Aphrodite was also a little confused, and also confused about Hebe's life experience.
The main reason is that Hebe's priesthood and his life priesthood have something in common with the Goddess of Beauty's priesthood, and Hebe's birth method is also different from other gods, which blurred and confused Aphrodite's perception.
Maybe only after he asked about the law, he could judge whether Heber had anything to do with him.
But after careful consideration, Aphrodite felt that there was no need to ask about the rules.
First of all, Aphrodite would never admit that Hebe was his daughter, no matter whether Hebe had anything to do with him or not, and how the gods speculated about their common ground.
It doesn't matter to him himself, after all, he is a male god and has a high position and authority. But Hera will bear the stigma of infidelity because of this, even if she is innocent from beginning to end, the gods will not care about this. Zeus, who is dissatisfied with her, will definitely seize this opportunity to humiliate her continuously, and even force her to give up the position of queen.
And Heber may also bear the stigma of being an illegitimate daughter. Although, according to Hera's previous calculations, she might already be
Secondly, even if Hebe is not his daughter, he still has to treat Hebe well, after all, she is indeed Hera's daughter.
Although Hera's tender care was aimed at 'Nemesis', 'Nemesis' was originally Aphrodite.
Aphrodite maintained her indifference to Hera on the surface, but in private, if she had the opportunity, she would do her best to help her.
And after confirming these two points, it doesn't matter what Heber's life experience is like.
He didn't need to find out the truth, because his attitude would not change because of her background.
Of course, the premise of all this is that Heber is friendly to him. If her heart is for Zeus...
Aphrodite looked calm, but there was a cold light in her eyes.
He lowered his eyebrows, stood up with Cupid in his arms, and said to Artemis, "Is Hermes here?"
He frowned slightly, with a little impatience in his expression.
Artemis hesitated: "Apollo seems to have returned to the temple, but he hasn't called me yet."
Aphrodite pondered and asked: "He shouldn't have any secrets, can we just go there?"
Artemis made a decision for Apollo: "Of course!"
Artemis clasped her palms together, and the silver-white moonlight flew out from her closed palms, turning into a vertical ray of light, pouring straight into Apollo's temple.
Apollo was talking to Hermes, and Artemis' request flew in and circled around him. Apollo's eyes flashed slightly, and he stopped talking with Hermes, stood up and said lightly: " Wait for me a moment."
Hermes tilted his head, his dark blue eyes stared at him suspiciously.
Apollo ignored him, and left through another hidden side door of the temple with the beautiful harp in his arms.
When he came back, he was followed by his sister Artemis and His Highness Aphrodite, the God of Beauty who made Hermes feel uncomfortable.
Hermes raised a smile with difficulty, and secretly cursed Apollo in his heart. He thought it was no wonder that the well-behaved Apollo asked him to come to the temple for a party. He thought that Apollo wanted to express his brotherhood with him. It turned out that it was because of His Highness Aphrodite...
Hermes was very uncomfortable in his heart, but the smile on his face was perfect, and genuine joy and happiness overflowed from his eyes. His tone was high and lively, and he said enthusiastically: "Your Highness Aphrodite, what a coincidence! , you are also in the temple of His Majesty Apollo, I am so happy to see you!"
Aphrodite showed a rigid smile, but her eyes were cold: "It's not a coincidence, I was waiting for you on purpose."
Apollo tugged at his sleeve, and when Aphrodite's searching gaze swept over, he showed a bright smile and pointed to his throne.
Aphrodite stared at him for a few seconds, then sat down on his throne, while Apollo and Artemis stood by his left and right hands tacitly.
Hermes stood blankly at the bottom of the steps and looked up at the stunning god who was served by the twin gods above him. He was very beautiful, with a bright little sun above his head.
The bright light hit his cheeks, causing his long and dense eyelashes to leave a shadow under his eyes, and also made his pupils stained with a hazy layer of black mist. His expression was already cold and majestic, but this indifferent gaze gave people a terrible pressure, as if a high god was staring indifferently at the struggling ant in his hands.
If it wasn't for the immature and lively young god in his arms that softened his atmosphere, Hermes would have been almost overwhelmed by this scene.
Hermes raised his heart and suddenly felt a little scary.
Did Apollo and Artemis know what they were doing? They stood beside Aphrodite in such a surrendered posture...
They are the same main gods as Aphrodite, and they are equal in rank. Even if someone asks them to respect and reverence, that person can only be a god king!
Hermes felt blocked, he thought, if Cronus hadn’t left a curse saying that Zeus’s throne was overthrown by his son, then he almost doubted that Aphrodite would overthrow Zeus’s throne up!
Hermes lowered his head, trying not to show a flustered expression, but his voice was unconsciously filled with humility: "My lord, what is the reason you called me here?"
Aphrodite's calm and cold voice came from above, and he said, "I want the control of Mercury."
