spartan ancestor

The honest Forge God was thrilled.

Usually, many people came for Aphrodite, but almost none came for him.

For a few seconds, he even considered whether he should pour some tea for the two to show his hospitality, but his enthusiasm for casting made him dismiss this idea in the next second, and turned to impatiently Walking to the door on crutches, he turned back and urged the two of them: "Come on, let me show you my workshop."

"Wait," Yacintos stretched out his hand calmly, stuffed the soup bowl on the table into Aka's arms, and picked up the bread basket by himself, acting calmly as if they really came to the God of Vulcan for advice, not the God of Beauty The one who came here to do something wrong said, "We haven't had breakfast yet, don't you suggest we bring bread into the workshop?"

Hephaestus was stunned for a moment, his eyes fell on the steaming soup, and he felt relieved immediately: Look!The soup looked like it had just been served and hadn't been touched. Obviously, before I kicked the door, the two of them were preparing to have breakfast.

The honest Vulcan even showed a shy and friendly smile in embarrassment: "Sorry, did I interrupt your breakfast just now? Just bring it into the workshop, I actually often eat in the workshop."

Aphrodite strikes while the iron is hot: "Should I also prepare a room for them to rest? There are still one or two vacant rooms in the side hall, I can—"

"No, you can step into the palace of casting, how can you rest?" Yacintos's eyes were so sincere that he almost brought tears to the eyes of Vulcan, "I really can't hold on, Aka and I can just stay in the workshop Sleep on the ground."

"Okay! You...I," Hephaestus was incoherently happy for a moment, turned around to lead the way, and his steps were bigger than usual, "I also have a floor shop in the workshop, and I can make one for you two later... Oh, don't worry , I will remember to draw the curtain for you."

Hephaestus walked fast, Yacintos seemingly casually took Aka's hand, took a step with his long legs, and walked faster than Hephaestus.

Vulcan was still thinking about expressing his little joy in his heart, suddenly the friends around him surpassed him: "?"

Is this okay?Hephaestus quickly shut his mouth, leaning on his cane to speed up again.

"..." Aphrodite still had a virtuous smile on her face, staring at the three men walking away at a speed of racing, "??"

What the hell?Aphrodite stared in disbelief for a while, until the figures of the three men completely disappeared from sight, and then withdrew her gaze in disbelief and reluctance.

not calm.

Think about it carefully, those two human beings don't seem like people who can cast iron at all. Just looking at their temperament, you can tell that they are the kind of superiors who are served by others.

This must be just a trick for them to soften Hephaestus' defenses. How could it be possible to stay in the workshop and never come out?

Aphrodite's heart was relieved immediately, and she nodded deeply.

…………

The workshop of Hephaestus is not big. Several furnaces have been burned out, and thick black smoke is emitting from the outside. In the slag are some silver metal particles whose shape is difficult to determine.

Yacintos couldn't tell whether it was silver or iron, but it didn't affect him to talk to Vulcan calmly: "You have the conditions to build a closed workshop, let the furnace mouth lead to the outside of the workshop roof, It’s great to be able to get the toxic fumes out of the house without having to suffer too much yourself, which a lot of miners don’t have.”

"..." A-Ka rolled his eyelashes at the side, and glanced at someone who was making a fuss.

If I remember correctly, the last time the other party took over casting was when he visited Sparta's silver mine as a king.

This person is just talking about his travel experiences that are not worth mentioning to fool honest people, and he also acts like he is experienced and quite emotional.

Honest Vulcan was fooled quite cooperatively, and nodded in agreement: "After all, miners are just the lowest-level coolies. Who cares if their working conditions are bad?"

He rummaged through his messy tools, picked up something oddly shaped, and opened his mouth as if asking for advice.

Before Hephaestus opened his mouth, Yacintos said in a calm tone: "If we can invent a device that can filter this poisonous gas, or prevent this poisonous gas and dust from being inhaled into the mouth and nose, will this situation be improved? ?”

"...?" Hephaestus was asked so much that he forgot what he wanted to say. After a moment of stunned, he suddenly burst into interest, "Are you suggesting that we challenge the use of materials available to humans and try to solve these human problems? Problems you will encounter?"

There is no "we", just you.

Yacintos corrected himself in his mind, and continued to work on Vulcan, who was already a little lame: "Yes, there are many more. For example, is there any way to prevent the dust in the mine from floating around magically? The miners do it by themselves, so as not to waste their labor time, after all, part of their salary is calculated according to the harvesting results..."

