Tong Guan Mansion.

In the yard where Tong Guan lived, Tong Guan was not sleeping yet, and was practicing stick technique with a stick.

Since Tong Xun came last time, he has been waiting for Tong Xun’s news these two days, but there has been no reply yet, so he is very anxious.

He has practiced this stick method back and forth more than a dozen times tonight, but he just couldn't dispel the depression in his heart.

"Dongdongdongdong..."

There were three knocks from the windows, and Tong Guan quickly put his stick back to the room. There was a person in the room, who was the boss of the study, who was the confidant who specifically guarded the entrance of the secret passage for Tong Guan.

"What's important thing about coming to see me so late?" Tong Guan asked.

The owner of the study said: "Sir, Lord Tong Xun has done the matter and everything has been shipped. Lord Tong Xun has asked them to deliver it to the outside of the palace tomorrow morning as you told me."

"That's great, finally here."

Tong Guan was very excited and walked back and forth in the room twice, then said to the study owner: "You go and tell Erlang immediately, just say that I already know this matter, I can do the next thing myself, let him be at home

Wait for my news."

"Yes." The boss returned from the secret road.

Tong Guan sat at the desk, took a pen and dipped it ink and wrote a very long memorial to Huizong. It was actually a long letter, and then sealed it with an envelope.

During the morning court the next day, Tong Guan took the letter and found the imperial guards who were guarding him, and asked them to convert the letter to Huizong.

In the Zichen Palace.

Huizong sat listlessly on the dragon throne listening to the official's comments below. Although the official said it very hard, he didn't listen to a word.

"Okay, don't say it anymore. Present the memorial and I will read it myself in a while." Huizong didn't want to listen any longer, so he looked at Wu Chenghai.

Wu Chenghai immediately asked the eunuch on duty to collect all the memorials, and then said with a sharp voice: "Retreat the court."

"I respectfully send you to Your Majesty."

As soon as Huizong came back from His Highness Zichen, he sat down when an eunuch came over and said, "Your Majesty, Tong Guan just now sent a memorial."

"He has been under house arrest, so why do he write memorials?" Huizong said.

The eunuch said, "I don't know, I just beg Your Majesty to be sure to read the emperor."

Huizong thought that Tong Guan had done a lot of things for him before and made a lot of contributions to the Song Dynasty. Then he softened his heart and said, "Give memorials."

The eunuch handed the memorial to Huizong. Huizong took it and tore it apart the edge of the envelope, took it out and opened it and looked at it.

Huizong read it very carefully and did not let go of every word.

About ten minutes later, Huizong finished reading the memorial, pondered for a moment, and said to Wu Chenghai: "Go and bring Tong Guan."

"yes."

Because it was not yet dawn and it was still dark outside, Wu Chenghai asked him to leave with the lights on his hands.

About half an hour later, Wu Chenghai came back and said, "Your Majesty, Tong Guan has brought him and is waiting outside the door."

"Let him come in." Huizong said.

The order was conveyed. After a while, Tong Guan touched the ground with his limbs, bowed his back, and crawled in from outside step by step like a dog, climbed to Huizong's feet, and then cried and said, "The criminal Tong Guan,

Kill your Majesty.”

"What are you doing this Tong Guan?" Huizong asked.

Tong Guan said: "The criminal was guilty of his Majesty's heavy trust and committed an unforgivable crime. He was speechless to face His Majesty. He could only express his guilt to His Majesty in this way."

Huizong sighed softly and said, "If I had known this, why would I have done something against you?"

Tong Guan said: "Now that I know that your Majesty will not believe anything you say, but I still have to explain some things clearly, so as not to think that you are a ruthless person."

Huizong said: "There are no other people here now. If you have anything you want to say, just say it, listen."

Tong Guan said: "That day in the hall, Commander Hua said that he had dispatched troops without authorization, and this matter did exist."

Huizong was unhappy when he heard this and said, "Since you did, why didn't you admit it at that time?"

Although Tong Guan did not see Huizong's face, he could hear from his tone that he was angry. He hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down. I am not to mobilize troops without authorization, but to Your Majesty.

”

"What, for me!"

Huizong was stunned and asked, "What do you mean by saying that?"

Tong Guan knew he would ask this, and he had already prepared a speech: "Your Majesty loves rare stones, but many ministers in the court are opposed to Your Majesty's preferences. But I really can't bear to see Your Majesty as one.

The king of the country could not even follow his own preferences. So he secretly sent imperial guards stationed in various places to look for rare stones so that he could offer them to His Majesty to enjoy them to the hearts of his ministers."

Huizong said in surprise: "You mobilized the imperial guards without authorization to find rare stones for me?"

"I dare not deceive Your Majesty. This matter is absolutely true." Tong Guan said.

Huizong asked, "Since you are for me, why didn't you say it in public in the palace that day?"