Hermes wanted to cry without tears: "Your Highness, if I give you the Mercury, your lines will appear on the Mercury. If the God King knows that I have an affair with you, he will not let me go."
Aphrodite raised an eyebrow, unable to deny it. He opened his left hand, and a scroll of parchment emerged in his palm, then slowly floated down and stopped in front of Hermes.
Hermes grabbed the scroll and couldn't help but look up at him. Aphrodite tapped her chin and said lightly, "Open it and have a look."
Hermes had no choice but to open the scroll. It was a letter of transfer of control over the Mercury Pillar, with two spaces left at the bottom.
Only when Hermes and Aphrodite sign their names on it, the handwriting will come into effect, and the control of Mercury will be transferred along the way.
Aphrodite's voice was a little gentler, and she comforted him: "You sign your name on it, and I will not sign it immediately. I will sign it when I am sure that I can do it one day. Don't worry, I won't do it. I will give up on you and let you be hated by Zeus."
Hermes couldn't help but squeezed the parchment roll tightly, making it wrinkled.
The handsome male god frowned, as if weighing and thinking.
Aphrodite was not in a hurry, and looked at him leisurely.
After a while, Hermes raised his head. He tried his best to look calm, but Aphrodite still keenly noticed the subtle stiffness of his movements.
Hermes solemnly reopened the parchment roll, and then spread it out. Aphrodite's fingers gently scratched Cupid's little wings, and Cupid moved, feeling a little strange.
He turned his neck back vigorously, and then saw Aphrodite holding a feather with two slender fingers, and threw it towards Hermes gracefully and lightly.
Cupid took a deep breath, and with difficulty wrapped his hands behind his back to cover his little wings, and flew out of Aphrodite's arms.
His eyes were watery, he sniffed, then looked at Aphrodite pitifully and accused Aphrodite: "Father God, how did you pluck my feathers!"
Hermes took the feather and found that the root of the feather was very pointed, with thin holes, and a light golden liquid flowed from the quill. He quietly raised his eyes to look at Aphrodite, and signed his name on the parchment, but Aphrodite ignored him, and he was teasing Cupid with a slight smile, and asked: " Can the feathers not be touched by God the Father?"
The little young god Cupid pouted his tender lips, and said tearfully and aggrievedly: "Without the feathers, Cupid will not be beautiful..."
Aphrodite chuckled and waved to him, Cupid looked at him hesitantly.
Aphrodite raised her eyebrows lightly, and Cupid obediently flew back into his arms.
Aphrodite's palm lightly rested on his back, and a warm force poured into Cupid's back. After a while, Cupid felt a little itchy under his wings for a few days, and he restlessly walked back and forth on Aphrodite's legs Moved, muttered: "Father God, itchy, help me scratch."
Aphrodite pressed her finger precisely on the place where Cupid felt uncomfortable, and Cupid subconsciously rubbed it twice, and then Aphrodite's finger left.
However, Apollo and Artemis saw that Cupid's pair of small wings actually grew a pair of small white wings.
Aphrodite condensed a mirror at random, and then cleverly avoided herself, showing it to Cupid. He asked with a smile, "What about this, do you like it if you have an extra pair of small wings?"
Cupid covered his mouth, looking at the strange pair of trembling little wings in the mirror, he was shocked: "!!!"
After reacting, he immediately grabbed Aphrodite's hand and kept acting coquettishly, saying sweetly: "Father God, Cupid still wants a pair of little wings~"
Aphrodite said softly, "It doesn't look good with too many wings."
Cupid slid directly from his lap to sit on his feet, holding his calf and twisting it around: "I want to, I want to do it~"
Aphrodite laughed, carried Cupid into her arms again, and then gestured with his fingers on his back. After finding the right position, he continued to work, helping Cupid grow a pair of new wings.
Cupid turned around in front of the mirror happily, and was almost fooled by his three pairs of little wings.
Aphrodite seemed to remember something, patted Cupid on the head lightly, and said to him: "If God Gaia asks you where you absorbed the power of Eros, you tell her, you used Got wings."
Cupid smiled and nodded his head, blinking wildly at Aphrodite: "I know~"
Hermes, who was ignored by Aphrodite, had already signed, and he couldn't help but interjected: "Your Highness, I have signed the contract according to your instructions. As long as you sign another blank item in the contract name, Mercury will be yours to rule... Can you hear a few words from me too?"
Aphrodite smiled and said, "I will not deprive anyone of the right to speak."
Hermes cleared his throat, raised his head, and the youthful vigor with a sense of impulsive cunning came to his face, and he talked eloquently: "I, Hermes, am the goddess of the sacred mountain of Olympus. One of the twelve main gods, but I am also subject to you and a loyal servant to you. I obey all your decisions, even if this decision will make me lose my position as the main god."
