The moment Lin Qingping heard, she plucked the telegram from Liu Fen’s hand. The message was brief: her request to visit the military base had been approved. She was to report in two weeks. A letter had arrived around the same time as the telegram, addressed to Liu Fen and Gu Dafu. Neither Liu Fen nor Gu Dafu could read well, so they needed Lin Qingping to read it for them. Suspecting it contained