He also casually talked about the regrets in his heart when he inspected the silver mine, and his eyes stayed on Hephaestus's face for a moment.

He thought that Hephaestus fell in love with the Goddess of Beauty because of her beauty, so a person who fell in love with someone because of his appearance, shouldn't he be fascinated by his face?

Or did he misunderstand in which link, for example, Hephaestus didn't want to marry Aphrodite because of her beauty?

"...Yes, this is simply too challenging!" Hephaestus completely declared that he was limped by Hyacinthus, his face showed an unprecedented brilliance, he was so energetic that he even threw away his crutches and limped Walking to the material area in the corner of the workshop, I reached out and rummaged, "I used to use very rare materials that condense divine power to make utensils. Only use ordinary materials that humans can obtain to achieve everything you said? Oh, it must be It's going to be a lot of fun!"

As soon as Hephaestus's hand touched the material, his agitated movements became slow and patient.

He carefully fiddled with the material, caressing the corners of the material with his rough fingers, his eyes lovingly looked like he was not looking at a piece of dry wood, but his lover.

Hyacinthus: "..."

Was his countenance ineffective against Hephaestus, because Vulcan loves rare materials more than human beauty?

As he walked away, he suddenly felt that his hands were empty.

"..." A-Ka stood behind the iron frame in the distance, and cast complicated gazes.

The tall shelf cast a shadow, covering his dark eyes, making Hyacinths somewhat unable to see the emotions in the other's eyes.

However, Hyacinthus didn't intend to challenge his eyesight by standing in place. While Hephaestus was still rummaging, he stepped forward calmly with his long legs, walked to the iron frame with a few steps, and stretched out his hand to catch Ah Ka's forearm, turned his face to Aka's ear: "Don't make trouble, it's a special period."

He spoke righteously, and he didn't idle while holding Aka's hand. Radu pulled him, slid up the way, and squeezed Aka's arm.

Unlike him, A-Ka looked thin and stylish in his clothes, but his muscles under the fabric were strong and bulging.

Yacintos clicked his tongue lightly after pinching, his tone full of envy and jealousy.

"I—" Hephaestus, who just turned around and saw the two hugging each other and biting their ears: "..."

The poor honest man's ears were red, and he turned back stiffly little by little, trying to pretend not to see Hyacinthus' messy hand on Akka's arm: "I——cough!" He cleared his throat, booming like Lei Sheng's voice was quiet because of embarrassment, "Well, I really didn't have the habit of collecting ordinary materials before, but I can leave it to my attendants to do it. Do you want to see the materials in my collection..."

In the end, Hephaestus' tone was a bit pitiful, mainly because he was embarrassed and wondered whether he should leave the workshop temporarily?But it's so rare that someone comes to visit, and he doesn't really want to leave.

Yacintos turned back calmly: "Of course, I'm sorry, I can't help it."

"..." A-Ka was speechless in his black eyes.

Hyacinthus stopped when he saw it, raised his hands and took a few steps back, walked up to Hephaestus, and continued to speak brazenly: "It's funny, in fact, we don't often show our intimate side in front of people, he is a bit shy now —do you have anything good to divert his attention?"

Don't show often?Vulcan breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly pointed to his material rack cooperatively, and picked out an interesting one and said, "See these pieces of wood with blue light? I have used up the original complete wood, but this I actually dismantled it from the throne of Poseidon."

"?" Aka couldn't help but cast his gaze from behind the two of them.

Hephaestus: "Including the throne that Poseidon is currently using in the meeting hall of the Sea God Temple, I also made it for him."

He turned around and limped to the workbench, flipping through the mountains of drawings: "At that time, I was thinking about what to do if some innate materials ran out? I had to prepare for my future .So I cut down some holy olive trees from Mount Olympus and made them into Sea Emperor Chairs and sent them to Poseidon.”

Hephaestus took out one of the many drawings, and said with some pride: "This kind of wood is very special, and it can infiltrate Poseidon's divine power over time. I told Poseidon that every 1000 years this Sea Emperor Chair The main parts have to be replaced every year. In fact, I just dismantle the wood that has been completely saturated with divine power, and then replace it with some new wood and send it back. I have inexhaustible Poseidon divine power. Wood!"

Excited, Hyacinthus could almost see the villain in Hephaestus's eyes applauding his wit wildly.

"..." He took the drawing from Hephaestus with a complicated expression.

Is this to prepare for your future?Does Sea God know that you continue to use him as a renewable resource?

