[Greek mythology] The fountain of youth

Chapter 25 Heber's Escape

He was limping and carrying a basket of apples, and ran fast. Hearing Heber say that he pretended to be lame and pretended to have the wrong leg, he quickly changed from pretending to be lame to his left leg without any haste. The speed was so fast. People are jaw-dropping, and his health makes people want to kick him. He deserves to be the cunning Hermes.

Hebe sent away the cunning Hermes, and the Temple of Youth ushered in a second guest, the priests beside the god king Zeus. The priests read Zeus' will with a blank face, "Good day, youth Her Majesty, the God King invites you to the banquet hall..."

Those who come are not good, and those who are good don't.

In this way, Hebe was invited to the banquet hall by the group of priests. In fact, Olympus held a banquet today, but Zeus was in a bad mood recently because Hera refused to return to Olympus.

And Hebe is the daughter of Hera. Although she still looks like a girl, she can't help but she is the one who looks the most like Hera among the children born to the queen Hera, so she doesn't want to get too close to Zeus and remind Zeus of Hera. pulled.

During these days when Zeus appeared, Heber tried his best not to be there, so as not to make him take his anger out on him. Heber deliberately did not attend the banquet, but ended up hiding, and Zeus took the initiative to send someone to look for him!

Hebe had no choice but to follow the priests to the banquet hall. Originally, the Olympus banquet hall was the place where laughter was heard the most, but the god king put on a dirty face on the golden throne. Who would dare to have fun? .

In a scene full of depression, Zeus saw her coming, and directly threw the wine glass in his hand at Hebe, but the wine glass did not hit him, but the dark red wine in the glass splashed Hebe's dress, turning the white His clothes were stained with deep red wine stains of forbearance and depravity.

Heber was taken aback by the drink splashed on her face, but fortunately she was already mentally prepared when she came, she wiped a little of the drink off her face, and continued to salute calmly, "I am omnipotent Father, what did I do to offend you?"

"What's the matter? Your duty! Where have you been!" He slammed his hand on the table, scolding Hebe, "As the cupbearer of the gods, you didn't attend the banquet privately, and you didn't serve the gods. Serve! Is your mother pampering you too much? Or are you negligent!"

After a series of accusations, it seems that the god king should have wanted to send Hebe a long time ago. To be honest, the words of the god king Zeus are very hurtful, and in public, he belittled Hebe to nothing.

Hebe lowered his head, and the girl's petite body half-kneeled on the ground, with water in her eyes. All the gods looked at this young girl with some distress. After all, people have a kind of sympathy for young people, and gods are no exception.

Although Hebe has already grown up, Hebe's image of a young girl is too deceptive. Anyone who reads it will feel that the king of God is bullying a little girl whose mother is not around.

At least the goddesses at the banquet were sympathetic to this child. They felt that Zeus was too harsh on a child, and some powerful goddesses did not shy away from the expressions on their faces.

The goddess of justice, Themis, as a goddess of justice, really couldn't look down on Zeus's behavior. She turned around and left the banquet with the scales she never left her body. Some goddesses even rolled their eyes at Zeus directly.

The scolding was almost over, Zeus looked at the half-kneeling Hebe underneath, and maybe he couldn't bear to punish his young daughter, or maybe he felt that Hera was not in Olympus, so it was not good for him to bully her child too much, after all, Hebe La is always defending his shortcomings, so Heber went back to reflect.

When Hebe went back, the accompanying attendant Nymphs did not dare to comfort Hebe, for fear of hurting the heart of His Highness, Nymph, the youngest of the three Nymphs, opened her big watery eyes and looked at him with worry and concern. Hebe, who seemed to be the youngest sister, grabbed the older sister who was walking in front of her.

She looked at Hebe, and said to her sister in a low voice, "Sister Nuosi, shouldn't the god king be noble and loving? Hey, Your Highness Hebe is so pitiful." She is a nymph growing in the mountains and forests. Not long after I came to Olympus, I was so innocent.

"Hush! Be quiet, how can you talk about the king of gods!" She pinched her naive little sister, "This is Olympus! It's not in the mountains and forests, don't talk nonsense." She looked at He Cypress figure.

"However, Your Highness Hebe..." Before the nymph could finish speaking, she was interrupted by the oldest waiter among the three. The oldest nymph turned around and gave them a hard look. Sister Fu suddenly became silent like a saw-mouthed gourd.

The older nymph looked at Hebe with apology and pity, but in fact all three nymphs sympathized with Hebe.

In fact, Zeus scolded Heber in front of everyone, saying that she had neglected her duties and failed to do her duty as a sommelier, etc. Although she was scolded badly, Heber was not as fragile as everyone thought.

