Queen, I don’t know what kind of pomp and ceremony it will be, so I’m right to listen to her.”

Leng Yi said: "Okay, then I'll listen to you two. Warm the wine."

Xiao Zhouhou walked to the closet, opened the cabinet, took out an antique bronze wine set, and placed it on the table.

This wine warmer is about a foot high and is made of bronze. The lower layer has hollow triangular legs carved into the shape of ancient animals. The lower layer is a small copper box that can be pulled out, and a charcoal fire is placed inside for heating. The upper layer is a container.

The deep concave water vessels are engraved with various patterns both inside and outside, including mandarin ducks playing in the water, cranes and auspicious clouds, and birds and animals.

Xiao Zhouhou took out the charcoal box, put a few pieces of charcoal from the charcoal stove into it, then picked up a kettle and poured hot water into the warm wine pool above. Then he put two wine cups filled with wine into the hot water and said

: "It's done!"

Leng Yi and Zhuo Qiaoniang were surprised to see it. Leng Yi did not use a wine warmer in modern society and drank wine directly from the bottle. Although Zhuo Qiaoniang had seen it before, she had never seen many such exquisite and simple wine warmers.

The things in this room were all brought from the Southern Tang Dynasty when Li Yu and his wife returned to the Song Dynasty. The Southern Tang Dynasty was located in the prosperous south of the Yangtze River, so naturally there were many good things.

Empress Xiao Zhou said: "This bronze wine warmer is an ancient relic, from the Shang and Zhou dynasties! It is said that King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty and his concubine Daji used this wine warmer to drink wine in the meat forest of the wine pool."

Leng Yi smiled and said: "So powerful? I heard that Daji was a thousand-year-old fox demon with unparalleled beauty. Under the orders of Nuwa, she came down to earth to bewitch King Zhou of Shang, which eventually led to the demise of the Shang Dynasty."

Xiao Zhou Hou wondered: "Daji is a thousand-year-old fox demon? How come I didn't know!"

Daji really existed in history, but before the Song Dynasty, she was not as bad as later described. The legend about Daji being a thousand-year-old fox demon comes from the Ming Dynasty novel "Fengshen Yanyi". It is naturally impossible for the Xiao Zhou Empress in the Song Dynasty

I know. However, in the Song Dynasty, the demise of the Shang Dynasty was already attributed to Daji, a beautiful woman. "The Romance of the Gods" only made it more graphic and demonized.

Perhaps in order to cover up his embarrassment, Leng Yi ran out of words and said, "That's right. I heard it from the old people in the village when I was a child. They also said that Daji was later caught by Jiang Ziya, and the executioner on the execution ground held a knife to kill her.

But because she was so beautiful, the executioner was so fascinated that he cried bitterly and would rather commit suicide by wiping his neck than cutting off her head. As a last resort, Jiang Ziya used a magic weapon to make her appear, and used the immortal-killing flying knife.

Cut off her head."

Xiao Zhouhou's eyes widened: "Is this really true? Why haven't I heard of it? - Sister, have you heard of it?" Xiao Zhouhou looked at Zhuo Qiaoniang.

The only means of disseminating information in ancient times were books, and what was passed down orally was nothing more than some folk tales. Zhuo Qiao Niang didn’t know many Chinese characters, so she basically couldn’t read smoothly, and she didn’t read much. There was no such thing in the stories she heard.
Chapter completed!