But these words, Jacintos just complained in his heart, on the surface he still admired Hephaestus' wit, and lowered his head to scan the blueprint given by Hephaestus.

"However, it is quite troublesome to dismantle it every 1000 years. The holy olive wood is very strong. If it is killed, it is difficult to replace the board at will." Hephaestus circled some places on the drawing with his fingers, and demonstrated with his hands After a while, "These hidden structures can ensure that it is very convenient for me to disassemble, but I can't make it so obvious, lest Poseidon easily discover the secret of the Sea Emperor Chair... So it takes some skills to disassemble these mechanisms. , like here..."

Hephaestus demonstrated very hard. On the one hand, he has been engaged in casting for so many years, and it is the first time to bring a friend to visit his workshop. This friend keeps giving him sincere surprises. Talk about desire.On the other hand, he still remembered Aka's shyness, and hoped to use his own strength to help his friend solve this little problem.

So when he finished all the demonstrations, he pretended to be plain and said: "Everyone on Mount Olympus will come here when they are interested. It is nature to pursue pleasure, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. You humans just have too many rules."

It was a rare day for him to talk until his mouth was dry. He casually found a small stone bench beside him and sat down. He looked at the sky outside, and it was already evening. Greet new friends: "Sit? The servants will prepare dinner for us."

He was a little embarrassed, but scratched his chin with interest, "I've said so much, can you also talk about it? How did you fall in love?"

There was a little envy in Hephaestus' eyes.

He has never really tasted what love should taste like.His long marriage to Aphrodite had brought him nothing but weariness, anger and bitterness.

They were more enemies than husband and wife, torturing each other.

"..." Hyacinthus glanced at Hephaestus.

Just now when he heard Vulcan say, "Can you also talk about it", his heart skipped a beat. Fortunately, the other party didn't want them to share their forging experience.

In order to completely eliminate this possibility, Yacintos decided to set the content for their future communication with Vulcan, such as a long love epic: "Actually, this story is very long to tell." He said in a deep voice, " I can only tell you first that we originally came from two hostile camps that were in the same situation, and experienced all kinds of life and death tests during this period, parting, fleeing, temptation, war... We even became enemies with our own compatriots."

"...Oh." Hephaestus' expression changed unconsciously, he sat up straight, and leaned forward slightly.

Some time ago, he tried to steal materials from the underworld. Before he was driven out of the underworld by the God of Death and the God of Sleep, he heard someone on the boat of the ferryman Charon singing a love story of Apollo by the River Styx.

It's a pity that the God of Death and the God of Sleep didn't have any courtesy to the brothers. They just pushed him out of the gate of hell, and he had time to hear how Apollo was heartbroken for his lover, and he was kicked out of the underworld without any cause and effect.

Hephaestus thought very excitedly in his heart, Apollo's love story is pretty good, most of it is about a beauty and then turns it around, there is no connotation at all, my friend's love experience sounds rough Rich and, most importantly, authentic!

Hephaestus put his hands on the edge of the square stone bench, and when he heard Jacintos raise his head, he suddenly stood up from the bench: "No, no, keep going, don't stop, I'll make a floor for you two , will you spend the night with me tonight? I want to hear you finish your story."

Yacintos pretended to hesitate: "But we came here to learn casting technology..."

Hephaestus showed a painful resignation expression: "——Well, when the materials arrive, I will teach you casting skills every day, and you will tell me your stories for a while before going to bed after dinner."

Speaking of casting, Hephaestus's expression became serious again: "But I have to say something first, my casting method may be different from what you humans usually use. Especially if you want to achieve Zeus's It has the same effect as Aegis, I ask you to forget all the concepts and muscle habits you have learned before tomorrow... well, three days, within three days."

"..." Hyacinthus and Hephaestus looked at each other for a moment, nodded, and said in a serious tone, "It's a bit difficult, but we will definitely work hard."

Aka: "..."

Acting just like the real thing!

…………

Aphrodite soon heard the sad news that the humans she had captured were really living in the workshop from the metal servant who was busy in the kitchen.

After being shocked, she bit her lip angrily, pinched her nose to pretend to be gentle and considerate, and knocked on the door of the workshop with the bread and broth made by the servant, but was turned away by Hephaestus.

Just kidding, he was trying to learn from his friend's love story and learn how the other party turned an enemy into a lover, so how could he leak the secret.

Aphrodite was so angry, but there was nothing she could do, she could only comfort herself that "they can't stay out forever", and walked back to the palace with heavy steps.

