Chapter 972 Colluding with each other

Zhang Yumo seemed to see Jiang Fenghua looking at her, so she quickly covered her forehead and pretended to be dizzy and having difficulty breathing as she struggled to climb into the carriage.

She didn't know why she didn't have the same symptoms as Xiao Yu and the others. She was also afraid that Xiao Shang would force her to go to Xichuan, and what if she really died there? It would be better to let them go and find out the situation first.

Qin Yunyan caught a cold on the way and it never got better. Zhang Yumo had to take care of her and feed her every day. She had long since given up being a maid. Since leaving Shengjing, they had never worn clean clothes and had become beggars serving others.

This humiliation was brought to her by Jiang Fenghua. Her fingers, hidden in her sleeves, clenched into fists. Why should Jiang Fenghua care about her? Jiang Jinyan clearly looked down on her back then, so why did he marry her? She couldn't remember anything.

Qin Yunyan, oblivious to the danger, called out to her in a tired voice, "Water, give me some water, my throat hurts terribly."

Zhang Yumo said angrily, "If you want to drink water, don't you know how to drink it yourself? Do you really think I'm your maid?"

Qin Yunyan said, "What's wrong with you? I'm sick..."

"If you're sick, then just stay sick. I'm not your maid, and you can't really treat me like one. I've been taking care of your food, drink, and everything else along the way without asking you for money, and you still have so many demands." Zhang Yumo couldn't take it anymore. After being away for several months, she didn't want to maintain any airs of a refined lady. It was already hard enough to survive in this run-down place.

Qin Yunyan was so angry that her eyes widened. If she hadn't been sick and weak, she would have made Zhang Yumo explain in detail who was whose maid and who had done a lot of work.

Jiang Fenghua only brought one maid, Hongxiu, with her. Hongxiu was only responsible for taking care of Jiang Fenghua and didn't care about them at all. They even had to do the washing and laundry work of maids.

Qin Yunyan was also full of grievances, but she was so sick that she felt like she was going to die. If there really was a medicine that could make her live forever and never get sick again, she would be willing to exchange it for anything.

Qin Yunyan got up and poured herself some water before feeling a bit better. Did Zhang Yumo really think she was still the granddaughter of a duke? What kind of spoiled princess was she throwing?

Qin Yunyan noticed that Zhang Yumo was in a bad mood and deliberately provoked her, "You are Jiang Fenghua's sister-in-law, but she only treats you like a maid. What did you do to offend her that she would torture you like this?"

Zhang Yumo couldn't remember how she had offended Jiang Fenghua. In her previous life, Jiang Fenghua was timid and submissive, but in this life, Jiang Fenghua's eyes were sharp and vicious, like they had awls. She had no sympathy at all. Could it be that she was no longer Jiang Fenghua?

"Zhang Yumo, do you know Jiang Fenghua's secret?" Qin Yunyan asked her in a low voice.

Zhang Yumo had never told anyone how miserable Jiang Fenghua's life was in her previous life. She was silent for a moment before saying, "Under what circumstances would a person's personality change so drastically that they become unlike their original self?"

Qin Yunyan's eyes darted around. "Are you referring to Jiang Fenghua?"

"What do you mean by 'she's not the same person anymore'? If she's not the same person anymore, then who is she?" Qin Yunyan tried to get information out of her, and then said, "That Prince Xiao once told me that I would be the Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the future, with supreme power. You know that Xiao Shang is from the future, right? He found a way to be reborn and can return to the future, and I will be the Empress Dowager."

"Are you out of your mind? How dare you become Empress Dowager?" Zhang Yumo didn't want to pay any attention to her. Even if Su Tingwan became Empress Dowager, it was not her place!

"Did you think that only Su Tingwan could be Empress, and then she became Empress Dowager? But now that Jiang Fenghua has become Empress, don't you also find it unbelievable?" Qin Yunyan said softly.

Zhang Yumo hadn't expected that she knew everything.

Qin Yunyan continued, "Originally, Consort Su and her niece Su Tingwan were the ones who called the shots in the harem. At that time, the Emperor doted on Su Tingwan and ignored Jiang Fenghua, his legal wife. He was nothing like how he dotes on Jiang Fenghua now. Do you know something? Tell me!"

Zhang Yumo didn't expect that she knew everything. In fact, she only knew that Jiang Fenghua was the Princess Consort of Heng, and she didn't know what happened after that.

Qin Yunyan added, "Perhaps we can cooperate."

Zhang Yumo suddenly glanced at her, then lifted the carriage curtain and looked out. She saw Jiang Fenghua, Gongsun Lan, and the others discussing something.

"Do you have some concerns because of your husband, Jiang Jinyan? I don't think he treats you like a wife at all, and he doesn't care about you. The Jiang family only cares about themselves. You are just an outsider in the Jiang family. Don't forget that you are surnamed Zhang. When the Zhang family was punished by the emperor, the Jiang family didn't say a word to plead for her. Where does the Jiang family place you?" Qin Yunyan knew some things.

At this moment, Zhang Yumo had long forgotten her feelings for Jiang Jinyan. After hearing Qin Yunyan's words, her mind was filled with hatred for Jiang Jinyan. If she hadn't been so infatuated with Jiang Jinyan, she would never have been so foolish as to jump into the lake and commit suicide.

Qin Yunyan suddenly grabbed her wrist, pulled up her sleeve to reveal the bloodthirsty red spider lily, and said, "You and Jiang Fenghua are both under some kind of curse. I think there's some secret between you! Or is it really as Xie Shang said, that you are both reborn? Rebirth truly exists in this world. If you find the Ghost Realm, you can find the method of rebirth." She could then change the fate of the Qin family, re-enter the palace as a concubine, and then sit on the throne of Empress Dowager.

Zhang Yumo was furious, and even had murderous intent towards Qin Yunyan in her eyes. "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Xiao Shang is a reborn person, he himself admitted it. If you weren't, why did you come with him to the Ghost Realm to find the method of rebirth?" Qin Yunyan sneered. "Zhang Yumo, stop pretending. Actually, I know everything. Now we are in the same boat. If we don't cooperate, we can only wait to die. Jiang Fenghua doesn't treat you as her sister-in-law at all."

Zhang Yumo calmed down. She knew that Jiang Fenghua didn't like her, and maybe she even wanted to kill her. She couldn't die at Jiang Fenghua's hands, and she couldn't die here. She had to go back, to save her grandmother and her mother, and to save the Zhang family.

As for Jiang Jinyan, he didn't like her at all; the person he liked was Sang Yupianpian.

“Okay, let’s cooperate. How do you want to cooperate?” Zhang Yumo said.

"You and I both want to go back to the past. If we really go back, will we never have to suffer from Jiang Fenghua again?" Qin Yunyan said, "Don't worry, if we can really be reborn in the past, I will become the Empress Dowager and take care of your Zhang family. You can continue to be the granddaughter of the Duke, and the Zhang family will rise to prominence. You won't have to stay in the Jiang family and suffer anymore."

Zhang Yumo sneered: "It's still unknown who will help whom. I don't know if I can go back to the past, but I know that Empress Jiang in this life will definitely kill you. She will never allow any woman to take her position. Hmph, everyone in Shengjing knows that you wanted to seduce the emperor, but in the end you made the biggest joke."

Qin Yunyan's eyes were cold. "We're both equally bad, so neither of us should laugh at the other."

Zhang Yumo refused to admit defeat, saying, "If your body can handle it, then keep arguing! Don't die here, or everything will be in vain."