Three Drops of Blood

Zhou Renrui is a native of Wutai County, Shanxi Province, and does business in Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province. His wife died after giving birth to twin sons. Zhou Renrui was unable to raise his second son, so he asked his neighbor Mrs. Wang to sell his second son to Li Sanniang as his heir, and named him Li Yuchun. The eldest son was left to be nursed by Wang's mother and named Zhou Tianyou. Zhou Renrui returned to his hometown with Tianyou because his business collapsed. Zhou Renrui's younger brother Zhou Renxiang and his wife, who monopolized the family property, did not recognize Tianyou as Zhou Renrui's biological son, and were involved in a lawsuit. The county magistrate Jin Xinshu was a rotten scholar who chewed books. He saw that the sages of Runan had a record of "Chen Ye shed blood to recognize relatives", so he used this method to solve the case. Seeing that the blood of Zhou Renrui and his son could not melt in the water, they mistakenly concluded that they were not flesh and blood, and ordered Tianyou to be escorted out of the country and return to his clan on his own. Yuchun grew up under the care of Li Sanniang. He is a sibling with Li Sanniang's biological daughter Wanchun, and they have a very harmonious relationship. Li Sanniang wanted Yuchun to inherit the family, and she made an agreement with Wang's mother, pretending that her daughter Wanchun was his adopted daughter, and wanted to marry Yuchun, but before they got married, Li Sanniang died of illness. Ruan Ziyong, a local tycoon, has been coveting Wan Chun for a long time. He fabricated Geng Tie and used the opportunity to express his condolences to come to marry her and provoke a lawsuit. Jin Xinshu came to review the case. Jin Xinshu still used the method of identifying relatives by shedding blood. Seeing that the two people's blood merged, he mistakenly concluded that the two were siblings of the same mother and could not get married, and sentenced Wan Chun to...