ARRESTMENT AND TORTURE 1

That order was implemented in a flash. Every order of arrestment and interrogation was always carried out rapidly in Ming, especially if the order was released by the Fan Wang. In the evening, San Hu Wei soldiers had been besieging Huan Shikang's luxurious mansion on a massive scale. They banged on the gate violently, and when the frightened doorman opened the gate, the soldiers immediately entered and assailed into the mansion.

On the other hand, Huan Shikang was totally unafraid of the San Hu Wei's arrival. He even chuckled happily to Suo Junhuan and De Ta.

"It's totally the same with what Rumilie said. The soldiers will surely come. We indeed provoke them too much. But... it's just begun..." His lips were in a pout. "But instead, the cunning Rumilie disappeared from here, by the excuse that he wants to focus on doing another strategy. And we get this awful part!"

Right after Huan Shikang finished his words, the soldiers broke down the door, pointing their weapons towards all of them. Huan Shikang smirked. "I have been waiting for you. You are going to arrest us, right?"

The chief soldier said harshly, "You've been aware of your faults, it then makes things easier. Come with us, quick!"

Lifting his nose and snorting aloud, Huan Shikang, accompanied by Suo Junhuan and De Ta, let their hands bound tightly by the soldiers and right now, followed the soldiers out of their mansion. Even though Huan Shikang was treated like prisoners, he behaved haughtily. As if the soldiers took him to be inaugurated as a great leader.

We will indeed become great leaders before long. I will become the Emperor, right after this game ends! Huan Shikang laughed happily in his mind.

"Where will we go?" In the stillness of the cold night, Suo Junhuan asked.

"No need for you to know." The chief soldier answered rudely.

"Where will we go?" Still, Suo Junhuan insisted on asking the same question.

"You idiot! Can't you hear my words just now?!"

"Where will we go?"

Suo Junhuan's harshness made the chief soldier sigh furiously, but finally, he relented and replied with a frown, "To Kaifeng Palace." How come these people aren't scared and even look happy anyway? So strange. Are they out of their minds?!

"Kaifeng Palace?!" Huan Shikang burst out a laugh. "My goodness! Don't tell me that you aren't arresting us but granting something very special to us instead! Hahaha! So exciting!" He licked his lips.

"You are crazy!" The chief soldier drew his sword, was about to hit Huan Shikang, but he missed because Huan Shikang managed to dodge. "How dare you insult us! Well, let's see it then! The punishment waiting for you will be very cruel and terrible!"

Soon they arrived at Kaifeng Palace. Huan Shikang changed his haughty expression; he widened his eyes, looking around in awe - he even sipped his saliva several times as he saw the beauty stretched before him.

Such a luxurious and magnificent building... a neat palace garden... tall and hefty warriors standing in a long line like a dragon... my Heaven! The power a Fan Wang possesses is so immense, then how about the power of the Emperor?!

They were escorted to a room with minimalist decoration whose interior arrangement immediately dimmed Huan Shikang's lustful of power. Zhu Su deliberately chose a remote and inconspicuous room in order to interrogate them in as much detail as possible. He would personally interrogate them, yet Li Heng, Liu Ku, Qu You, Wu Qi, and other members of the Team of Wellbeing still accompanied him. Since the arrest was based on the health issue, then it must be the experts who must carry out the interrogation to get the desired result.

"Are you ready to interrogate your mortal enemy?" Zhu Su asked Liu Ku. Liu Ku did make an odd expression when Zhu Su let him participate to interrogate Suo Junhuan - as if he was very happy, but at the same time, he was worried.

Liu Ku gave a weird smile. "Hmmm... yeah. I'm ready, Your Highness!"

"I know you must be tempted to get revenge, but please remember; this is a state matter, a matter that concerns many people's lives. So, separate personal affairs from state affairs."

"I understand, Your Highness. Understand... very much."

So, from the beginning, Liu Ku had guessed that it should be the expression Suo Junhuan showed when he saw him. His eyes went round in surprise, and for the first time, fear was etched on his face.

"Liu Ku..." He whispered. "So... it's all your job..."

Meanwhile, De Ta's eyes widened when he saw Zhu Su. He shouted in his mind, That man! I've guessed he mustn't be just anybody from the beginning... but I never guess that he is Zhou Wang himself!

"Do you know why you must be here?" Sitting on a mahogany chair, Zhu Su asked coldly to those who had now been pushed to kneel on the ground.

Instead of answering, Huan Shikang asked arrogantly, "So, you are Zhou Wang?"

"Damn you! You have no right to say so impolitely to His Highness!" Wu Qi shouted angrily.

Huan Shikang chuckled. "Yes... Your Highness Zhou Wang... You must have arrested us on charges of defamation towards the government as well as a provocation, right?"

"No," Zhu Su replied still with the same cold voice. "The reason why you have to be here right now is, that you are presumptuous about making a public duping in health issues!"

Huan Shikang's expression slightly changed. "Public duping? What kind of cool do we do to the public anyway?"

"You always do medical shows every Geng time, don't you? There you treat patients with acupuncture needles whose length has exceeded the normal limit, and it is also thrust into dangerous spots?"

"Ah, that issue!" Huan Shikang widened his mouth to form the letter "O". "My goodness, Your Highness. It is how we heal the sick. Our patients are the sufferers of severe illness that can not be cured even by famous physicians, as the treatments used for them are a mere ordinary method, hence we have to use unusual methods to treat them. How can you say that as public duping?!"