On the eighth day of the lunar month, Liangshan had its first heavy snowfall since the beginning of winter.

In the morning, Gu Haotian woke up on time and was about to get up and go out for a run, but saw Pan Jinlian come in and pressed him back to bed.

"God has given you a holiday today, so take a good rest."

"No, if God didn't give us a holiday, how could I leave my family Lian'er."

Gu Haotian easily pulled Pan Jinlian into his arms, and after a passionate kiss, those hands couldn't help but swim into the soft place.

"Don't make a fuss." Pan Jinlian symbolically resisted and disarmed.

A moment later, when he was about to fall, Gu Haotian tried his best to struggle out of the gentle township.

"Dead Nizi, keep it first, raise it and then eat you, and go to practice your body today."

"You don't have to practice today, God is worried that you are going to eat people, and it is snowing heavily."

After the relationship between the two became more and more intimate, Pan Jinlian had no scruples when she spoke, which would make fun of her own petty officials.

"It's snowing heavily!"

Gu Haotian was stunned for a moment, immediately got dressed, and hurriedly opened the door and walked out. But I saw a vast white expanse in front of me, with mountains, trees, roads, and houses, covered with a thick white snow everywhere. What a lot of snow!

At this time, he suddenly remembered the more than 100 fishermen and bandit families he had brought back from Dengzhou a few days ago, and some of these people seemed to be placed in simple houses.

Oh no, if something happens to these people, it will have a big impact on the reputation of the manor, and he hurriedly ran to the front yard.

"Bian Xiang, who is leading the team to garrison today?"

The Gu family is guarded by the guard battalion in turn every day, which is a new rule established by Xiao Jiasui after he arrived at the Military Administration Department. Gu Haotian thought it was unnecessary, but everyone agreed with the unanimous opinion.

"Little official, it's me."

Before Bian Xiang could reply, someone outside the gatehouse said yes, and then someone ran in, but it was Chen Yun. After Liu Yuan and Chen Yun entered the guard camp, they were soon promoted to captains because of their outstanding martial arts.

"Bian Xiang, you immediately take people to Qianshan, and notify the teaching battalion and cavalry battalion to go to the villages in Houshan to help the people clear snow and provide disaster relief. All other battalions were dispatched to clean all roads, production and office sites. ”

"Chen Yun, you take the rest of the people with me to the temporary resettlement area to have a look."

Immediately, Gu Haotian took the lead and rushed out of the door. saw that a small section of the road at the door had been swept out by Chen Yun's team, and the snow was more than a foot thick.

"The second team listened to the order, took tools into two columns, and headed for the temporary settlement site."

After Chen Yun gave the order, he picked up a shovel and was the first to step into the snow.

Gu Haotian naturally will not walk in the back, he comes from later generations, and he understands the importance of establishing an image as a leader in the face of catastrophes, and he also knows that this time is the best time to harvest the hearts of the people.

I saw him and Chen Yun walking side by side in the front, plowing a deep snow path in the thick snow, like an arrow carved out of the white ground.

The distance between the Gu family and the temporary resettlement site was four or five hundred meters, and in the knee-deep snow, Gu Haotian walked steadily and rhythmically, only secretly frightened Chen Yun on the side. I thought that my martial arts were good, but I didn't expect that I didn't have a little advantage in front of the twelve-year-old petty official.

About the time of a pillar of incense, Gu Haotian and others rushed to the resettlement site. But what appeared in front of me was a mess, and many simple landlords collapsed between the blizzards.

"Not good! Hurry up and save people. ”

Gu Haotian immediately thought that the situation was not good, he shouted, and walked towards the nearest collapsed house. However, when he made his way there, he found that it was empty. Subsequently, several other places also reported that they were all vacant.

"That's weird, I didn't hear that it was already settled, did you?"

When Gu Haotian was puzzled, he saw Tao Zongwang coming over with a few people in the snow.

"Why is the little official here?"

"Tell me first, these people have gone."

Tao Zongwang is the person in charge here, Gu Haotian saw the insider coming over, and hurriedly asked.

"I have to thank that Zhuang Mingli for this, he told me yesterday evening that it would snow if the weather was not right, and it was not safe for people living in temporary houses, so I listened to it and transferred these people."

Zhuang Mingli? Isn't it the master that Zhao Zhuang brought back, I can't imagine that this person not only has some skills, but also cares about things on the mountain. It seems that it may be a bit condescending to put him in the infrastructure department, Gu Haotian can't help but think of a position candidate who has been struggling with in the past few days. He asked:

"Has this person been doing well lately?"

"There's nothing to say, knowledgeable, capable, willing to do things, and careful, the petty officials want to poach people again, I can use it easily."

Tao Zongwang was immediately sensitively aware of the petty official's intentions, but Gu Haotian just smiled. turned around and said to Chen Yun and the others, now that it's okay here, how about we continue to clear the snow?

The petty officials took the lead in person, and Chen Yun and the others naturally applauded, so a hot snow-clearing campaign spread in the back mountains.