Inside the workshop.

Hephaestus was sitting on his floor, eating the dinner that the servant brought in again, listening to Hyacinthus with relish, and looking out of the window, it was almost night, so he quickly got up to help the two of them Pull the curtain: "Relax, with the efficiency of my god servant, the materials should be delivered in the morning, no one wants to doze off in front of the furnace. Oh, don't worry, the curtain has the magic of sound insulation, I listen There is no movement from you."

Hephaestus chuckled and drew the dark curtain.

Even after the break, the workshop still had a few unknown stoves that were still burning, and the dark and steady firelight was just suitable for Hyacinthus' habits.

He looked down at the bed under his body. With his and Aka's sizes, it was just enough for them to lie down side by side.With a narrow smile in his eyes, Yacintos lay down on one side of the bed and patted the other side casually: "Come on."

"..." A-Ka didn't move, his thick and black eyelashes drooped, half covering his eyes, only his brows unconsciously knit together revealed some of his mood.

Hyacinthus waited lazily for a while before realizing that A-Ka really didn't intend to go to sleep, and the frown might not be because of shyness, but rather displeasure.

He was stunned for a while before half-standing up: "You won't be angry because of the lie I made up to Vulcan? At that time, there was really only one statement that popped into my mind, which could minimize his hostility towards us. Later It’s not convenient to change it any more, so I can only continue acting…”

He paused, feeling uncomfortable because he still needed to explain to A-Ka in this way.

But it shouldn’t be uncomfortable, anyway, he used this method without discussing it with A-Ka, and A-Ka has never liked contact with people, presumably this method will definitely make A-Ka not too high—

"I like men." A-Ka said suddenly, with a light tone, "You shouldn't have made up such a lie, and like before, you always act unscrupulously... not honest."

The fire in the nearby stove suddenly crackled, and the light in the workshop went dark for a brief moment, and then brightened again, like an imperceptible shake.

"..." Hyacinthus recovered his voice after a while, but his brain was still running away from home, and the remaining instincts could only support him to say, "Oh, sorry. I thought—— No other reason, I'm sorry."

Relying on the self-cultivation he had been taught over the years, he knelt and sat up subconsciously: "Then it doesn't seem appropriate for us to sleep like this. I can find some pillows and put them between us, or make another bed on the floor. I will sleep with Hefei tomorrow morning." Storrs said you were angry-sorry, I really shouldn't have used this reason at the time, but the lie has been spread, and it is not easy to expose it for the time being...You don't need to respond, I will find a way to deal with it."

Reason and thinking ability finally returned to the brain, and Jacintos quickly thought of a remedy, but the lightheartedness and joy when the curtain was just drawn before disappeared lightly.

He rubbed the red cloak that was loose on his knees, and while he was at a loss, another more heavy emotion rose in his heart.

This emotion is definitely not joyful, and Hyacinthus had to lower his head and raise his hand, covered his lower lip with a dry cough before regaining his usual composure: "I saw that Hephaestus pulled out the quilt from that cabinet—— "

A-Ka withdrew his hand and said, "Forget it, don't make a fuss, it's a mess."

"Then I'll roll up the cloak and put it between us." Jacintos took off the red cloak, took a picture of the shape, and just raised his head, he saw Aka staring at the red cloak and frowning.

He said helplessly: "The cloak is only this thin, and it can only be rolled so thick at most. If you really feel uncomfortable, it's okay to put pillows and make beds—"

"That's it." Aka interrupted Jacintos and lay down on the other side of the bed.

He didn't turn his back on Jacintos, which eased the embarrassment somewhat, but the man was almost asleep along the edge, and one of his arms was only a hair away from the bed go.

Hyacinthus stared at it for a while, but still swallowed the words "you sleep in", stretched the quilt to lie down, turned sideways on his own initiative, and moved to the edge to leave more space for A-Ka.

He stared at the front for a while, feeling uncomfortable, but a new question popped up in his heart:

like men?Then why didn't you say it earlier?

...And it is considered crossing the line that he squeezed his arms and slept on the same bed. Aka massaged and bathed him before... What is it?

He admitted that most of the subsequent massages were suggested by him, but Aka took the initiative in the first massage and bathing.

……what.

Jacintos suddenly had a sense of irony when he thought about it halfway. This is a bit of a double standard. If it really depends on who suffers, isn't he the one who suffers more?

The author has something to say: This chapter is two in one~