Spiritual Energy Rejuvenation: I Began Cultivating By Farming-Chapter 1983 - 1131:

Half a day later, he went to another town, and by then, it was almost dark.

In order to keep the child alive, who hadn’t eaten or drunk anything all day, it was necessary to find something for the child to eat.

Without a cart driver, he had driven the last part of the journey himself.

The box in the back of the cart contained the child, but he hadn’t looked at it once.

When the Taoist entered an inn with a box, paid for a room, ordered some food and drinks, and then closed the door to eat, drink, and play cards, the box containing the child was with him.

The Taoist opened the box, only to find there was no child inside at all.

This discovery left him with his mouth agape.

A surprised "Ah" escaped his lips.

The volume was uncontrolled, and those outside the door could hear it.

However, it was mealtime, and the guests had instructed not to be disturbed.

Other guests in the inn didn’t bother to investigate the sound.

The Taoist couldn’t believe it; he had personally put the child into the box in the morning.

Throughout the journey, except for the last stretch, where he was driving, he had been watching the box.

The Taoist thought he had been too careless and now wondered if someone had entered the cart while he was driving.

This thought led him to inspect the cart.

He couldn’t care less about eating and went to examine the cart.

He wanted to find some clue inside the cart.

Of course, the Taoist was disappointed.

The cart was from a car company; many people had sat in it before.

He had sat in it that morning, and the freshest trace was his own, naturally.

But there were other traces, remnants of strangers.

Yet, those marks were from some time ago.

The Taoist felt frustrated and angry.

He couldn’t rush back, and he couldn’t use the cart to return.

The cart was hijacked, and he had knocked out the driver.

The Taoist was bold because of his capabilities; he was confident he could handle the situation.

When he went to inspect the cart earlier, he had left the room door open.

Upon his return, the door remained open, but nothing inside was missing.

After entering, he filled himself first; the cart couldn’t be taken back.

Once he was well-fed, he planned to leave.

He could take a detour, as long as he didn’t go to that city.

Yet, he felt a bit unwilling; the child had clearly been in his cart, so how did he lose it?

The Taoist always suspected someone had followed him and must have stolen the child.

He regretted hijacking the cart and not keeping an eye on the box, letting someone steal the child.

Villains always suspect other villains.

He thought a child with such good fortune was undoubtedly stolen by someone who, like him, saw the fortune within the box.

That’s why they followed and managed to steal the child.

The Taoist did not know that the child he had hijacked wasn’t real, just the transformation of talismans.

Luo Baojun used a substitution talisman, which worked for a month; only a day had passed. If the Taoist hadn’t stolen the fake child, it would have dissolved in the air, turned to ash, and drifted away.

The Taoist no longer cared about the cart; after eating his fill, he quietly left the inn.

He didn’t care about his lodging or whether he had paid the entire amount.

After all, he hadn’t stayed, just had a meal, and left the cart behind.

The innkeeper wasn’t at a loss.

After the Taoist left, in another town, the hijacked cart’s driver reported the incident to the authorities.

The cart company had stores in many towns, including this one.

When the driver reported the case, he naturally received official support.

And they found the merchant’s boss to explain the situation.

Although he lost the cart, he had paid a deposit at the time.

However, being knocked out left him furious.

He wanted to catch the hijacker.

The cart would leave some traces passing through certain places.

Someone would have seen it; the traces could certainly be found.

The trail led through another town; as the authorities pursued it, the trail ended in this town, as night had already fallen.

They found the inn and the cart.

But they couldn’t find the person.

The innkeeper felt it was bad luck, but the lodger had paid a deposit, which covered the cost of the meal.

Unable to find the hijacker, the officials had to think of ways to track him.

In the city, in a courtyard under the night sky, Madam Huang’s sister-in-law was enchanted for an entire day.

She and her companions were released from the Illusion Array after dark.

Upon release, they thought of the child.

They searched the entire courtyard but found no trace of the child.

Huang’s family was only supposed to use a concubine-born child to swap with the Luo Family’s child, but now, not only was the swapped child missing, but so was the child they brought from home.

He certainly didn’t dare tell the truth, but neither could he avoid searching for the child.

Even with slim hopes, they wished to find their real imperial child.

If they didn’t bring the child back, her husband would beat her to death.

They had no choice but to report it to the authorities, hoping the child could be found.

When reporting, they couldn’t tell the truth, only saying the child was brought to the courtyard and then stolen.

The officials accepted the case, as they were paid, and had to investigate.

Gathering information wasn’t fast.

Madam Huang was unaware that her family had betrayed her.

She heard the news from her maid and driver at noon today, who personally relayed what had happened.

Just learning that her child had been swapped, and the swapped child was left at the manor, she had worried when the Luo Family came to search yesterday.

Worried that the Luo Family had taken the child away.

Unexpectedly, when the Luo Family arrived, the child disappeared, and her own child appeared back in the manor.

Appearing in such a manner.

Madam Huang, hearing the maid’s words, became furious, wanting to give the child to the Luo Family for fostering because of its frail body.

This wasn’t the way she wanted; the Luo Family was too ruthless, sending her child back.

In such a manner.

Madam Huang was terribly upset, what had seemed like a flawless scheme.

The Luo Family saw through it and returned the child.

She had nothing else to do but raise the child; she couldn’t take any other action. She couldn’t report the theft of a child that was merely returned to her.

The other child was seen by many at the full-moon banquet.

Madam Huang couldn’t get any more information because the Luo Family had sealed off news since yesterday’s child search.

Whether they found their child was unknown.

But now that the child was returned, she had no choice but to raise her own child.

Madam Huang knew she couldn’t do anything else for now.

She had to take good care of her own child.

She still didn’t know how many others were involved in this matter.

Unaware that the cooperating Taoist Temple and her family had betrayed her.

She rode a carriage at noon to the manor.

When she heard the maid’s words, in anger, she slapped the maid.

Today was the full-moon banquet for the Huang Family’s child, but they didn’t hold it grandly due to the child.

Her family and in-laws were aware of the situation.

Madam Huang was not concerned with the banquet now.

She just hoped to raise her child well, so they could celebrate the hundred-day and first-year banquet.

When Madam Huang met privately with the maid, arriving at the manor with the slapped maid, her in-laws couldn’t interfere.

Her husband, since becoming a Scholar, spent her money at the academy and socialized lavishly for appearances.

Her in-laws didn’t know their plans had failed.

Madam Huang’s mother-in-law and sisters didn’t dare say anything.

They could gossip behind her back but not dare say anything to her face, recognizing her prowess as a daughter-in-law.

Madam Huang went into the manor without carrying anything, as there was a wet nurse, she didn’t intend to breastfeed the child herself.

The plan had been to swap the child; she never intended to raise it personally.