[Comprehensive] On the Unity of the Goddess and the Cook

Hestia took Dionysus and left the city where they competed, but she didn't intend to just take Dionysus back to her temple.In her opinion, the current Dionysus has no qualifications to become a god at all, not even an ordinary servant of the gods.Because he lacks a loving heart.

So Hestia planned to take Dionysus on a journey to find his heart.

Hestia got a horse, she rode on it, and let Dionysus lead the horse on the ground.

Along the way, she asked Dionysus to stop from time to time, and then followed her instructions to collect some ingredients that could be made into food.These things were cumbersome, and Dionysus soon grew impatient.But Hestia mentioned their bet to him as soon as he saw his impatience.

Willing to admit defeat, Dionysus can only follow Hestia's order honestly.But in his heart, he never wanted to defeat Hestia again and be free.Although he felt that with force, he would definitely be able to defeat this woman, but his self-esteem made him have to defeat her again through a competition.

On this day, the two of them came to a city, and they found a notice posted at the gate of the city, and many people whispered there.

Out of curiosity, Hestia brought Dionysus to join him.

It turned out that this was a notice from the city lord looking for a chef.The city lord's mother was dying of illness, but before she died, she wanted to eat a dish that she ate when she was young. The city lord was a dutiful son, and for his mother's dying wish, he recruited all the cooks in the city.However, none of what these chefs did was to the lord's mother's liking, so the lord could only post notices to find the chef.As his mother's physical condition became worse and worse, the bounty mentioned in the notice became higher and higher, but even so, so far no one has been able to make food that meets the requirements of the city lord's mother.

After reading the notice, Hestia reached out to reveal the notice.

Together with Dionysus, she was taken by the guards of the city gate to the mansion of the lord of the city.Because it involved the mother's dying wishes, the city lord personally received them.

"Are you the chefs who unveiled the list this time?" The city lord looked at the two of Hestia.Hestia now looks like an extremely ordinary middle-aged woman, and although Dionysus is standing in a subordinate position, he looks rebellious and doesn't look like a servant.In short, because he has been disappointed many times, he didn't feel much expectation this time.

"Yes, Lord City Lord."

"Are you sure? My mother's time is running out."

"Please let us have a try, my lord." Hestia wanted to fulfill the wish of a dying old man.

"Okay, let's give it a try." The city lord could only miss any chance to fulfill his mother's wish. "What my mother wanted was not a dish, but a kind of bread. That was what my mother ate when she was young. At that time, she and my grandmother lived together, and life was very difficult."

"That year, there was a famine in the place where they lived, and all the food was eaten up, even the bark and grass roots were almost eaten up. There were only her and my grandmother in the mother's house, and the mother was too young to work. What kind of work, I can only rely on my grandmother to find food everywhere."

"Then one day, my grandmother came back after going out for a long time. She brought back some wine for her mother who had been starving for several days, and then used the wine as an ingredient to make a kind of black bread. With those wine bread, my mother I survived that famine. Now that my mother is coming to the end of her life, she misses the bread she ate so much. This is her last wish, and I will satisfy her no matter what."

Hestia quietly listened to the lord's narration, but Dionysus directly agreed.

"Don't worry, I will definitely be able to fulfill your mother's wish." Dionysus promised with a little arrogance.If it wasn't when Hestia ordered him to work, he wouldn't have the consciousness of being a slave at all, and Hestia didn't seem to care about him.

"You?" The city lord looked at him suspiciously.In his opinion, Dionysus is Hestia's follower. What can a follower do?

"Yes, it's me. I can make the best wine in the world, and the bread made with this wine must be delicious. Please rest assured." Dionysus heard that the food was mixed with wine Taste knew it in his heart. He was very confident in his wine. Although he lost to Hestia in the competition, he always thought that his wine was better than Hestia's dishes, but he was unlucky Met two strangers.

"Okay, I can let you try." The city lord is now a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and he will try as long as it can satisfy his mother's wish.

