It was worth mentioning that these foreign merchants... seemed to be very fond of Great Tang porcelain. Most of what they transported from Yangzhou was all kinds of ceramics.
Just as Fu Hua admired the scenery while observing the potential of the people around her, a cry for help suddenly rang out.
"Oh no! Someone's fallen into the water, and she can't swim... Someone save her!"
Generally speaking, many people in Yangzhou could swim. After all, quite a few of them made their living off the canal, but...
"Hm?"
At that moment, Fu Hua instinctively looked toward the river and indeed spotted someone who had fallen into the canal not far away. She clearly had no idea how to swim.
Because... she was a girl. Women in ancient times who could swim were not unheard of, but they were absolutely rare.
In feudal society, women's bodies could not be seen by men.
So... how could they possibly go swimming in the river?
It was not as though there were none, but they were certainly few and far between. Even in the relatively open Great Tang, a woman's body was not something men could see freely.
Even women from brothels generally could not do so, unless they were the sort from... low-class... whorehouses.
"Huh? That is..."
...The moment Fu Hua saw the drowned girl's face, she froze, her face full of disbelief.
She looked as though she had seen a ghost... no, she looked even more astonished than that.
How should she put it... cobalt-blue eyes, dark blue hair tied into twin loops behind her head, a hairstyle resembling that of goddesses from the Wei-Jin era. To put it more simply... it was the inverted figure-eight hairstyle of Luo Dian, Luo Shen, and Foodie Lord...
And then there was her