"So when you asked for Mercury, I also readily signed the contract and handed over Mercury to you."
Hermes paused as he spoke, staring at Aphrodite to observe the change in his expression.
Aphrodite's face was calm and unwavering. If Hermes hadn't been looking at Hermes all the time, Hermes would almost have thought that he didn't listen to what he was saying.
He muttered something in his heart, and continued: "I am so loyal to you, but it cannot be denied that I am a cunning and evil god, which can be seen from my priesthood."
Hermes felt that Aphrodite didn't know that he was pretending to be cunning, so he simply wiped his face and talked openly with Aphrodite.
Not to be direct, because Aphrodite is not a god to be fooled by.
If he expressed too vaguely, Aphrodite might pretend not to understand. He might as well just hit a straight ball and ask for benefits from Aphrodite. Anyway, what he wants is nothing to Aphrodite.
"Although most of the gods are on good terms with me, we also know each other well. When communicating with me, we must prevent me from setting traps, so as not to be plundered by me."
"Your Highness, you have grasped my weakness, but my nature is not glorious. Do you think that I will always let you ask for it, but never return it, so you don't feel resentful?"
Aphrodite just looked at him and said nothing, as if she was going to wait for Hermes to finish speaking before expressing her opinion.
Hermes pretended to be calm and said: "I won't, and I will also feel dissatisfied with you. Especially after transferring Mercury to you, the affair between me and you will be discovered by the God King at any time, and I will also He may be stripped of his position as the main god by the God King for offending the God King, and then be expelled from Mount Olympus."
"If that happens, I will have nothing. Although this kind of thing hasn't happened yet, I am afraid that such a thing will come. Under this kind of mental torture, I may collapse at any time, and then I can't help but have sex with the King of God..."
"Hermes." Aphrodite interrupted him lightly: "I don't think you will collapse, but it is undeniable that you have become irritable and unstable. I don't like being threatened, I I think you need to reorganize the language that follows."
Hermes froze, staring at him blankly. After a while, he took a deep breath and murmured: "Yes, I'm a little impatient, wait a moment..."
He raised his hand to cover his eyes, and said softly after a few seconds: "I want you to give me a guarantee, so that I have a way out and have scruples. Let me know that even if I am stripped of the position of the main god by the king of gods and expelled from the mountain In the end, I also have a place to go, and I can continue to have strength and status under your protection. In this way, even if the future may not be as good as the present, I still have concerns, dare not betray you, and will always be subject to you... "
The arc of Aphrodite's lips gradually widened, and he said softly: "You are so pitiful, and I will fulfill your wish. It's not because I want to control your weakness forever, but because I want to give You have a place to go, so that your heart will not be disturbed by the future."
Hermes pursed his lips, but he was a little unconvinced in his heart. Was Aphrodite fooling him into thinking of those mindless gods? What do you say to pity me, in fact, it is because I show weakness in front of you...
Hermes' face showed a moved expression at the right time. He covered his mouth and whimpered 'moved': "Your Highness, your heart is as beautiful as your appearance..." It is also as cold as your expression. Hard, smelly rock.
Aphrodite looked at him with a half-smile, and Hermes lowered his head a little guilty, always feeling as if Aphrodite knew what he was thinking. But this should be impossible, Aphrodite can't read minds...
Thinking of this, Hermes calmed down again.
Aphrodite didn't care what he thought in his heart, and it was already his victory to make a proud god subdue in face.
Aphrodite took out another parchment roll, quickly wrote another paragraph of text on it, and then signed her name at the end, and handed the parchment roll to Hermes.
Only then did Hermes realize that he hadn't given the transfer letter of Mercury control to Aphrodite yet, so he hurriedly let go of the transfer letter, let the transfer letter fly out, and handed it to Aphrodite.
He also got the letter of appointment written by Aphrodite, and Aphrodite said lightly: "You should know that I am the king of the underworld, right? This is an official document written by me, and I will You are appointed and dismissed for the gods of the underworld. As long as you sign on it, you can go to the underworld to ask Hades for an errand at any time. If you are valued by Hades, he will give you a very important and powerful godhead It's not impossible to get a job. But these are your own affairs, and you should work hard on your own, so I won't ask more questions."
Hermes happily put away the parchment roll and asked, "Your Highness, if I have nowhere to go in the future, can I become the god of the underworld?"
Aphrodite sneered: "The Hades is not a good place. In addition, you can take it to the Hades anytime after you don't need it, as long as you have a way to explain the origin of your position to Zeus. My respect for you My heartfelt advice... If you want to have more divine power and make friends with the god of the underworld, there is no harm in joining the job early. After all, I never intend to lose your position as the main god."
Aphrodite glanced at him lightly, crossed her hands and fingers gracefully across her belly, and smiled: "You are very well-behaved, and I also appreciate your cleverness in coaxing Zeus with sweet words."
