"What are you doing?" Situ Yao hadn't seen Su Mengyan like this for a long time, and asked involuntarily.
Su Mengyan was so engrossed in looking at the roster that she was startled when Situ Yao opened his mouth.
Seeing Su Mengyan so serious, Situ Yao couldn't help but turn his gaze to the desk. When he saw the names on it clearly, he felt a little surprised.
"Yan'er, what is this?" He had an intuition that what Su Mengyan was looking at seemed to be the roster he was looking for.
Sure enough, after hearing Situ Yao's question, Su Mengyan directly picked up the booklet, waved it in front of Situ Yao's eyes and said, "This, this is the roster that the emperor is looking for."
"Yan'er, where did you find this roster?" Situ Yao was extremely surprised. He had spent so much effort but still couldn't find this roster. He didn't even know who the so-called old concubine was. He didn't expect to find the roster he was looking for here with Su Mengyan.
Seeing Situ Yao so happy, Su Mengyan was also very happy in her heart. She felt that she had done something useful for Situ Yao again.
Ever since Situ Yao ascended the throne, he had no longer been able to get involved in many things. He thought it would be the same in the future, but he didn't expect that he would help him again in this matter this time.
When Su Mengyan heard Situ Yao asking her where the roster came from, she did not hide it and told him about how she found the Concubine Dowager in the cold palace, and also explained how she got the roster.
Seeing Su Mengyan happy because of her happiness after getting the roster, Situ Yao's eyes were also full of tenderness. She praised Su Mengyan generously and then said, "Yan'er, this time, thanks to you, I got the roster. Otherwise, who knows how many nameless people would have died tragically without being known."
In response to Situ Yao's praise, Su Mengyan just smiled slightly and didn't say much.
"Yan'er, I will take this roster to the Ministry of Justice and let them check it out." After being happy, Situ Yao remembered the important business, picked up the roster and left Feng Palace.
When Situ Yao took the roster to the Ministry of Justice, he immediately ordered it to investigate the affairs of the harem. The Ministry of Justice immediately stepped up its efforts and, in just a few days, it had found out the exact number of people in the harem. Only then did they discover that so many people had disappeared from the harem.
The Ministry of Justice naturally did not dare to conceal the fact that so many people disappeared for no reason, so it immediately reported the results of its investigation to Situ Yao.
When Situ Yao heard this result, he couldn't help but get angry. He didn't expect that so many people in his harem had lost their lives for no reason. Although they just disappeared and no one knew whether they were alive or dead, it was very likely that there would be no good news.
As usual, after receiving this unpleasant news, he came to Su Mengyan and confided in her. Then Su Mengyan also learned that countless people in the harem had disappeared for unknown reasons.
Su Mengyan couldn't help but sigh in her heart. It turned out that this was not a society ruled by law. So many people in the harem disappeared for no reason, and no one investigated. If it weren't for the fact that there have been a lot of things happening recently and she wanted to investigate on a whim, she wouldn't have known about it.
After knowing this matter, she naturally could not sit idly by, so she recruited all the concubines in the harem and asked them to gather in Feng Palace.
When the concubines heard the Queen's call, they were all nervous, wondering what the Queen wanted to discuss this time.
But no matter what those people thought, they naturally could not pretend not to hear Su Mengyan's call, so they came to Su Mengyan one by one dressed in palace costumes.
Seeing all the concubines in the harem gathered in her palace, Su Mengyan said, "There's nothing important that I'm summoning you for. It's just that, as you all know, the emperor is investigating the disappearance of the maids and eunuchs in the harem, so I want to find out the number of people in your palace."
So that's how it is. After hearing Su Mengyan's words, some people breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, some people were also very nervous.
Chen Yalan, Fu Liu, An Lirong and others were the first to take the brunt of the action and clearly stated how many people there were in their palace and what positions they held.
Seeing this, Su Mengyan nodded at them and praised them, "Although you are the masters of the palace, you are so clear about the distribution of the slaves in the palace. It shows that you are attentive."
Although Li Aimi had just entered the palace not long ago, there were quite a few people in her palace. When she heard Xu Chuchu reveal the number of people in her palace, Li Aimi was a little surprised. She didn't expect that the number of people in her palace was actually more than that of Xu Chuchu.
But at this moment, she also knew that she absolutely could not speak, so she knelt on the ground and apologized to Su Mengyan, "Please forgive me, Queen. I am new here and do not know the rules of the palace, so there are many palace maids here. Now I know that you sisters do not have that many palace maids. I am willing to expel the extra palace maids and let the Queen make your arrangements."
She acted extremely humble and took the initiative to ask the Queen to arrange other palace maids to other places. Su Mengyan naturally nodded in agreement.
However, in the harem, Li Eimi is definitely not the only one with extra palace maids. Lin Xiaoxiang is one of them. There are a lot of palace maids in her palace.
However, at this time, Lin Xiaoxiang relied on the fact that she was pregnant with the dragon heir and thought that Su Mengyan would not dare to do anything to her. However, Lin Xiaoxiang was not a fool after all. She knew that if she openly told Su Mengyan the number of people in her palace, she would definitely give Su Mengyan face and drive out the extra people in the palace.
However, she felt that her status warranted so many people serving her, so she sat down and lazily said a number of people, which was the number of people she should be treated according to her status.
However, just as she finished her words, Xu Chuchu stood up and said, "Oh, so Consort Lin only has so few people in the palace. But the last time I went to your palace, I clearly saw that there were at least thirty or forty people in your palace."
How could everyone present not see that Lin Xiaoxiang was lying, but they had no evidence so they had to keep silent. And Xu Chuchu wanted to curry favor with Lin Xiaoxiang last time, but was insulted by Xu Xiaoxiang. Naturally, she felt very unfair. Now that she finally got an opportunity, she would not let it go.
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