People were easily influenced by their surroundings. Earlier, everyone had seen that the walnuts opened from the green skins were nothing special in terms of color, and even if they could be matched into pairs, they were hardly worth anything. Now that they saw Shopkeeper Ping open a pair of superb walnuts worth at least a thousand yuan after spending less than a hundred, their thoughts began to stir.
Think about it. Shopkeeper Ping had never played with walnuts before. The green-skinned walnuts he picked were either chosen with Xiao Cheng's help or picked randomly by himself. If he could still open a pair of superb walnuts, then surely their luck couldn't be worse than his. How could they fail to pick out a superb pair?
Besides, even if their luck was bad and they couldn't open a pair, they could open two or three pairs. At worst, they could try ten pairs. That would only cost two hundred yuan. Surely they could open at least one pair of superb walnuts?
But to be honest, it was genuinely difficult. Otherwise, with so many people betting on green skins in the antique markets of later generations, how could some of them still lose everything?
What was more, the sellers of green skins weren't fools either. They had already picked out the good ones, opened them, and sold them for high prices. The green skins actually used for gambling were mostly ordinary goods, and very few could produce superb walnuts.
However, the green-skinned walnuts Xiao Cheng had here contained little moisture, so the odds of opening walnuts with excellent appearance were relatively high. Otherwise, even Chu Chen would have suspected that Shopkeeper Ping was a plant Xiao Cheng had hired.
Some might say, "Aren't these green skins only twenty yuan a pair?