Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 468 - 46: Family Members for Only Nineteen Ninety

Li Mumu went out for a stroll and, upon her return, received a task that left her feeling quite perplexed.

Principal Zhou had asked her to take this family to the Seaside District and act as their translator.

What exactly are you here for? And you need a translator?

Indeed, no one else was suited for the job. Although Jiang Yinyin and her peers had studied English for a year, their knowledge was limited to asking "why is it always you," which made communicating with foreigners rather challenging.

It was through Principal Zhou’s introduction that she learned the family’s last name was Ma and that their visit to Tianmen was to seek relatives.

Does searching for relatives really necessitate such a grand procession with the entire family coming over?

Li Mumu didn’t quite understand.

Recalling certain fragments she had glimpsed amid the temporal tides that night, she vaguely sensed some karmic entanglement with this family but couldn’t determine the cause or origin of this connection.

After all, they were providing transportation and paying for services, so it wasn’t any trouble on her part. She figured she might as well treat it as a day out.

The others were okay; the grandmother kept watch, and on the journey, everyone else stayed well-behaved, not daring to step out of line. Even if they were curious about Li Mumu, they only stole glances and didn’t dare to get too familiar. Only the little baby in the woman’s arms, for some reason, took a liking to Li Mumu, constantly cooing at her. When Li Mumu ignored the child, she would burst into loud cries, much to her mother’s embarrassment.

The grandmother smiled and said, "This is my little granddaughter; she’s been spoiled by her parents since she was little. Don’t take her behavior personally."

Li Mumu thought to herself, how could I possibly take a child’s behavior personally... apart from the one in my mother’s belly, I quite like other kids.

The little one struggled to lunge into her arms, but Li Mumu hesitated to catch her, worrying about the possibility of handling the child poorly and having no one to reason with if something went wrong.

The Ma family’s eldest daughter, seeing her longing look, scooped up her little sister and placed her in Li Mumu’s arms: "Student Li, here, play with her! Don’t be scared, this one is tough!"

Li Mumu almost didn’t catch her and broke out in a cold sweat.

Aren’t you all taking this a bit too lightly?

However, the little one was sweet and cuddly and showed no sign of stranger danger. She stood on Li Mumu’s legs and stretched out her hands, trying to touch her face. Li Mumu made a fierce face on purpose, but instead of scaring her, it only provoked giggles from the child.

The grandmother nodded and said, "The child seems to have a bit of a connection with the Little Bodhisattva; we may have to trouble you to look after her from time to time in the future."

This comment was strange, prompting Li Mumu to think it over.

Seeing that the grandmother had no intention of explaining, Li Mumu didn’t press further.

This was, in fact, the first time Li Mumu had visited the Binhai District during the day. The environment here was much nicer than in the old city district, feeling like the difference between a city’s new district and the urban-rural fringe... which might indeed be the case.

Once inside the Binhai District, the number of foreigners on the streets increased dramatically; even the shop signs on both sides of the road were in English.

For Li Mumu, it was as though she were returning to Saifu’s hometown.

But for the Ma family, it wasn’t quite so welcoming.

The younger members of the family were quite enthusiastic, peeking around curiously, but the adults had serious expressions as if they had something on their minds.

Li Mumu tentatively asked, "Grandma, are you just passing through, or do you plan to stay a couple of days here?"

The grandmother nodded, "We might need to delay our stay a bit."

"Should we find accommodations first then?"

"Yes, we need to find a place to stay, but we are unfamiliar with the area here and will have to trouble you to help us arrange something."

Seeing that the grandmother was about to reach for sunflower seeds, Li Mumu quickly waved her hand, "It’s no trouble at all; you don’t need to be so polite with me."

The eldest daughter raised her hand, "I want to live by the seaside! I want to see the ocean! I crave seafood! I want to eat big crabs!"

Li Mumu’s little girl also raised her hand, "Ah ah! Big party!"

Her mother glared at her fiercely, "Eat what seafood? I think you look just like seafood!"

The little girl laughed out loud.

"And you! You cling to people so heavily, don’t you think they get tired? Hurry up and come back!"

The woman reached out to hold the little girl, but the little one turned her head and hid in Li Mumu’s embrace, refusing to acknowledge her.

The woman had a resigned expression as if thinking, "Without me, this family would fall apart."

Li Mumu didn’t find the weight too much, but she did feel a bit hot, and the little girl kept drooling, which wet the front of her clothing.

She wasn’t actually very familiar with Seaside District, so she just found a random inn for this family

As soon as she got out of the car, a foreign monk with prayer beads around his neck and a small melon hat on his head approached them with an alms bowl, smilingly asking, "Excuse me, would you be interested in knowing about the Heavenly Father and Holy Mother’s..."

"No, thank you."

Li Mumu declined without a second thought.

Before, she had always had a question she couldn’t make sense of,

where there’s demand, there will be supply.

This is true in China as well, not to mention those formal temples and monasteries. Common people’s personal household shrines might be worshipping something introduced by a Seventh Aunt or Eighth Auntie, just trying it out because they’ve heard it’s effective.

As long as you don’t put yourself in the spotlight, the authorities don’t have the energy or inclination to bother with you.

Li Mumu was used to such things long ago, but the old grandma took it very seriously and pulled Li Mumu aside to ask quietly, "Could you please help ask if this master has heard of the Black Granny Temple?"

There’s no need to ask, he surely hasn’t heard of it, because even I haven’t heard of it.

Being an attendant, Li Mumu was quite well-informed within these circles. If even she hadn’t heard of something, how could this fake monk, with an unknown background, possibly know?

However, since she was here to interpret, she couldn’t just act on her own preferences.

So she stopped the foreign monk and tentatively inquired.

The foreign monk initially shook his head with a smile, but after Li Mumu dropped five yuan into his alms bowl, he immediately changed his tune, "Are you referring to the darkness/Holy Mother/cathedral?"

What???

What’s that?

Something about Diablo and Qianduanyu...no, what dark cathedral?

I was talking about the Black Granny Temple...okay, it sounds like...it might be the same thing.

"So where can we find this, uh... dark something cathedral?"

Li Mumu took out another five yuan and asked sincerely.

The foreign monk put his hands together and replied earnestly, "It’s not difficult, just light the specially consecrated incense handcrafted by the Holy Mother herself at midnight when there’s nobody around, bow your head in prayer three times, and someone will come to lead all of you to the cathedral to be baptized."

"Incense... So where can we buy this special kind of incense you mentioned?"

"It’s quite a coincidence, as I just happen to have one box left here, only nineteen ninety-nine. Oh right, in US dollars."

Suddenly, Li Mumu really wanted to ask, if so many of us each took a slash at you, could we get a discount?