The two of Hestia left from the city lord, who gave them the freedom to come and go to the city lord's mansion. With the power of the entire city, they can go wherever they want.

"This time, let's count it as a competition. Let's see whether my wine is better or your bread." Although the mayor finally asked for bread, Dionysus felt that the wine he made could completely grab the bread. limelight.

"Okay, you are responsible for the wine part. If you win, you will be free." Hestia didn't care much, and she was still remembering what the city lord said just now.

With these words from Hestia, Dionysus was full of energy. He walked around the market, tasting the various grapes sold in the market one by one, and then went to the grape planting area. manor.He finally found a grape that tasted the best and was perfect for wine.

Because the wine needs to be fermented to be ready, it is obvious that the city lord's mother may not be able to wait for such a long time.Dionysus then used his divine power to prompt the wine to complete the fermentation process as soon as possible.

He has the memory of being the son of Persephone and Zeus, and he also deeply remembers the pain of losing his body and only his heart.After being born again as the son of Zeus and Semele, he deeply felt the status gap from the son of God to the illegitimate son of a demigod.Under this gap, his heart became more and more distorted, and he also had the desire to destroy everything.

Because whether he is a son of god or a demigod, he has the blood of Zeus in his body, so he also has a certain amount of divine power.Although his divine power can't keep up with those real gods, it is already very powerful compared to other demigods.And Dionysus used this divine power to speed up the process of fermenting wine.

When Dionysus was brewing wine, Hestia just watched calmly and didn't say anything even though he saw him using divine power to speed up the fermentation process.

Soon Dionysus's wine was ready. Because of his divine power, it only took him half a day to make the wine.Then he proudly sent the wine to Hestia, and now it was her turn to show off her skills.

Hestia quickly made bread out of the wine, opting for a whole-wheat bread with a measure of bran in it.

"Shouldn't the bran be removed?" Dionysus looked at her suspiciously. All the bread he had eaten was made of fine flour.How can the bread made of such thick flour that has not even removed the bran be eaten.

"Try it and you'll know."

The two went to the City Lord's Mansion with the finished product.When they gave the bread to the lord of the city, the lord of the city immediately sent it to his mother to taste. It took a long time for him to appear in front of Hestia and the two of them again.

This time the city lord's complexion was much better than when he saw them before.Looking at his expression, Dionysus guessed that the bread they made was a success, and he puffed out his chest proudly.He waited to hear the castellan's praise of them, of his wine.

"I would like to thank you two. My mother said that the bread you made is very similar to the bread she ate when she was a child, but it is not the same taste. I would like to ask you to continue to work hard, maybe you can find the taste my mother wants Come on. My mother's condition is already very bad, so please hurry up, both of you."

Hestia seemed to have anticipated this situation, and she calmly agreed to the request of the city lord.But Dionysus was a little unbelievable. He had chosen the best grapes and used the best means, but the wine he produced did not meet the requirements of the mayor's mother.He almost wanted to rush in and ask the woman who was about to die directly.What kind of good wine did a little girl from a poor family drink?

"Let's go, we have to hurry up, she doesn't have much time."

"But...but what should we do?" Dionysus had to admit that since he lost to Hestia in the competition, his self-confidence had almost been hit.

"Of course it's about finding the best wine."

"But I don't think anyone in this world can make wine better than me. My wine is the best even if it gets to Mount Olympus."

"Indeed." Regarding this point, Hestia admitted that Dionysus's brewing technology was indeed the best she had ever seen, and no one even among the Protoss could match it.

Dionysus bit his lip and stopped talking, taking Hestia's words as a mockery of him.

The two stopped talking along the way.Dionysus just stared at Hestia from a distance with his eyes wide open.He saw Hestia wandering around the slums, looking for elderly people to chat with.

Then he saw Hestia come out of the city and into the country.She continued to chat with those old people, and then besides the old people, she started to chat with those naughty children.

