Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Blood kinship testing is too authoritative.

In Yu Shizhang's mind, the fact that "Shen Zheng is Meng Er" seemed to have become an indisputable fact.

He began to think about how to suppress the matter, send the Meng family away, and didn't even have the mind to look at the blood that Xu Yunyan dripped into the bowl.

Unexpected events can always come unexpectedly.

Seeing that Xu Yunyan's drop of blood only hung in the water for a moment before gradually merging with the previous pale red, Meng Huailin's smile froze on his face.

what happened?

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, looking as if he had seen a ghost.

How can it be?

Besides Huai Shi, he also has... brothers?

However, he rejected the idea shortly afterward.

impossible......

Absolutely impossible!

Father would never do anything to betray Mother!

"What... what's going on?" He raised his hand and gently touched the rim of the bowl, as if trying to shake away the beads of Xu Yunyan's blood. "No, this isn't right... how could Lord Xu possibly be of the Meng family bloodline? This water... is there something wrong with the water?!"

Meng Zhu was also stunned.

She looked at the man standing next to Shen Zheng, whose expression was slightly cold, and couldn't help but recall what Shen Zheng had just said.

"What if he's our second brother?"

Second brother?

Is there really such a coincidence in this world?

Along with finding the second sister, did they also find a second brother?

But where did this second brother come from?

Yu Nanshu's eyes gradually became suspicious: "Brother Xu, are you really from Liuyang Prefecture?"

Could it be that Brother Xu is actually Sister Shen's blood relative?!

What the hell is this!

Xu Yunyan looked down at the wound on his finger, then at the bowl of water: "I am indeed from Liuyang Prefecture, and I am the biological son of my parents."

"this......"

Just as Yu Nanshu was racking her brains trying to figure it out, Shen Zheng handed her a piece of broken porcelain: "Nanshu, put a drop in too."

Yu Nanshu immediately took the porcelain shard and, without blinking, cut her fingertip.

"Tick-tock-"

All eyes were on the bowl of water.

A moment later, the blood and water mingled, and Yu Nanshu suddenly looked at Shen Zheng, shocked: "Big sister?!"

good good!

In this way, Sister Shen can really change her surname to "Yu".

Cui Jinyin was stunned.

Meng Huailin was also stunned.

Shen Zheng, holding Xu Yunyan's hand with one hand and Yu Nanshu's hand with the other, asked Meng Huailin, "Shall we continue?"

If this continues, everyone present, young and old, will truly become a "loving family."

Meng Huailin couldn't accept the reality before him, but he was indeed very curious about what would happen next and wanted to know which step had gone wrong.

"Let's continue..."

Shen Zheng raised an eyebrow slightly and handed the porcelain shard to Cui Jinyin.

Cui Jinyin ultimately dared not harm herself, and could only close her eyes, handing over the porcelain shards and her fingers to her lifelong enemy.

Yu Nanshu laughed at her for being timid, but her movements were exceptionally gentle.

Before she could even feel the pain, Yu Nanshu said, "It's all done."

Withdrawing her finger, she slowly turned her head and saw a scene that was expected, yet still hard for her to believe—her blood had actually mingled with the blood of her teacher, Yu Nanshu, Brother Xu, and the Meng siblings.

"...My uncle is the Minister of Personnel!" After a moment of stunned silence, she suddenly looked at Meng Huailin, her face full of wariness. "Don't even think about trying to scam me!"

Meng Huailin was completely stunned; his previous joy had vanished.

Yu Shizhang roughly understood what was going on, picked up a piece of broken porcelain, and said with a smile, "Let me join in the fun too."

After saying this, a drop of blood dripped from his fingertip into the bowl of water.

The expected integration.

At this point, the "family recognition water" had completely turned into a chaotic mess.

The seven people present, representing five different surnames, were somehow brought together as one family by this bowl of water.

A gust of autumn wind, a gust of desolation.

“Young man of the Meng family, what do you say?” Yu Shizhang took out a handkerchief and pressed it against his fingers. “According to age, you should call me Grandpa. Of course, I am unwilling to change my surname to Meng, after all, my Yu family is large and powerful.”

Meng Huailin's lips moved, but no sound came out.

He had no idea what the problem was.

How could the blood of those seven people have mixed together?

Is there something wrong with the water, or...?

"The Blood Mixing Method is wrong from the start." Shen Zheng picked up the bowl of water and said, word by word, "In this world, people, regardless of gender or age, whether they are related or not, can mix blood as long as they drop it into the same bowl of water. This is not proof of blood ties."

Meng Huailin was stunned: "The Blood Combination Method... is wrong? But... but it's a method officially approved by the imperial court, how could it be wrong..."

"No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes." Shen Zheng put the bowl of water back. "Although this method was decreed by the imperial court, it is indeed wrong. I have long wanted to submit a memorial to the Ministry of Justice to investigate the error, but I have been tied up with trivial matters and have not done so. And now, the blood mixed in this bowl has indeed confirmed this error. Young Master Meng, please stop calling me 'Second Sister'."

"Snapped--"

Mengzhu accidentally knocked a plate off her sleeve.

Everyone looked at her.

She found the scene before her utterly ridiculous.

He traveled a long way to find his relatives, only to be thoroughly humiliated.

He truly lives up to his reputation as someone who wields great power and holds a high position... He dares to point out the faults of the imperial court as soon as he opens his mouth.

Their coming to claim kinship is indeed a great honor for them.

"Brother, let's go. Huai Shi is still waiting for us at the inn."

Mengzhu didn't want to stay a moment longer.

Meng Huailin hesitated for a long time: "Could it be...could it be that there's something wrong with the water or the bowl?"

Shen Zheng sat back down on the stool and looked at him: "If you still don't believe me, you can try it on a few more strangers when you get back."

"Alright, you should go back to Yanzhou to find evidence first." Yu Shizhang stood up to "see you out": "It's getting late, so I won't keep you two any longer."

Meng Zhu pursed her lips: "Big brother, let's go..."

Meng Huailin's steps were unsteady, but he eventually followed her out of the waterside pavilion.

After the Meng siblings had gone some distance, Yu Nanshu approached Shen Zheng and asked, "Sister Shen, what exactly happened? Is the Blood Mixing Method really wrong? Or...did you have someone add something to the water?"

Shen Zheng smiled, picked up the bowl of water, and poured the bloody water into the pool.

“If I order someone to add something to the water, our blood will not mix.”

Yu Nanshu asked, puzzled, "Huh? What do you mean?"

"What I mean is... the method of blood-matching for kinship is indeed wrong." Shen Zheng called over a servant, handed over the porcelain bowl, and added, "It is indeed an oversight by the court and the Ministry of Justice."

Over the years, I don't know how many families have been mismatched by this blood test for kinship.

Yu Nanshu's mouth opened slightly: "Then, is there any way to prevent blood from mixing?"

"Add alum to the bowl of water." Shen Zheng picked up her chopsticks, took a piece of the now-cooled glutinous rice chicken, and put it in her mouth. "Alum dissolves in water and produces glue. That glue can coat the blood droplets, preventing them from mixing temporarily."

Yu Nanshu: Another day of learning new things.

After pondering for a while, she looked outside the pavilion and voiced her guess: "Sister Shen, I think... Young Master Meng won't just give up like that."

Shen Zheng swallowed the sticky rice chicken: "It's alright, at least I made my stance clear."