She had already been mentally prepared. It wasn't the first day she knew about Zeus' cold-blooded and ruthless nature. This time, the punishment was that the mother goddess Hera left Olympus, and Zeus was just venting her anger. Just listen to what he said, She didn't take it seriously.

As for the work of the sommelier, she has always done this before. Zeus was not picky before. Take this opportunity to see if I can stop doing this job.

She was not so sad, but the mother god was right, she should leave Olympus and go out as she pleases, lest Zeus think of herself again that day and play a small game of finding fault with herself.

Although Zeus punished her for thinking about her faults, she did not prohibit her activities, and the Greek gods were free by nature, so Hebe was happy to go to the next session, and did not forget to have some fun for Zeus before the next session.

She seriously suspected that Zeus liked to play the small game of finding faults so much now because he was too free, and she had to find something for Zeus to do so that he would not be so idle.

After returning to the temple, Hebe put Pandora down together. Now Pandora has become a god and is in charge of bad luck. However, Pandora is not a high level now, she is a third-class god, and she cannot control the passive skills of her priesthood.

If she can't control bad luck well, she won't be unlucky if she is in charge of bad luck, but the people around Pandora will start to have bad luck because of Pandora's passivity. Heber now seriously suspects that it is because Pandora is in the Temple of Youth that she is so unlucky now.

Because Pandora has suffered a lot from the human race before, she is mentally abnormal, and often goes crazy and hurts people from time to time. Simply put, she is not in a good mind. Let her out, it is not safe for others.

Moreover, Pandora was slowly forming a godhead and becoming a god at that time. She was so lucky to be able to become a god, but before she became a god, she would face endless dangers.

The unformed godhead is as tempting as a gluttonous meal. How many descendants of powerful gods have no godhead, and how many demigods born of gods and humans have no godhead.

Stealing the godhead of other gods is a risky thing, let alone whether the robbed person has a background, whether they can fight or not, robbing other people's godhead will face backlash.

But the godhead that has not yet formed or is being formed is different. Without backlash, it is like your own godhead. As long as Pandora goes out alone, it is difficult to guarantee what parents who love their children will do to make ordinary nymphs or mountain elves sons and daughters become gods.

There are also those who want to control fate, bad luck is a branch of fate, the priesthood of fate is so tempting.

If Heber released the ignorant Pandora before, she would be swallowed by the gods who coveted her abilities, but now it is different. Under the protection of Heber, Pandora has become a god, and now she will face backlash if she seizes Pandora's godhead .

No one does things that are thankless, Pandora's safety is greatly guaranteed, and Zeus needs this kind of destiny, and finally Pandora's home is also resolved.

Moreover, Heber also specially asked Hephaestus to repair Pandora's brain. Although she became a god, she is Hephaestus' creation after all, and some places can be repaired. Bad, but Pandora is also much better now than it was before.

So Hebo An relieved Pandora to go out and make trouble, (Pandora's trouble is bad luck, she will bring bad luck to those around her) The beautiful Nymph Fairy hidden in the Temple of Youth is being guarded by Hydra The temple, in case someone takes advantage of her absence, to make a fuss about her beautiful sister in the temple.

After taking off the wine-stained clothes and putting on clean clothes, Hebe happily ran away. Hebe who left Olympus was like a happy bird, and she was very excited.

The world has changed tremendously, completely different from what Hebe saw last time. Human beings have more buildings, and the houses and temples are beautifully built.

Under the bonfire, young boys and girls, this group of young and lively people laughed and made noises. Heber was also attracted by this atmosphere. The bold human teenager took Heber's hand and invited her to join the team.

The girl also came over and took Heber's hand, and they danced together. This was different from the dances I saw in Olympus before. It was different from the impeccable dance of the Muse. It had no beauty or anything The difficulty is to sway with the sound of the drum.

But Hebe felt the exuberant vitality of life, they danced together, the teenagers took out the barbecue from the bonfire, poured out the wine in the bottle, and invited Hebe to share.

The barbecue is baked in the fire to form a layer of crispy skin, which looks oily. When you bite it down, the outside is crispy, and the inside is juicy and tender. It is also marinated with a special juice and sprinkled with With salt, it is different from the food produced by Zeus' Horn of Plenty, and has a unique smell of fireworks.

Seeing that she liked the barbecue, one of the round-faced girls cut off another big piece for Heber.

Heber also tasted the wines of the teenagers, which were astringent and sour, the wines of Olympus were mellow, and the wines of the world were very fresh and special.