"Graduation party? Camping in the suburbs?" Hua Qingyao glanced at the phone screen and found that it was the monitor's call.

"This is the last time our class will get together. Everyone will go on internship next month. There will be no chance to get together again. You must be there." The monitor affirmed.

"Where?"

"Yaojia Village. Set out early in the morning. There is a natural grassland there. Set up a tent there for the night and return the next morning."

"Yeah, I got it." Hua Qingyao frowned and hung up the phone. The street lights outside the window had already turned on. After thinking about it, he called Bai Qianyu.

"Qianyu, do you know about the class party?"

"I know, basically the whole class went this time. I have an emergency and have to go back to my hometown, so I can't go." Bai Qianyu's apologetic voice came through the microphone.

"Then I won't go either." Hua Qingyao was quite puzzled. He usually studied day-to-day and had to work part-time. His relationship with his classmates was not very close. Why did the class monitor insist on letting him go?

"No, brother, didn't you break up? Although the scumbag is not worth our sadness, it's good to go to the suburbs to relax. Don't keep yourself bored in the city every day. It's so depressing." Bai Qianyu advised.

"Besides, you know, this time..."

"Okay, I'll go." Hua Qingyao interrupted him, afraid of his long speech.

The two chatted for a while, then Hua Qingyao hung up the phone and started busy.

The party day arrived in a few days, and Hua Qingyao arrived at the agreed pick-up location early in the morning.

A tourist bus stopped at the roadside, and I found that most of the classmates were indeed here, chatting and laughing in small groups.

Most of them discussed the internship unit and future work plans, some were preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, and some wanted to study abroad. Everyone talked about it enthusiastically.

"Hey, Qingyao, where are you?"

Hua Qingyao stopped drinking water, looked at several people looking at him, coughed slightly, and told the truth, "I am currently interning at the place where I work."

"Oh, I am a local from Qingyao. I have a house and a car. What are you worried about?" The voice on the side sounded a bit bitter.

"Hey, you know, I heard from the class leader that our class fee is not enough for this trip. We were supposed to share it together, but someone funded us." The man said again.

"Who is it?" Another person answered and leaned closer to ask everyone's doubts.

The man looked at Hua Qingyao, his eyes flashed, and he whispered: "That's our classmate Jin Haoxuan."

"Him?" Several people glanced at Hua Qingyao. They all knew what happened to Jin Haoxuan's mother at the school gate.

"I heard that his girlfriend is a local rich second generation." Someone said in an envious tone.

"No, he was originally going to come today. He heard that his girlfriend was not feeling well, so he went to take care of her. Gee, the relationship is really good." Another person answered.

Hua Qingyao lowered his head depressedly. After hearing that Jin Haoxuan was not coming, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He wouldn't be so sad now, but he was still a little upset when he heard the name.

Those few people noticed Hua Qingyao, who was silently chewing beside him. They looked at each other for a few times, stopped talking, and went on to talk about something else.

After a while, everyone gathered, and the bus swayed on the road.

Yaojia Village is surrounded by mountains surrounded by suburbs, with only a dirt road winding into it.

In the early days, the village was closed off. For unknown reasons, an infectious disease appeared in the village. By the time it was discovered, there was no one alive in the village. At that time, it was news that shocked the whole country. It has been more than ten years now.

In recent years, many young people have gradually been attracted to explore there. Coupled with the natural grassland next to the village, some self-driving tourists also like to go camping there.

The bus stopped at the entrance of the village, and some students who had motion sickness were already retching beside them.

Hua Qingyao looked at the rows of dilapidated houses in front of him. The half-open doors creaked from time to time due to the wind, making them look desolate and gloomy.

A female classmate rubbed her arms and said with a trembling voice, "This, it feels like a ghost movie scene. Why did the monitor come to camp here?"

The girl on the other side also half-crossed her arms, "I heard that a developer is interested in this place and plans to turn it into a tourist area. I don't know why the project has not been followed up."