Seeing Hestia chatting cordially with everyone, Dionysus felt a little jealous.He had never been this attractive since he was a child.

"Okay, let's go."

"Where?"

"Go get the wine."

Mention the wine that Dionysus was good at, and his interest came immediately.He wanted to see who could make better wine than Dionysus himself.

The two were still walking in tandem, with Hestia in front and Dionysus following in a leisurely manner.They walked slowly into the valley.

"This winemaker lives in seclusion in the mountains?" Dionysus didn't believe that an excellent winemaker would be willing to remain unknown. Didn't he just wander among human beings by virtue of his winemaking skills?

"Yeah, right here."

Hestia was still walking forward, and they went further and further into the mountains, and the road became more and more rugged.

"Is he really here?"

"Yes, if those old people and children are right, it is here."

There was no way for anyone to walk in front of them, they could only move forward slowly by dragging the vines.Because Dionysus is a demigod, he has a strong physique and can persist in walking in such difficult places.He felt a little admiration for Hestia, who was also not blushing or out of breath, that a woman could do what she did.

After sliding down a vine, Hestia finally stopped.

"We have arrived."

Dionysus looked around, and they had just slipped down and came to a small valley.This valley is full of wild grapes, because the valley is located in a remote place, no one came to pick them, the ripe fruits fell to the ground, accumulated several thick layers, and went through natural fermentation directly, the whole valley was full of wine the taste of.

Dionysus picked a bunch of grapes and tasted them suspiciously.He just spit it out after taking two bites.Then he changed another vine and picked a bunch of grapes, but he spit it out again right away.He changed another vine again, and the result was the same.

"The grapes here can't make good wine at all," he looked at Hestia. "Because of the geographical location, the vines here are not well lit, so the taste of the grapes is very astringent, which is not a good material for making wine." Although he was happy to see Hestia making a fool of himself, but thinking that he was a grasshopper on the same vine as Hestia, he could only persuade Hestia to give up his idea of ​​using the grapes here to make wine.

"Don't worry, this is what we are looking for." Hestia was very confident.

"How can you rest assured that the grapes here are sour and astringent, and the wine produced can only be the worst kind." Dionysus almost shouted at Hestia, trying to suppress himself temper. "If you believe me, I can go elsewhere and get the best grapes. I used to travel around and know where the best grapes are. The wine made from those grapes is the best wine. .”

"Try this first." Hestia did not back down.

Dionysus, who was extremely angry, simply said nothing. He quietly watched Hestia collect the fermented grapes from the ground and took them away, and then quietly followed her back to the city. Quietly watching Hestia prepare the flour again, and squeeze the juice from the fermented grapes to add to the bread.

While Hestia was not paying attention, he tasted a piece of finished bread.Even though he admitted that Hestia's craftsmanship is indeed good, but the material is too poor, which does affect the taste.Dionysus felt that Hestia's good workmanship was completely compromised by these inferior materials.

I'll just wait and see how ugly you are as a woman.Dionysus stopped persuading Hestia, and just silently watched Hestia deliver the baked bread to the city lord.

This time the city lord made them wait for a long time, and then they waited for the city lord with red and swollen eyes. "Thank you for fulfilling my mother's last wish. Mother died smiling after eating your bread. Thank you so much."

In fact, Hestia had already seen Thanatos enter the City Lord's Mansion, and Thanatos nodded at her when he passed by her.She already knew that the mother of the city lord had passed away, and she already knew it in her heart.

"My condolences." Hestia declined the castellan's thank you gift, and left the castellan's mansion with Dionysus.

The author has something to say: It seems that I wrote a somewhat sad story during the Chinese New Year. The so-called material that can make the best food is actually a heart.

Tomorrow there will be the last chapter of this volume, and there will be an extra episode of Poseidon.Let’s start with Hera’s episode today, she is also my favorite goddess among Xishen.I wrote the extra text as long as the main text, so it was better to add it.

