District 9

Fu Xiaohao picked up the walkie-talkie and asked softly: "The car behind you, please answer if you hear me."

"Copy that, please speak."

"Have you separated from the military vehicle?" Fu Xiaohao asked bluntly.

"They separated. They took a fork in the road. We will catch up with you soon."

"Okay, then drive quickly." After Fu Xiaohao nodded with satisfaction, he turned to look at Qin Yu and said, "We are separated. The military vehicles are taking another road."

"That's okay." Qin Yu breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and unscrewed the water bottle and said, "Hurry up and let's have a good sleep when we get there."

…

The hotel where Qin Yu and others were going to stay was booked by Cha Meng himself before arriving, so after the three cars entered Fengbei, they drove with clear purpose and arrived at the hotel parking lot in less than half an hour.

This hotel is not very big, with only four floors, but the interior decoration is not bad, and the residence permit is not strictly checked, which is very convenient for Coco and others to check in.

Chameng went to the front desk to get n room cards. After returning, everyone returned to their rooms.

Ten minutes later.

In guest room 409, Qin Yu took off his coat and hung it on the wall, sat down on the bed, yawned and asked, "Xiao Hao, are you hungry?"

"I'm not hungry." Fu Xiaohao shook his head.

"Then go to bed and eat together tomorrow morning." Qin Yu lowered his head and pulled off the two smelly shoes, preparing to take a shower and go to bed.

"Brother, if you don't want to go to bed first, I... will go home and take a look." Fu Xiaohao scratched his head and replied with a smile.

Qin Yu was stunned: "Go back now?"

"Well, if I drive, I can get home in about three hours." Fu Xiaohao took out his cigarette case and said, "I'll stay at home tonight and come back at noon tomorrow."

"Pull it away. Isn't your home in a living village quite far away?" Qin Yu frowned and persuaded: "It's a damn two or three hours away, and it's so late. What do you have to worry about? The car costs ten thousand. Aren’t you dumbfounded at the end of the road?”

"Haha, I haven't been back for a long time." Fu Xiaohao lowered his head in embarrassment and said, "It's been almost a year."

"You didn't go back when it was about to be assigned?" Qin Yu asked, stunned for a moment.

"No, I'm the only one who came to the academy to see me." Fu Xiaohao said with a smile: "The old man was afraid that I would go back and spend money."

Qin Yu took off his sweater and persuaded in a low voice: "No matter how urgent it is, we don't miss one night. Let's go tomorrow. I will go back with you tomorrow."

After Fu Xiaohao heard the sound, his expression was shocked: "Are you going back with me?"

"What's wrong, I can't go to your house to have a look?" Qin Yu asked sideways.

"No...it's not that I can't...!" Fu Xiaohao scratched his head again and hesitated in his words: "In my home, I..."

Qin Yu glanced at Fu Xiaohao, curled his lips and said, "Before I entered Songjiang, I didn't even have a home. Why aren't you better than me? We're all the same people. Who is laughing at who?"

Fu Xiaohao didn't reply when he heard this.

"That's it. I'll go back with you tomorrow and let them go shopping by themselves." Qin Yu said while lying on the bed, "We'll just go there for one day anyway. Cha Meng will take care of us here, so there won't be any problem."

"Okay." Fu Xiaohao nodded.

"Clean up and go to sleep."

Qin Yu had been very tired recently, and he felt sleepy when he saw the bed, so he took off his clothes randomly and walked to the bathroom: "I'll take a shower first, you can take off your clothes."

…

The next day, it was around nine in the morning.

Cha Meng knocked on the door outside and shouted, "Xiao Yu, are you awake?"

Qin Yu opened his eyes drowsily, frowned and glanced at the time on his phone, and then replied loudly: "I told you to wake up."

"Haha, come on, come out to eat."

"Got it." Qin Yu replied, then turned to look at the bed next to him, but did not see Fu Xiaohao.

After Qin Yu lay on the bed for three to five minutes, he suddenly sat up, yawned and put on his clothes.

After washing up, Qin Yu went to the hotel restaurant and saw Coco. Yu Jinxun and others had already sat down and started eating.

"Where's Xiaohao?" Cha Meng asked.

"He is going home today, maybe to buy something." Qin Yu picked up an egg and said softly to everyone: "I will go back with him in a while. You let Mengzi and the others go shopping with you today, and I will accompany you tomorrow."

"Okay, as long as there is someone to drive and carry the bag." Coco nodded readily.

Qin Yu peeled the eggs and gave a special reminder: "After shopping, if you want to eat, it's nearby. Don't wander around. Mengzi and the others are small. If something happens, they may not be able to take care of them."

"What can you do here?" a girl next to her asked, stroking her hair. She is Youyou's cousin, and she also came here to buy some items for the wedding.

"Let Coco explain it to you later." Qin Yu didn't bother to introduce these trivial matters, so he just lowered his head and drank the porridge.

…

After breakfast, Qin Yu just returned to the room when he saw Fu Xiaohao beside the cabinet, sorting out four large bags of things.

Qin Yu lowered his head and glanced at Fu Xiaohao's bag, and asked with a very strange expression: "Why are you buying vegetables and rice? Do you still need to bring these things with you?"

"...I don't have anything to entertain you at home, so I'll buy some in advance." Fu Xiaohao grinned.

Qin Yu was stunned for a moment and said nothing more.

Fu Xiaohao had less than ten minutes to clean up before he asked Qin Yu with an excited expression: "Brother, shall we go?"

"Let's go!"

Qin Yu nodded and stood up.

…

Fu Xiaohao's home is located in a living village about 170 kilometers west of Fengbei. It is in a remote location, less than ten kilometers away from the area to be planned, and is surrounded by mountains and water. The situation is similar to that of Taizhuang Lake in Changji.

Before Qin Yu came here, he had already expected that Fu Xiaohao's hometown might be very poor. But when he actually arrived here, he discovered that the conditions here were far more backward than he imagined. The entire environment really seemed to have gone back a hundred years.

There are no electric lights, no heating, no flat roads, just ordinary houses with very wide spacing between them. Some were built by the Relief Department back then, while others were built by ourselves using mud and bluestone.

The car was driving on the slippery ice and snow road. Qin Yu turned to look out the window at the vast white and endless wasteland. He couldn't help but ask: "There are no factories or any institutions here. How about the people?" What do you live on?"

"Just rely on two hands." Fu Xiaohao responded softly.

"Didn't Fengbei City allocate funds for this place?" Qin Yu asked.

"The city must have allocated funds," Fu Xiaohao said with a sneer: "But where the money was used, I don't know... except for the Relief Administration coming here to build houses, our people here have not received any benefits. . Haha, maybe the leaders drink and have meetings every day and have forgotten that there is such a place in Fengbei."

Qin Yu was speechless.

The car continued to drive forward, and after driving for nearly an hour, it finally arrived at Fu Xiaohao's hometown, Xinnan Life Village.

…

Inside the mall.

Cha Meng sat on the rest chair, turned around and glanced in the direction of the elevator, frowning slightly.

"What's wrong?" asked the driver sent by Ma Laoer.

"It feels like someone is always looking at me..." Cha Meng replied with a frown.