Lin Ziyan picked up the remote control and watched the boat floating on the pool with equal excitement.

She pressed the switch, and the boat slowly glided along.

Lin Ziyan maneuvered the boat forward, and at the bend, she pressed a button once, and the boat made a smooth turn.

"The boat has started! It has started!" Jiaojiao jumped up excitedly and shouted in a soft, sweet voice.

The second sister, Xiaoxiao, was equally excited, her eyes following the boat intently, and she nervously clenched her little hands as the boat turned.

After the boat circled around in the pool a few times, Lin Ziyan handed the remote control to her second sister.

"You play by yourself, I'm going inside to draw." Lin Ziyan said this and turned to leave.

Xiaoxiao, the second sister, held the remote control, her hand trembling slightly.

But she watched her sister operate the machine very carefully, and she knew all the steps.

"Let's go! Let's go..." Jiaojiao jumped excitedly beside her.

The glow of the sunset reflected on their faces, making their smiles even brighter.

The two had a great time and kept looking at the pool.

"Xiaoxiao, are you playing in the water?" Atai walked into the courtyard carrying sweet potato leaves tied with straw.

Grandma Lan followed behind her, holding a palm-leaf fan.

"Grandma... Haha, so much fun... boat..." Jiao Jiao laughed until her eyes curved into crescent shapes.

Lin Atai thought they were folding paper boats and didn't take it seriously. But Jiaojiao pulled her along.

Grandma Lan had always liked soft and cuddly little girls, and she strolled along slowly, fanning herself with a palm leaf fan.

"Grandma, the cargo ship that my sister assembled can be launched."

“We helped install it too,” said Xiaoxiao, the second sister, excitedly, as she operated the remote control.

Lin Atai looked at the pool full of water, and then at the miniature cargo ship, her expression slightly serious.

Grandma Lan leaned over for a look and was instantly stunned.

She saw a miniature cargo ship?

From all angles, including the drainage, it's a complete simulation.

She herself designed warships, so she was no stranger to ship structures.

She recognized it at a glance.

"Did you assemble this?" Grandma Lan's throat was dry, and her eyes were slightly red.

Her colleagues are now working day and night to design a cargo ship that meets modern standards.

Some engineers in their thirties, whose hair has turned white from working so hard, still haven't been able to design cargo ships that meet the standards.

Now she's actually seeing a realistic cargo ship in a small fishing village, and it can even go into the water and be remotely controlled.

“Yes. My older sister looked at the instructions for the boat and drew a diagram,” Xiaoxiao, the second sister, blurted out.

Lin Atai's eyelids twitched; she knew that Grandma Lan was no ordinary person.

"My older sister said these are toys from overseas, called... Lego," Xiaoxiao, the second sister, added.

Lin Atai breathed a slight sigh of relief. Fortunately, it wasn't Ah Yan's doing; otherwise, she might have been mistaken for an external infiltrator and taken away for investigation.

Although things are better now than before, there are still many external forces lurking here.

Those in higher positions frequently conduct undercover investigations, and if anything seems amiss, they are taken away for questioning.

"There's a picture?" Grandma Lan was even more excited.

Lin Atai sighed inwardly and coughed twice. "Grandma Lan, let's go. I'll take you to find Ayan."

She placed the sweet potato leaves on the stone table, then walked with her hands behind her back towards the house next door.

The Lin family's house is the most primitive fishing village building.

The walls are made of stacked, flat stones, and the windows are painted green, though the paint has faded slightly where it has been exposed to rain.

Grandma Lan looked through the window and saw Lin Ziyan drawing intently.

The glow of the sunset illuminated her beautiful, fair face. Her hair was tied up high, with a few strands of dark hair falling down and tucked behind her ears. Her slender neck was slightly bent, revealing the beautiful lines of her neck.

She pursed her red lips, her expression serious and earnest.

"Ah Yan," Lin Atai called out, stepping over the stairs and into the house.

Grandma Lan hurried to catch up, thinking to herself, how come she never noticed how beautiful and elegant Ayan was before?

"Grandma." Lin Ziyan looked at Grandma Lan, who had followed her in, with surprise.

"Grandma Lan wants to see the cargo ship blueprints you drew." Grandma Lin's gaze fell on the table, where there was a stack of finished drawings.

Her cloudy eyes flickered, and she subtly looked away.

Lin Ziyan picked up a drawing she had just finished and handed it to Grandma Lan, saying, "Take a look, I just drew it randomly."

In fact, before her rebirth, she had already completed her ship design credits and had her graduation project submitted for a competition. Before the results were announced, she was reborn here.

Her drawings were professional-grade; even the parameters were labeled.

Grandma Lan had sharp eyes; she was shocked after just one glance.

"Ayan, you studied ship design?" Grandma Lan looked at her with a complicated expression.

"I attended a few classes. Before taking a break from school, I originally came back to apply to switch to studying naval architecture." Lin Ziyan recounted the original owner's story, which wasn't exactly a lie.

The original owner's sudden return to the village was indeed to exchange his studies in ship design.

These things can be easily found by checking with the school, so she's not afraid.

These are sensitive times, so she has to be careful.

"Can I take these pictures home to look at?" Grandma Lan was shocked, but she didn't show it on her face.

She's not one to take things at face value; having worked in secrecy for a long time, she has to be cautious.

“Okay.” Lin Ziyan didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. After all, she didn’t make the cargo ship model, and her drawings were based on the model.

She grabbed a black plastic bag, stuffed all the blueprints into it, and handed it to Grandma Lan.

Grandma Lan's lips twitched.

These precious blueprints were just casually stuffed into a garbage bag?

Only after Grandma Lan left did Grandma Lin sigh.

"Ayan, you need to learn to protect yourself."

After she finished speaking, she turned and walked out.

Lin Ziyan pursed her lips, making up her mind that next time she went to the city, she would definitely buy a few books on ship design to show off...

…

Upon returning home in a hurry, Grandma Lan went straight into her study.

It's already dinnertime, but she's completely forgotten.

When Old Man He returned from outside, he saw the light on in the study and walked over suspiciously.

"Old woman, what are you looking at?" he asked, standing at the door.

"Stop arguing!" Grandma Lan retorted impatiently without even looking up.

Old Man He twitched the corner of his mouth, put his palm-leaf fan down, and thought to himself, "Is he angry again?"

He turned and went into the kitchen to start steaming rice and cooking dinner.

After working for an hour, he came out covered in sweat and stood at the door, calling out, "Old woman, come out for dinner."

He called out several times, but no one answered.

Old He wiped his sweat and stormed into the study, about to yell at someone, but when he saw the person in the study with tears streaming down their face, his anger instantly vanished.

"Qingyue, what's wrong?" He hurried over.

Grandma Lan wiped away her tears, then smiled again.

"Old man, the cargo ship design plans..."

Old Man He patted her on the back, picked up the blueprints on the table, and became increasingly alarmed.

These drawings are all labeled with parameters and are in a very standard design drawing format.

"Where did you get it?"

Old Man He became wary; things had been rather unsettled at the port lately, and he couldn't help but overthink it.