"Hey, forget it, we're here now. The air is really good. It's rare that it's so cool here in summer. Let's go, they've started to set up tents."

Several people walked towards the hilly pasture next to the village. Hua Qingyao was stopped by the sound of his cell phone ringing.

"Hey, caravan, um, yes, I'm here in Yaojia Village, okay." Hua Qingyao hung up the phone and saw the car approaching the corner of the road in the distance.

After a while, the car arrived at the entrance of the village. As soon as the car door opened, a slender figure got out of the car and closed the door neatly.

Hua Qingyao stepped forward with a smile, looked at the person who turned around, blinked to make sure he was not dazzled, "Brother Ye."

"Qingyao, I'm sorry to trouble you." Ye Chutang smiled and nodded.

"It's not troublesome, work is important." Hua Qingyao shook his head, "Is Brother Ye also transferred from the police force?"

"No, I'm a non-staff member. Aren't we going to build a canteen in the institute? I'm a chef."

Hua Qingyao was stunned, thinking that the other party really loved cooking, and the caravan and the others had also applied for a canteen a while ago, but he didn't expect it to be approved so quickly.

"However, it won't start so soon. It will take a while." Ye Chutang explained with a smile.

"The caravan said you came here to check. Is there any problem?" Hua Qingyao knew the nature of the work where he was working and immediately became nervous.

"Don't be nervous, it's nothing. You just asked me to come over and record the surrounding environment." Ye Chutang comforted him.

Seeing that several tents had been set up on the hill not far away, he urged: "You are here to camp, right? You can go with them, I can do it myself."

Hua Qingyao looked at a group of classmates in high spirits, then turned to look at Ye Chutang, shaking his head, "No, work is important." The key is that he doesn't really want to be with them, and he doesn't know them that well in the first place, and there are a few classmates from time to time. Looking at him secretly and then whispering made him somewhat uncomfortable.

He took out his cell phone, sent a message to the monitor to explain the situation, and took Ye Chutang into the village.

When I walked to the nearest house, there was a thick layer of dust on the window sill. The glass on the window was gone and the edges of the frame were rotten.

Looking into the house through the window, the furniture inside is also in tatters, covered with thick dust, and the farm tools in the corners are rusty and cannot be seen as they were before.

Ye Chutang took out his camera and took a few photos. The old door creaked, causing Hua Qingyao who was watching to pause.

Then there was a whirring sound, "Wow, it's so shabby, why is there still a mud house? Is this a wooden door?"

Some students from the city have never seen houses in poor villages since they were children, and they are watching curiously.

"Qingyao, is this your friend?" A girl stared at Ye Chutang.

Hua Qingyao stepped forward subconsciously and nodded, "Well, why are you here?"

"Oh, the tent squad leader and the others will just take care of it. Let's come over here to have a look and have some adventure." Another girl said.

"It's been desolate here for so long. It's not safe. You'd better not stay." Ye Chutang said coldly.

"Hello, classmate, since it's not safe, let's go back." The girl who had been staring at Ye Chutang whispered.

"Yuyou, no one has lived here for more than ten years, so it won't collapse. Besides, we are here, what are you afraid of?" A boy pointed at several male classmates beside him and said in a arrogant tone.

Ye Chutang said coldly again: "Don't you know that an infectious disease broke out here more than ten years ago and the whole village was wiped out? For safety's sake, it's better to go to the hillside."

The boy's face suddenly darkened when he was humiliated like this. Seeing the expressions of several girls looking around and wanting to come back, he immediately said angrily: "The virus has been around for more than ten years and is long gone. What's so scary about it?"

Ye Chutang lowered his eyes. Normally, he didn't care whether these people lived or died, but with Hua Qingyao's temperament, if something happened, he would definitely help. The most important thing was that he wanted to be alone with Hua Qingyao.

Ye Chutang's eyes darkened as he watched several boys leading a group of girls towards the village.

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