No matter who it is, there's always a few who will back them up, and considering Old Zheng had worked in the zoo for so long as a senior comrade, there were quite a few who echoed his bizarre utterances.
These people all unanimously felt that what Xiao Qin reported back on his first trip was pure nonsense. Who's heard of raising tigers like dogs, keeping them on chains? And which household is so wealthy that they can afford to feed tigers nothing but beef, spending hundreds of thousands a month?
And yet Xiao Qin said so, and Old Wu actually believed it—so there were those who speculated. Could it be that this zoo will one day be owned by their family? Whatever they say goes, as if we're all invisible, right?