Beware of Chicken 4 (Beware of Chicken, #4)

by CasualFarmer

There were tales still going around of the time when she had forced a man thirty years her senior to put a rice bowl on his head and proclaim himself a “bowl of stupid” after she’d had to rescue him from the Breakergrounds.

Wa Shi pretended he was going through the numbers as the Boss’s guests talked. He had finished them all a while ago, but there was no sense in letting people know he could work faster . . . that way just led to Pi Pa trying to hand him more work. The best thing to do was to slack off most of the time, then if somebody really needed it one could “beat expectations” by being “faster than normal.” Truly, Wa Shi was the most brilliant dragon to ever exist.

Bi De stood in his place on the front of the sleigh, his dapper red hat trailing behind him. The wind coursed over his wings as they sped through the tunnel of evergreen boughs laden with the heavy snowfall from the wintery night. Below him, Brother Chun Ke and Sister Pi Pa carried the sleigh to its destination. Chun Ke wore his magnificent deer horn, to show respect to the original qilin who had pulled the great sage San Ta’s sleigh, while Pi Pa’s red-painted nose was a beacon in the mists, a light that cut through the darkness.