He could write and read them out loud at the same time.
"'Black Tiger' loves his wife 'Green Worm'."
To demonstrate the use of writing, once in front of 'Black Tiger' and 'Green Worm', he wrote this line on a clay tablet.
The people around watched him write with great interest.
'One-Eye' fired red clay vessels and liked them to have patterns. Sometimes, he hoped Ma Lin would write some words on them.
They could make small strips of red clay, stick them onto the clay body, and use them to form patterns. Once fired, the patterns would be fixed on the vessel.
However, this was very troublesome and required a lot of thought; making something beautiful was even harder.
Ma Lin could write on the thicker pottery using a bone needle. Even though he thought his writing was ugly, 'One-Eye' was very interested.
He wrote characters like 'Fortune', 'Longevity', and 'Prosperity'.
He could also write people's names on them.
'One-Eye' made himself a teapot to boil water.