In addition, the eighth day of the lunar new year is the last day to give out red envelopes, so don't forget to collect them.

————— Hera’s story ———————

"Your Majesty the God Queen, the God King has gone to the world to observe the world." Hera heard the servant of the God King Temple report to her tremblingly.

Hmph, understand the world?I'm afraid it's to show consideration for the beauties.Hera clenched her fists tightly, exuding an aura that belonged to the Queen of God.

The servant of God was as frightened as a leaf falling in the wind because of her momentum.

"Your Majesty." Alice behind Hera reminded her worriedly.

"I see." I don't know whether to tell the servant of the gods, or to let Alice not worry about her, Hera dropped this sentence and returned with a pile of gods and servants behind him. own temple.

As soon as she got back to the temple, Hera dismissed everyone and planned to have a quiet time by herself.Those as loyal as Elise went down with worry, and there were also gossips who winked and planned to find a place to go to the God of Gossip after retreating, but were snubbed by the King of Gossip.

Hera sat on the edge of the bed, stroking the delicate patterns on the bed.How long has she been sleeping alone on this bed.

She couldn't help laughing at herself, at the beginning she tried her best to become the God Empress, but she didn't expect that it would be such a life in the end.Demeter didn't know how to laugh at her behind her back, especially after she shamelessly slept in Zeus' bed.

Demeter may think this is the retribution of her greedy vanity, but how does she know that she really loves Zeus.

like?Hera smiled wryly.She fell in love with Zeus the first time she saw him.At that time, Zeus rescued them from the belly of God the Father like a hero in her mind.At that time she fell in love with Zeus.Later, in order to gain more favor from Zeus, she even worked hard to learn cooking skills from sister Hestia.

Sister Hestia?How long has it been since she called her that.Hera's eye circles were a little red. Ever since she framed sister Hestia who was sincerely good to her in order to marry Zeus, she didn't dare to call her that way anymore. People call.

Hera felt that since she framed Hestia, her soul was no longer pure.Even now she can understand that she was deceived by Metis and Demeter.But a mistake is a mistake.Knowing she was being deceived, she kept silent when Demeter spread rumors while Metis was pregnant.

It can be said that Demeter's rumors had a good grasp of Zeus's heart, and Metis was finally swallowed by Zeus.

The back seat was vacant, and when Zeus's wife was vacant again, Hera knew that her heart was once again excited.She loves Zeus and doesn't want Zeus to marry another woman.Hestia will not stop her anymore, and now her strongest enemy is Demeter.

Hera knew that Demeter was better than her in playing tricks, but she couldn't give up on Zeus, so she could only fight hard.She wins over Rhea, the mother goddess who left Mount Olympus angrily because Zeus married Metis. She doesn't need to do anything, just tell Rhea inadvertently how Hestia's virgin goddess came from. , what kind of relationship with Demeter will be fine.

Sure enough, Rhea was furious, and she even asked Gaia for help, and she must prevent Demeter from becoming the Queen of God.

With the help of the previous two generations of queens, Hera finally became the new queen as she wished.Excitedly, she stood in her own Temple of the Queen of God, waiting for Zeus and her husband.

But what she waited for was a Zeus who looked at her with clear eyes. At that moment, she knew that Zeus knew everything she had done.Now he looks at himself the same way he looks at the goddesses who surround him and pay attention.

With just one glance, Hera knew that her married life might not be as happy as she imagined. Even if she had the title of protector of marriage, she couldn't even protect her own marriage.

Soon after getting married, Zeus became infatuated with many goddesses, such as Leto, Maia, and finally Demeter.At the beginning, Hera was a jealous wife, as long as she heard the slightest sign of Zeus, she would chase after him.She hunted and killed Maia, who was in labor, and almost prevented Artemis and Apollo from being born, and also hunted and killed other goddesses, but what happened?She hunts down Leto, and Zeus can go and have fun with Maia.She hunts down Maia, and he'll go to Demeter's bed.There is never a shortage of women by Zeus's side, and she, Hera, can't kill them all.

