Early the next morning, Guo Ying personally came to visit with gifts.

Ning Fu and Liu Qingxin personally welcomed her into their home, and then asked Shi Hua and others to leave.

"My sister-in-law, Mrs. Liu, pays homage to my cousin!"

Liu Qingxin stepped forward and bowed Yingying.

"My sister is pregnant, so don't be too polite!"

Guo Ying supported Liu Qingxin and then asked her to sit down carefully.

"It's been a few months. When will the baby be born?"

Guo Ying looked at Liu Qingxin's bulging belly and asked with concern.

"It's been eight months, and I estimate that the baby will be born in just over a month."

"Oh, you have to be even more careful. When I was pregnant with my child, the doctor told me that I must be more careful in the month before delivery..."

Guo Ying is also a mother, and Liu Qingxin is her only sister-in-law, carrying the flesh and blood of their Ning family in her belly.

Therefore, Guo Ying also behaved very kindly and started to share her pregnancy experience with her. Ning Fu was standing aside but could not say anything.

As long as women find a topic to talk about, it is easy to close the distance between them.

During this period, Guo Ying also gave the gifts he brought to Liu Qingxin. Although the mountains were poor, there were still some specialties, and Liu Qingxin accepted them very happily.

At noon, Ning Fu personally cooked a table of dishes, which shocked Guo Ying even more. He didn't expect his cousin to be so good at cooking.

After lunch, Ning Fu and Liu Qingxin invited Guo Ying to the inner house for a chat.

At this moment, Liu Zheng finally arrived, and Ning Fu immediately came to the front hall to greet him.

"What is it that requires me to go there personally? I still have a lot of things on my hands?"

Liu Zheng asked immediately when he saw Ning Fu.

There were a lot of things going on in Dali Temple during this period, so Liu Zheng was extremely busy. If Ning Fu hadn't said there was something important, he wouldn't have taken the time to go there.

"My cousin is here!"

Ning Fu gets straight to the point.

"What?"

Liu Zheng didn't react for a while.

"Cousin, I went to Liao Kingdom this time and met my second uncle who had been separated for many years."

Ning Fu replied seriously.

"Your second uncle? Didn't he die long ago?"

Liu Zheng was suddenly startled. Apparently he had heard Ning's father mention Ning Guo before.

"My second uncle did not die, but fled to the Liao Kingdom. He reversed his name and changed it to Guo Ning and lived in the Liao Kingdom until a severe drought a few years ago..."

Ning Fu briefly told the story of Mr. Guo, and also told the story of how he and the other party recognized each other.

When Liu Zheng heard that Ning Fu was almost killed by Mr. Guo to offer sacrifices to heaven, he was so frightened that sweat broke out on his forehead. He did not want his precious daughter to become a widow just after she got pregnant.

"This is what happened. My cousin came to Beijing in the name of negotiating for surrender. She mainly wanted to meet my family. Now she is chatting with Qingxin in the inner house. Do you want to meet her?"

"Does she know who I am?"

Liu Zheng asked again.

"My cousin only knows that you are my father-in-law, but does not know anything about you and my father."

Ning Fu replied that he had not told Mr. Guo about Liu Zheng before, so of course Guo Ying didn't know either.

I saw Liu Zheng thinking deeply for a while, and finally he suddenly raised his head and stared at Ning Fu and asked: "Tell me honestly, since you and your second uncle have already known each other, why do you still hide your relationship?"

"Isn't it obvious? Second uncle lives in the Liao Kingdom and controls a military force. Even if he is recruited and surrendered in the future, the court will still not trust him. Therefore, in order not to affect my official career, second uncle refuses to disclose our information to the public.

relationship."

Ning Fu blinked and said.

"I'm afraid it's more than that?"

Liu Zheng did not believe this reason.

"Father-in-law, you are really suspicious!"

Ning Fu complained, then spread his hands and said again.

"Well, my second uncle is also worried that after he joins the imperial court, the imperial court will send people to investigate his background. If it is found out that he and his father rebelled, my identity may be exposed."

"This is a pretty reasonable explanation, but why do I feel like you have other intentions?"

Liu Zheng still stared at Ning Fu and asked again.

"What else do I have in mind? You must be overthinking it!"

Ning Fu affirmed again.

"Yeah?"

Liu Zheng glanced at Ning Fu suspiciously.

"The imperial court's recruitment of the Guo family army is of great significance to the imperial court. The Guo family army will definitely be reused in the future. You, the Ning family, all take the restoration of the country as your own responsibility. In this way, don't you have an army that is loyal to you?"

Liu Zheng told his guess.

"Why did you mention the restoration of the country again?"

Ning Fu made a dumbfounded expression.

"I am now the Qing Pingbo of the Song Dynasty, and I am deeply trusted by the officials. I will have many predecessors in the future. My second uncle has been living abroad these years. Now he is old and does not even have a son. He has long lost the ambitions he had back then.

"

Ning Fu paused here and continued.

"Now for the second uncle, his biggest wish is for the child in Qingxin's belly to be born safely, so that our Ning family can have children as soon as possible!"

Ning Fu sighed again at the end, as if he was very disappointed that Liu Zheng doubted him.

"Your second uncle really has no intention of restoring the country?"

Liu Zheng didn't believe it. He had heard Ning's father mention it at the beginning. Their brothers had been warned since they were young that they had to live for the restoration of the country in this life. That's why Ning's father had such a big obsession. Ning Fu's two

My uncle will definitely not be worse than Ning's father.

"You are always too suspicious. It is not convenient for my second uncle to come to the capital this time. Fortunately, my cousin is here. If you don't believe me, you can ask her. She will definitely not be interested in the restoration of the country!"

Ning Fu vowed again.

The second master Guo had no son, and usually relied on his eldest daughter Guo Ying the most, so the second master Guo told Guo Ying about the origins of the Ning family. Except for her, the rest of the Guo family did not know that they were from the royal family of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

But because Guo Ying was a woman, Mr. Guo did not entrust her with the important task of restoring the country.

When Ning Fu was on the road, she had talked with Guo Ying and knew that she was not very interested in the restoration of the country. Of course, if Mr. Guo and Ning Fu wanted to restore the country, she would not hesitate to follow them.

"Okay, then I'll meet your cousin!"

Liu Zheng finally agreed.

It's not that Liu Zheng is suspicious, it's that he can't understand what Ning Fu is doing more and more, so sometimes he has to think about it in other ways.

So Ning Fu took Liu Zheng to the inner house.

Guo Ying was chatting happily with Liu Qingxin, and when she saw Liu Zheng, she also came forward to salute. Especially when she learned that Liu Zheng was on good terms with her uncle, she respected him very much.

Speaking of which, both Liu Zheng and Guo Ying knew about the restoration of the country, but neither of them mentioned it.
Chapter completed!