Chapter 123: A Summer Journal of Country Life
Hu Caiyi's refusal to eat rabbit had nothing to do with being a picky eater.
The main reason was that her family ran a rabbit farm. Rabbit meat was not only abundantly available but severely in surplus. Rabbit braised with potato, meal after meal, year after year, and you would find yourself unable to even look at the stuff.
She wasn't especially fond of chicken either, in truth. The main thing was that she had kept a crow when she was young and been pecked by it, leaving her with a certain fixation regarding all birds ever since.
What she truly enjoyed was sinking her teeth into a chicken's neck and snapping it clean through.
She hid it well, but Li Qiuchen had noticed this amusing little detail.
He packed the necessities, hired a puttering carriage, loaded the two young misses aboard, and set out on the journey back to his old home.
A puttering carriage was the kind that ran on coal instead of feed, and when it finished its coal it chugged out smoke from the sides. Li Qiuchen had never managed to work out exactly how it functioned.
On the outside it looked genuinely like a horse. It was a living creature that breathed.
But the interior seemed to have undergone some kind of modification, leaving it in a state that was half biological and half mechanical.