Your Majesty the God Queen, as long as you give birth to an heir for the God King, the God King will change his mind.The gods around Hera persuaded her like this.

child?Hera imagined a child belonging to her and Zeus, a child with golden hair, blue eyes, handsome and brave.She was moved.

Sure enough, she became pregnant soon, and she took good care of her body, hoping to give birth to a healthy child.But when she was in labor, she was disappointed.It was a child who was completely different from what she had imagined, and ugly was the only word to describe him.

God!Hera couldn't help covering her face and weeping.What should she do?This ugly child doesn't look like her and Zeus's child at all. She can almost be expected to be attacked by the goddesses from Demeter who have always coveted her position as the queen of the gods. There have been rumors that the Empress Steals People.At that time, she and her child will not be able to survive. No matter whether Zeus believes the rumor or not, he will not tolerate himself having an ugly child.

The child had to be sent away, and Hera had come to that conclusion at once.But where to send it?As the queen of gods, she has a bad relationship with many goddesses, and she is not at ease with those male gods, even if she is sent to the mother god Rhea, she is also not at ease.

Hestia!The name flashed across Hera's mind for a moment.Only her sister Hestia would accept this child without any grievances. She could even accept Metis' daughter Athena, so why wouldn't she help her.

Standing high on Mount Olympus, Hera watched Hestia leave with the child in her arms, without even naming the child.She knew that if she named that child, there would be a bond between them, and she would be reluctant to part with that child.She had made the best choice for him now, and he would be happy growing up next to Hestia.

Sure enough, just as Hera expected, the child grew up to become the god of craftsmen, the god of fire, and became one of the twelve main gods.At that moment, Hera was extremely grateful to Hestia, and she swore in her heart that whether it was to make up for her previous mistakes or to thank her, she would always stand by Hestia's side in the future.She will help Hestia whenever she needs it.

But Hestia didn't give her this chance either, she disappeared!Disappeared from this world without leaving a trace!

Hera didn't witness that situation, she heard it from God.It is said that Neptune, Pluto, and Athena almost turned the whole earth upside down, but they still haven't found the person they want.

"His Majesty the Sea Emperor is almost insane. You can no longer see that dazzling smile on his face. The same is true for His Majesty Pluto. He has lost his queen and sister successively. The current Pluto is so terrifying that people dare not approach him." And Goddess Athena, His Royal Highness Ares just said a word that day, and she gave it to her..." Hera did not go on from God, after all, Ares is Hera's most beloved son, and she is her hope .

It was rare that Hera didn't care about Ares. She also paid attention to Hestia's disappearance, and she was also worried about her sister in her heart.Although Hestia usually looks very gentle, even a little heartless, but she has unparalleled strength.Hera still clearly remembered how Hestia beat their godfather into a pig's head with a kitchen knife in one hand and a frying pan in the other. How could something happen to such a fierce sister Hestia?

"Will it be a mess on the ground?" Hera said with a sigh.

Sure enough, not long after, news came that Athena declared war on both the Emperor of the Sea and the King of Pluto at the same time, and the so-called Holy War broke out.

Hera was silent, and she found that Zeus was also very silent about this matter, and even acquiesced in the start of the holy war.

Perhaps he was also looking forward to finding sister Hestia.Hera thought a little sadly, in fact, she had always had an idea, if Hestia was sitting in the position of God Queen, what would happen now?

It's a pity that all of this can only be a hypothesis. She clearly knows that even if Zeus wants to marry Hestia, his other two brothers may not agree, and Hestia doesn't know where he is.

No matter what, Hera always firmly believed that Hestia must be alive, and she must be well and happily alive somewhere.

Sister Hestia, I will always pray for you and look forward to the day you return.Hera made her wish to the stars in the sky.