Now from the entrance of the "A" village to the newly built "Ji" village where Gu Haotian is located, there are five or six hundred meters, and there are many large and small horizontal streets, forming a vertical and multi-horizontal road network in the back mountain.

The scene of the petty officials taking the lead in clearing the snow was quickly discovered by the people along the street, as well as some early risers.

"Boss, hurry up and get out of bed, the little official is sweeping the snow in front of our store!"

"The petty official ploughs the snow himself?"

A man seemed to be in disbelief, came to the window to take a look, was stunned for a moment, quickly got dressed, picked up tools, and pushed the door out.

"There is a landlord, if Liangshan does not prosper, there will be no heavenly reason."

The two old men who cleared the snow together sighed, and then went back to the house together, and then each corrected a half-grown boy, and scolded in pieces:

"Keep your eyes open and see, who is clearing the snow, and you still have the face to lie in bed."

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Soon, the news that the petty officials personally cleared the snow on the streets spread throughout the villages in the back mountains, and there was no need for any mobilization, so people from all villages and households rushed to join in, picking up their belongings and flocking to the streets and alleys.

In the "Ding" village, an independent courtyard, Zhuang Mingli also heard such news, he was silent for a while, and said to himself, "Yao Shun's posture, the dragon of the abyss." He then picked up his fifteen- or sixteen-year-old son and asked him to go out with him to clear the snow.

"Didn't they already sweep it?" The son was reluctant.

"Son, everyone is sweeping down the street, but you are only staring at the three feet in front of the door, and you won't be able to catch up if you don't go out."

Zhuang Mingli picked up the tools, took his son who seemed to understand or not, and went out.

At this time, the snow clearing movement in the streets became more enthusiastic with the addition of the cavalry battalion on the opposite side.

"Brothers, how about we compete with the cavalry battalion?"

Gu Haotian launched a challenge at the right time, and the guards and people on this side immediately responded enthusiastically, and the cavalry on that side was naturally unwilling to admit defeat. So a boring manual work turned into an entertainment game in an instant, and the street market in the back mountain suddenly became a sea of joy.

Let's say that Li and Bian could hear the noise outside at home, and they also went out of the house together, and saw the lively scene on the street, and then saw the son who was the leader in the crowd. Li suddenly felt extremely proud in her heart, she thought that she should help her son do something, so she thought of today's day, and turned to Bian and said:

"Sister, today is Laba, it's cold, they are working hard, let's boil a few pots of Laba porridge for everyone."

"My sister thought of a good idea, but it was very inconvenient to boil it at home and send it out, so it was better to put a few cauldrons outside, which was also convenient for everyone to eat."

Bian is also a clever person, and immediately understood Li's intentions, and thought of being brilliant at home, so he immediately came up with an idea.

As soon as Li heard that this idea was good, the two of them ordered to go down, and in an instant, the whole family went out together, chopping wood and setting up pots, washing rice and making fires, and after a while, on the side of the road in front of the door, seven or eight cauldrons slipped on the roaring firewood, exuding a rich porridge fragrance.

The action of the ancient family immediately became a silent mobilization order for the Laba Festival in the back mountains of Liangshan, and the action of boiling porridge quickly spread to the entire Houshan market and villages.

First of all, the family members of the leaders began to respond, and then they led every household, and people lit the fire in front of their homes to boil porridge and invite others to taste it.

Aliqi stood on the side of the street in a daze, and an old lady held a bowl of porridge and stuffed it into his hand, "The child eats more to warm his body." He took it mechanically, and he didn't know how many bowls he had eaten, he suddenly remembered his hometown on the grassland, the kind aunt in his hometown, and the warm milk tea of his neighbors, and he couldn't help but feel a little sour and sour for a while.

And this sudden situation caught Gu Haotian unexpectedly, but he was full of emotion, and he immediately called Chen Yun and ordered:

"Go, inform the brothers in the front mountain barracks, come to the back mountain to eat porridge."

Soon after, the members of the battalions in the front mountain joined the ranks of drinking porridge in the back mountain one after another. Most of the guards were the children of the residents of the back mountains, and as soon as they arrived, they were immediately pulled together by the calls of relatives and friends from each family. The atmosphere of eating laba porridge also became more intense with the addition of thousands of team members, just like cooking oil on a blazing fire.

The grand occasion of the first Laba Festival in Liangshan Manor has left an indelible mark in people's memory, and since then, every year Laba, the street boils porridge and invites people to taste it together, which has become the custom agreed by the locals, and has been passed down from generation to generation. It's just that in the Laba Festival of later generations, there is an additional memorial ceremony, every day, the first two bowls of porridge will be carried by the whole mountain, beating gongs and drums and respectfully sent to the Taizu Palace, offering to the Empress Dowager and Taizu.

Let's say that Wen Huanzhang and Xiao Jiasui didn't go to clear the snow that day, and the two of them climbed the back mountain early in the morning to enjoy the snow scene, and they saw everything that happened under the mountain from beginning to end. The two wise men didn't say anything about it, only Wen Huanzhang said meaningfully to the snowy scenery all over the mountains.

"Rui Xue Feng Nian, what a good omen!"