"The lower official retired first." Natsuba put down the teacup and said.

Out of the study, Xia Ye asked, "You talk to Yi Barbarian Jun like this, aren't you afraid that he will punish you?" ”

"I'm not afraid of his punishment, he is nothing more than grounding me, I'm not afraid." Ouyang Ling'er said willfully.

"By the way, what did the imperial princess tell you to do just now?" Xia Ye asked as he took out his whip again and waved it twice.

Ouyang Ling'er said angrily: "My imperial sister-in-law, she has to supervise me every day to practice embroidery, it's just annoying, how boring it is to sit there every day." ”

Xia Ye laughed: "The imperial concubine wants to cultivate your female celebrity." ”

"I don't want to learn any female red." After Ouyang Ling'er finished speaking, she suddenly had some ghost idea, and leaned close to Xia Ye and whispered: "When I came just now, I found that a quail lived on a tree in Nanyuan, should we go and dig out quail eggs?" ”

"Picking quail eggs?" Xia Ye wrinkled his little face: "It's a pity that I can't climb trees?" ”

"You're a big man who can't climb trees?" Ouyang Ling'er was disgusted and said, "Then I'll dig it out, and you can continue below." ”

"Okay." Xia Ye put away his whip and followed Ouyang Ling'er to Nanyuan.

Sure enough, there was a crooked-necked tree in the South Garden, and the tree was higher than the roof of the South Garden, not very high, and a quail's nest was newly built on it.

Entering Nanyuan, Ouyang Ling'er rolled up her sleeves and began to climb the tree.

Xia Ye said worriedly: "Princess, be careful. ”

"It's fine." Ouyang Ling'er climbed the crooked neck tree with flexible hands and feet for a while, but when she looked at the quail's nest, her little face wrinkled.

"What's wrong? Is there none? Xia Ye looked at Ouyang Ling'er's expression and asked.

"No, there are four." Ouyang Ling'er looked at the bird's nest and said.

"Then why are you still wrinkled?".

"Because they're all out of their shells, it's so cute." Ouyang Ling'er suddenly looked at the bird's nest with a big heart.

I'll go! Xia Ye held his forehead speechlessly: "Then you hurry down, it's too scary to sit on it." ”

She thought something was wrong, but it turned out that she couldn't bear to see the little quail.

Ouyang Ling'er glanced at the little quail a few more times before coming down from the tree.

Xia Ye carefully stretched out her arms beside her, for fear that she would fall.

Seeing Xia Ye so nervous about herself, Ouyang Ling'er pursed her lips and suddenly said coquettishly: "But people want to eat quail eggs." ”

As a princess, let alone quail eggs, you just want to eat anything, Xia Ye thought for a while and asked, "Is there a royal dining room in the palace?" ”

"There should be." Ouyang Ling'er nodded.

"Then let's go to the Imperial Dining Room and get it." Natsuba suggested that it seemed much safer than climbing a tree like this.

But who knows, as soon as Xia Ye finished speaking, Ouyang Ling'er hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, my brother said that I am not allowed to go to the imperial dining room to steal things, otherwise he will marry me far away." ”

"So serious?" Xia Ye frowned and said, "Yi Manjun only said that he wouldn't let you go, but he didn't say that he wouldn't let me go, I would steal it for you." ”

Ouyang Ling'er suddenly looked at Xia Ye with a happy face: "Really? ”

Looking at Ouyang Ling'er's small eyes, Xia Ye couldn't bear it, so he nodded: "Of course it's true!" ”

"Let's go!"

Seeing that Xia Ye was serious, Ouyang Ling'er led the way directly without saying a word.

When she arrived at the imperial dining room, Xia Ye began to get up again, if she was beaten for stealing, it would be embarrassing to think about it, not to mention that she was still the marquis of Tubo.

But looking back at Ouyang Ling'er's little eyes, Xia Ye couldn't bear it anymore, after all, she promised to steal quail eggs for her to eat just now.

"Don't worry, you can go directly to the back kitchen from here, it's safe." Ouyang Ling'er pointed to a small doorway.

Liar, since she is very safe, how could she be caught?

Forget it, this is the time of life and death, Xia Ye handed the whip in his hand to Ouyang Ling'er for temporary safekeeping, and then slipped in along the small door.

Seeing Xia Ye enter, Ouyang Ling'er quietly hid in a small forest and waited.

After entering the small door, I walked a few steps, and after a corner Xia Ye smelled the smell of food, and in front of me, a table was full of various pastries.

Taking advantage of the fact that there would be no one here, Xia Ye quickly slipped under the table, and just wanted to reach for a pastry when he found someone coming in.

Because Xia Ye was squatting under the table, just looking at the person's calf, Xia Ye felt that she couldn't beat it, because that person's calf was simply thicker than her thigh.

It seems to be a man, Natsuha guessed.

After a while, another person came in, and that person came in and walked directly towards Natsuba, and then seemed to put something on the table.

Looking at this person's calf, Xia Ye felt that he could beat it if he was single-handed.

"This is the marinated quail that the imperial concubine wants, it will be peeled off later, don't delay." The skinny one said to the fat one.

Natsuba listened below, and the fat one seemed to be washing something, because there was the sound of water.

"Got it." Fat replied.

It's actually a woman, Xia Ye was a little surprised that he guessed wrong, the two who came just now were actually women.

But I seem to have heard the thin one say just now, she just put a marinated quail?

Xia Ye continued to lurk, wanting to wait for the fat one to go, but the fat one kept standing there and didn't know what he was doing, Xia Ye was afraid that before she could take it, the marinated quail on the table was taken away, so he slowly stretched out his hand to the table with courage.

When it was almost there, the fat one didn't know whether to change the water or what to do, and Xia Ye, who was frightened by the sound of pouring water, directly retracted his hand.

It was so scared of the baby that Xia Ye felt a sudden chill behind her back, and a layer of cold sweat broke out, but when she thought of Ouyang Ling'er who was still waiting outside, she had to start trying again a second time.

This time, Xia Ye was more familiar with the road, but because it was uncomfortable to hold it like this, Xia Ye took two in his hand for the second time.

When I was thinking about taking it for the third time, the thick legs suddenly came to the table, and after a while, he muttered, "Why are there two less quails?" Then he turned and went out.

Taking advantage of this gap, Xia Ye hurriedly crawled out from under the table, then grabbed a handful of marinated quails on the plate with both hands, and quickly slipped out.

The fat man, who had just gone out to fetch two quails, saw the half-empty plate and cried out, "There is a thief!" ”

At this time, Xia Ye hadn't completely escaped, and after escaping, he was directly taken into the grove next to him by Ouyang Ling'er.

"Spotted, run!" Xia Ye grabbed the marinated quail with both hands and said.

"It's okay, it's safe here." Ouyang Ling'er said with a veteran's expression.

It was horrible, she would have been caught if she had run a few seconds late.

Ouyang Ling'er took a large green leaf and spread it on the ground, and then asked Xia Ye to put the marinated quail in his hand on it, looking at the fresh marinated quail Ouyang Ling'er salivated and said, "It's hard work." ”

Xia Ye calmed down, and then sat in the grove with Ouyang Ling'er: "It's really not easy to steal things. ”

"But I'll be happy when I steal it." Ouyang Ling'er chuckled.

"Well, that's true." Looking at a large handful of marinated quails, Xia Ye picked one up, then peeled it off and handed it to Ouyang Ling'er: "Eat, the quail you want to eat." ”

"You peel it for me?" Ouyang Ling'er bit her lip and said.

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