She must have been hit by the impact just now and forcibly swallowed quite a bit of river water.
With no other choice, Fu Hua pressed one hand against her chest and gently pushed a few times. The girl immediately began coughing, spitting out a great deal of water that had remained in her throat. Only then did she weakly open her beautiful eyes.
"Feeling any better?"
Fu Hua asked her softly.
However... the girl seemed not to hear Fu Hua at all. Her ears were ringing severely, an aftereffect caused by water entering her eardrums. Other than a constant buzzing, she could hear nothing.
And after being awake for only a few seconds, she weakly passed out again.
"..."
Fu Hua stared speechlessly at the girl who looked so much like Luo Dian. She had actually fainted again. It was truly helpless...
But...
"Her body is so weak. How long has it been since she last ate?"
Fu Hua briefly examined her. The reason she had passed out again was not because she had fallen into the water, but because she had not eaten for a long time or received enough nutrition from food. Yet judging by the way she was dressed, she did not look like one of those poor commoners who could not afford a meal.
The girl before her, who resembled Luo Dian, was... judging by people's appearance in this era, probably around eleven or twelve years old. In ancient times, girls could marry at thirteen, so eleven or twelve already counted as a young maiden, an age when she would soon be becoming a mother.
She wore a blue ancient-style dress. Its fabric was not the rough hemp cloth worn by common folk at the bottom of society, but something slightly better. Though her family