Tong Guan said: "If the day minister admits in the palace that he is looking for rare stones for His Majesty, those ministers will definitely think that they are pleading with His Majesty. If His Majesty lets them go because of this, those ministers will definitely not be able to rely on them, and even

I would think that it was because of Your Majesty’s preference for curious and rare stones that led to so many things, and I secretly became dissatisfied with Your Majesty. I didn’t want Your Majesty to be misunderstood by them, so I didn’t say it out.”

After hearing Tong Guan’s words, Huizong sighed in his heart and said, “Are you an old minister who has been following him for many years? Is it still thinking about yourself in your heart.”

"Then you have mobilized so many imperial guards to look for rare stones. Have you found them?" Huizong asked.

Tong Guan said: "I dare not deceive Your Majesty. This rare stone is extremely difficult to find, but after so long searching, I still gained some results."

Hearing that there was something gained, Huizong hurriedly asked, "Where is it?"

Tong Guan said: "I have brought someone outside the palace gate, and His Majesty will send someone to carry it in."

Huizong looked at Wu Chenghai and said, "Send someone to carry the rare stones in immediately."

"Sister obeys the order."

Wu Chenghai immediately arranged for someone to go outside the palace, and carried the box to Huizong from Zhang Yu and others who had been waiting for a long time.

Huizong looked at the boxes and found that there were twenty-three in total, each of which was three feet tall and two feet tall.

"Open the box." His Majesty said.

The eunuch stepped forward and opened all the boxes. Huizong stood up and walked to the middle of the boxes and looked at them. Seeing that they were all ordinary stones, he was a little unhappy and said to Tong Guan: "This is what you said is rare and rare.

stone?"

Tong Guan said: "Your Majesty, this is a deliberate cover-up to facilitate transportation on the way. The real rare stones are below."

"Remove all the stones on it." Huizong said.

The eunuch removed a layer of stones on all the boxes, and indeed, there were white, green, black, blue, red, colorful and other unique stones below.

When Huizong saw these colorful stones, he felt as happy as a child who had obtained his beloved toy. He walked to one of the boxes and took out a natural stone that was smooth, as white as snow, and was like a lion.

.

"Good stone, good stone."

Huizong liked it more and more the more he looked at it, and couldn't help but admire it.

Then he picked up several other stones and looked at them. Each one was a rare stone in the world.

"Okay, okay, it's really great. Tong Qing's family, if you do this well, I will definitely reward you with great rewards." Huizong said while holding a red stone like a monkey.

When Tong Guan heard this, the hanging heart finally fell down. He knew that no matter whether he could regain his post or not, at least the matter was over and his life was saved, so he would not have to worry about it anymore.

"Your Majesty, there is the most strange stone among these strange stones. The stone patterns on it are the same as those drawn by His Majesty, and it is simply as fake as real." Tong Guan said.

"Oh, there is such a strange thing. Where is that stone?" Huizong asked hurriedly.

Tong Guan said: "Just in these boxes, I don't know which box to be in."

"Take all the stones out quickly." Huizong ordered.

The eunuch took out all the stones in the box, and then one of the eunuchs said, "Your Majesty has found it, here."

Huizong hurried over and saw that it was a light red stone about the size of a washbasin. The patterns on it were indeed very similar to the flower and bird paintings he drew. If he didn't look carefully, he really thought someone was following his paintings.

Carved on stone.

"I didn't expect that the paintings I painted actually coincide with the strange patterns created by nature in heaven and earth. Good, good, hahaha..." Huizong laughed excitedly.

When Tong Guan heard Huizong's laughter, he quietly turned his head to look at Huizong, and couldn't help laughing.

In fact, this stone is not natural at all, but was made by Tong Xun as he told the stone-making master, otherwise there would be no such coincidence.

However, the skills of that stone-making master is indeed extraordinary, and it is completely at the point of being fake and real. Unless he is a stone-making master with the same skills, even a real stone-playing expert may not be able to see it.

Huizong asked someone to lift the stone onto the table. He stood in front of the table and looked around for a long time, and the more he looked, the more he loved it.

"Tong Qing's family, I like the strange stones you gave me very much. Tell me, what do you want me to reward you?" Huizong asked.

Tong Guan said: "Your Majesty is as kind as a mountain. Everything I have now is given by Your Majesty. These strange stones cannot repay Your Majesty's mercy to me at all. How dare I ask for Your Majesty's reward? As long as Your Majesty likes it,

I was happy to see it, which was the greatest reward to the minister.”

Tong Guan's words made Huizong feel very comfortable. He thought for a while and said, "Let's do this. Although you privately mobilized the imperial guards to help me find rare stones, it was violated by the court's regulations, so you can restore the secret envoy.

It's impossible, but I can relieve you of your crime of privately mobilizing the imperial guards. This matter ends here, so don't mention it again in the future. As for your official position, after this gust of wind, I will make new appointment arrangements for you

.”

"I thank you for your holy grace."
Chapter completed!