by Tian Xiaolan, and he took the initiative to walk over to Tian Xiaolan and squatted down.
Tian Xiaolan stepped on his shoulders, and Li Weimin held her knees and pushed herself up little by little.
Tian Xiaolan was on his shoulders, holding onto the wall with her hands, and Wei Wenjie was behind them. If Sister Xiaolan lost her balance and fell, he could catch her.
She was getting taller little by little, and her field of vision became wider. Li Weimin could only see his hair when he stood below him. He leaned forward near the window and found that it was dark inside. There were some sparse figures running around in the night, and there seemed to be two dark shadows leaning against the wall, motionless.
Tian Xiaolan was not sure who that person was, so she tapped her foot down twice. Li Weimin felt it and slowly put him down.
Li Weimin asked, "Did you see them?"
"I saw it. There were two people, but I'm not sure if it was them." Tian Xiaolan calmly recounted what she had just seen.
Wei Wenjie looked at Li Weimin and said, "I'll go take a look."
"Don't go in yet. I've checked that window, and it's quite hard to open. We don't have the right tools, so it's hard to open. Plus, there are two people inside. If they're guarding us, we'll be caught the moment we go in." Tian Xiaolan stopped him, "Let's go through the main door, open it, and sneak in quietly."
Wei Wenjie's heart trembled and he looked at Tian Xiaolan.
"Do you have any comments? Did you bring the wire?"
"No problem, I'll take it. Can you open the door?" Wei Wenjie handed the thing to her. She told him to find a harder wire in the afternoon, and he found it after searching a few times when he got home.
Li Weimin felt a drum beating in his heart, but it was not convenient to ask him.
Just as Tian Xiaolan was about to pry the door open, a shadow suddenly appeared beside her, as if a person had crawled out from the wall, and grabbed her wrist.
Tian Xiaolan instinctively wanted to break free, but when she saw who was holding her, she stopped moving. It was Xing Yifei who had helped her before.
"Don't you recognize me?" Xing Yifei smiled and let go.
Tian Xiaolan swallowed her breath, not knowing what to say, "What are you doing here?"
Tian Xiaolan suddenly broke out in sweat, and said fiercely in her heart: "It's too late to hide from him, and he still comes to her for no reason!"
Xing Yifei showed an evil smile, and before they broke open the door, he used a bamboo pole to support himself and jumped into the window, landing steadily without making any sound.
Tian Xiaolan took the wire from Wei Wenjie's hand, bent the wire in the middle, inserted it into the keyhole, and shook it left and right twice. The door made a slight "click" sound and opened a crack.
"I didn't expect that you, Master, could do this!" Wei Wenjie looked at Tian Xiaolan with admiration.
"No big deal." Actually, it was because she never brought her key to the dormitory before, and would be scolded if she asked the dormitory manager for it, so she learned to use hairpins and wire to open the door, but she could only do some simple ones. It happened that this door was very similar to the old door of their school, so she decided to give it a try.
The two of them went in and saw Xing Yifei standing at the door. Tian Xiaolan stepped in and said, "Excuse me, please don't block the way."
Li Weimin stood at the door in a daze, keeping watch for her.
Before Wei Wenjie could come to his senses, he pulled him inside and pointed at the room: "Everyone look at one room."
"What are you doing here? You must be looking for something like us, right?" Tian Xiaolan watched him emerge from the room and calmly suggested, "How about we work together? It's definitely going to be much easier if you look for it together than on your own!"
Xing Yifei was still smiling, but his tone was no longer leisurely: "Let me just tell you, I came here to find a book that was taken away from my father. If you find it, you can give it to me, and I will agree to one of your requests."
"What book? I'm afraid one won't be enough." Tian Xiaolan saw that although his expression was very relaxed, the fact that he came in the dead of night showed the importance of this thing.
"It's a book wrapped in yellow cover with some bloodstains on the cover. If you can find it, two will do." Xing Yifei took the initiative to give in and did not bargain with her.
They were still at the door. The house was very quiet, as if no one was there. But Tian Xiaolan remembered Zhou Dayong's words at the door that his mother was at home. "I'll give it to you when I find it. Don't make too much noise. There's someone in the house. If we get discovered, it will be very difficult."
"I'll do as you say." Wei Wenjie agreed in a low voice.
Tian Xiaolan looked at the room he came out of and said calmly, "Don't forget what you said. By the way, did you see clearly who the two people in the room you just jumped into were?" She was not sure if the people inside were the ones she was looking for. If he told them, they could avoid some detours.
He said this slowly, "I didn't see it clearly."
Since I couldn't get any information from him about what was going on inside, I had to explore it myself. "I'll go to that room first, and you go look somewhere else."
"Sister Xiaolan, are you alone?"
"I can, go now."
Tian Xiaolan walked over quickly alone. The door was not closed tightly when Xing Yifei came out. She pushed the door while tightening the belt in her hand, as if she could draw strength from the belt.
She was still hanging around outside late at night, and no one would know if something happened, let alone find someone.
Tian Xiaolan first pushed the door open a little bit and found that the two people inside seemed to be lying on the ground motionless. She was frightened and thought that a murder had occurred.
Tian Xiaolan walked closer and struck a match, only then could she see his face clearly. It was actually Shi Shichang. Her hard work paid off, and she finally found him.
"Wake up!"
"Why are you here?" Shi Shichang opened his eyes and looked at her. He noticed her from the light just now, but she was too far away, making it inconvenient for him to do anything.
Just now, he and Xiang Ming felt someone at the window, so they pretended to be asleep. The person ignored them, so they escaped danger.
Tian Xiaolan put the things in his hands and said, "Director Shi, these are the clothes your wife asked me to bring you. There are also some food inside. Please eat them quickly."
"Since you are here, please rescue us quickly. I can't stay here for a moment!"
"Old Xiang, it's so late now. Let's eat first and make plans before going out." Shi Shichang held down Xiang Ming's restless hands. Now that they had something to ask of her, they had to be nicer.
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