After the Yellow Mud Boards were all made, Cheng Xing had finished writing all the characters she knew, which filled two sheets of paper, totaling nearly ten thousand characters.
To her surprise, she had a good memory, and her handwriting was beautiful.
Unlike Fang Zhou, whose brush-written characters were all crooked and slanted, comprehensible only to himself; they could very well be used as a code.
Fang Zhou asked the gourd children to help by cutting out these characters one by one and pasting them in reverse on the Yellow Mud Boards, then carving according to the traces of the characters.
After carving, each character was cut into a rectangular stamp of uniform length, width, and height.
He also made some larger mud stamps for use as titles.
In the end, it was the fourth child who breathed fire to harden these mud stamps by firing them.
Due to improper control of the fire, many were burnt and had to be redone.
