After watching for a while, Lu Fangfang decided to try it herself.
She scooped up the yellow clay, put it into the mold, and then pressed it down firmly.
Seeing that the yellow clay in the mold was uneven, she simply reached out and smoothed it out.
Pulling the ropes on both sides of the mold, Lu Fangfang gently lifted it up, and two rectangular clay pieces appeared before her eyes.
These two clay blanks are very neat, with no damage around them.
"It's quite simple."
Next to the freshly made adobe bricks, she put down the mold and shoveled in more yellow mud.
However, when she lifted the mold this time, she found that the adobe bricks on the ground were pitted and uneven all around.
Looking back, she realized that the mold was covered in yellow mud.
Lu Fangfang thought about it for a moment and knew what was going on. She went home and brought out a basin of water.
She washed away the yellow mud around the mold with water and tried again.
Sure enough, the mud bricks that came out again were neat and intact.
Once she knew the trick, Lu Fangfang found it easy to make mud bricks.
Put down the mold, scrape off the yellow clay, smooth it out, lift the mold, wash away the yellow clay inside the mold, and then remove another piece.
Soon, she had removed dozens of adobe bricks from the base of the wall.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Lu Fangfang was just about to take a break when she saw Xiao Zhengwei's daughter, Da Ya, skipping and hopping out.
"Auntie? What are you doing?"
"Make some adobe bricks. By the way, why did you come out? Who's watching the hatching eggs on the kang (heated brick bed)?"
"My brother is at home watching over things."
Daya immediately put on a bitter face. She had been staying at home every day tending to the hatching eggs and was getting bored to death.
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