Hermes rolled his eyes and smiled.
After thinking for a while, he looked at Apollo again, pondered for a few seconds and said, "Speaking of which, Your Highness, do you know that Queen Hera just gave birth to a goddess?"
Aphrodite frowned: "Huh?"
Hermes said: "When Brother Apollo came to me, I was serving the God King. He was a little surprised when my relationship with Brother Apollo was so good, so he stayed with us for a long time. Until Queen Hera was born A goddess, he left in a hurry so that my brother and I could come to his temple to see you."
Aphrodite didn't seem to care about the affairs of Hera and her goddess, and she just said indifferently after hearing the words: "No wonder I waited for you for so long."
Hermes scratched his head, showing some tangled expression, and looked at Apollo again.
Artemis said impatiently: "Hermes, do you and Apollo have something to hide?"
Aphrodite's eyes darkened a little, and Cupid lay on Aphrodite's lap, staring at the two of them with a gaze like catching a thief.
Apollo had no choice but to say: "It's not that I intend to hide it from you, but this matter is a bit ridiculous..."
He said: "Because Queen Hera became pregnant after leaving you. Although Queen Hera swore to the law that she was not unfaithful, many gods always felt in their hearts that Queen Hera might protect you. But you took advantage of her sleeping and did some disrespectful actions... "
Aphrodite's face sank like water, Apollo subconsciously plucked the strings, and let out his subtle emotions through the sound of the piano, while his voice gradually calmed down, he said: "Of course, this is just some idle time before. It’s nothing but a guess of the gods. But what’s a little troublesome is that the priesthood of this newborn goddess seems to have nothing to do with you, but there are some subtle overlaps.”
"For example, youth seems to have nothing to do with life, but if the goddess of youth wants to give someone eternal youth, she must also give someone a strong life. After all, if the inside is rotten, the outside can't be glamorous."
"And beauty, although your definition of beauty is very broad, but in the eyes of the gods, everyone only cares about the beauty on the outside.
A youthful person does not necessarily have a beautiful appearance, but a beautiful person must have eternal youth and flawless skin. In everyone's eyes, youth and beauty go hand in hand... "
Aphrodite hummed and asked, "So, some people think Hebe is my illegitimate daughter, right?"
Artemis looked at Apollo anxiously, Hermes lowered his head and stared at his toes, Apollo thought for a while, and then said: "I don't think she is, even if she is, it must be an accident, You are not the kind of despicable god who would plot against a frivolous goddess."
Aphrodite showed a smile, and he said lightly: "It's a pity that not everyone believes in me like you do. They judge others by themselves, coupled with various coincidences, it is estimated that He Bo is my illegitimate daughter."
Cupid squeezed the corner of Aphrodite's clothes, his small face was wrinkled, and he asked worriedly, "Father God, do I have a younger sister?"
Aphrodite bent down, pinched his face, and sighed softly: "You look like a little guy, even if you have a younger sister, you still have to call your sister older sister, otherwise it looks so strange."
Cupid's eyes widened all of a sudden, and he opened his mouth exaggeratedly to look at him.
Apollo gave Aphrodite an idea: "Your Highness, when Hera was suspected of being unfaithful by the god king when she was pregnant, she swore an oath to the law to prove herself, and you can do the same."
Aphrodite shook her head with a smile, and said easily: "I didn't do it in the first place, why should I prove myself for other people's doubts? Hera had to give in because the position of Queen of God was controlled by Zeus. And I... heh , does anyone deserve my explanation?"
The three gods were dumb, thinking about it, it seems to be the same, not to mention that Aphrodite didn't do this kind of thing, even if he did, with his strength and status, what could Zeus do to him
Since this matter did not cause any harm to him, why did he rush to explain it and let others see it as a joke
Aphrodite pondered: "Well, it's actually better to leave this kind of romantic anecdote to Zeus, who is more skilled."
Apollo and Artemis looked at each other with a blank look on their faces.
Aphrodite asked: "Do you think Zeus would care about the statement that his wife had an affair with others, and then be dissatisfied with it, and block the rumors?"
Artemis murmured: "Don't worry about it, otherwise he must have blocked it directly before."
"Too."
Aphrodite rolled her eyes, thinking of Poseidon who had nothing to do after coming to Shenshan, she said thoughtfully: "Then add a premise. There will be things like this.”
Aphrodite smiled with crooked eyebrows, a stern gleam flashed in her eyes.
If Zeus was all right, he probably wouldn't care about the rumor either. But one of his eggs was really knocked out by Eurynomo...
Furious and guilty, he would probably explode.
The sooner the better, Zeus will want to prove more than anyone else that Hera is not dissatisfied with him in any way, nor has he cheated because of this and conceived the daughter of another god.
Hebe, even if he gritted his teeth and swallowed blood, he had to recognize her.