The school has a guesthouse, but when Qi Yanli learned that Ling Chengyan's family was visiting with the kids, she immediately contacted her colleague to help borrow a dorm room.
Qi Yanli drove a big van over, brought a set of roast duck, and some Beijing-style snacks for the kids. She nudged Ling Chengyan, winking, "They've come all this way, you should host them well. Both sides of that dorm room are empty, so you don't have to worry about making noise being overheard."
Ling Chengyan, although trained in martial arts with her father and brothers from a young age and not restricted to the back courtyard like other young ladies, had seen many men, especially in the border military camps where soldiers were rugged fellows using coarse language she had heard plenty of, had never had such talk directed at her before.
So, when she first heard Qi Yanli's words, she was momentarily stunned.
