Fancheng Zoo.

"Lao Qu, are you still not leaving?" Xiao Yuan had already changed out of the breeder's costume, leaning on the side of the tiger park and knocking on the railing leisurely.

Xiao Yuan, 32 years old this year, a breeder in the beast area of Fancheng Zoo, was just hired here last year.

"What time is it?" Qu Xinhua raised his arm and looked at the time, four o'clock in the afternoon, so he frowned.

Qu Xinhua, 47 years old this year, was there when Fancheng Zoo opened, and has been there for 12 years, mainly responsible for poultry breeding.

The zoo's normal closing time should be half past six in the afternoon, and if business is good, it will generally be delayed until eight in the evening.

Of course, in the last four or five years, there has been no delay, because after half past six, there will be no more visitors to the entire zoo, except for the animals and a few keepers and staff.

Moreover, now there are fewer and fewer breeders and staff, from more than 60 people in the heyday, to now there are 8 people plus the old couple who watch the door.

But even so few people are absent-minded. Because without welfare, there is no motivation.

Fancheng Zoo was originally founded by a big boss from out of town, but later the boss probably encountered some financial problems, and half of the zoo was paralyzed. Later, the Fancheng government took over the zoo because it was difficult to deal with so many large wild animals in the park, and the boss invested a lot in the early stage, but the zoo was basically in a state of self-financing.

Whether it is an enterprise or a unit, as long as there is no constraint of the relevant system, no matter how good the beginning is, it will go down. What's more, zoos, whether it is species or facilities, are in the category of being eliminated if they are not updated for five or six years.

Nowadays, there are zoos everywhere in the country, and the large safari park is a thrilling and exciting close-up experience, such as the Fancheng Zoo, which was built more than ten years ago, around the cage to see the tiger and lion lying on the concrete floor.

This is not interested, and the most direct manifestation is in ticket revenue.

In general, the ticket price of a large zoo is 100+, and the small one is at least fifty or sixty, Fancheng Zoo, ten years ago, the ticket price was 5 yuan, and it was raised once in the middle, to 10 yuan, and then, it has always been 10 yuan, and it has never risen again.

Ten yuan a ticket, or an adult ticket, in today's era of sitting on a three-minute merry-go-round and buying a hydrogen balloon for ten yuan, it is really too low to be lower.

But even so, there are very few people who come to visit every day, like today is still in the summer vacation, but because it is not a holiday, business is very cold, and the total ticket income is only 800.

What is the concept of more than 800 a day for a zoo? The minimum wage guarantee for 8 staff members needs nearly 400 a day. There are also two penguins and a sled dog in the polar pavilion, and their survival requires low-temperature air conditioning, and the electricity bill for a full day costs 100 yuan.

Not to mention anything else, a tiger normally eats more than 10 catties of beef a day, but how expensive is beef now? Even if it is buffalo meat, it is easy to eat 300 a day.

So in order to keep the only two tigers and one lion from starving to death, only a few staff members tightened their belts.

"Everyone is getting older and less motivated to work, but you're good, you're getting more and more active, and even the beast area is in charge. Xiao Yuan still said leisurely leaning against the railing.

Saying that, Xiao Yuan also dialed the beef in the bucket, oh no, this should be pork, anyway, this meat is still oozing blood, quite fresh.

Qu Xinhua ignored his colleague. Today's young people...... Well, for 47-year-old Qu Xinhua, his colleague, who is only in his thirties, is considered a young man...... Why is there no sense of responsibility at work?

That's right, this guy is in charge of the beast area, he doesn't care about himself, but he still mutters about others.

There are two tigers, male and female, and they are quite old, and they are lying under the shade of the trees at the moment, motionless.

If you look at it, you will feel so leisurely, and you can't help but envy how good it is to be a tiger, just eat, drink, sleep and sleep, and occasionally stand up and walk around, which can attract screams.

But if you're really these two tigers, you shouldn't feel good because they didn't eat yesterday. In other words, what I ate yesterday was the meat and bones that were gnawed the day before yesterday.

It is said that the tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, and the tiger in Fancheng Zoo is even worse than a dog at home, and he can have bones to eat every day.

Therefore, when Lao Qu picked a large piece of pork into the circle, the two tigers opened their eyes together, and then quickly stood up and competed for this piece of meat.

"If this scene were placed in a large zoo, it would definitely cause quite a stir. Xiao Yuan sighed, and leisurely picked up a piece of pork and threw it in.

Sure enough, the two tigers rushed up again and bit and scramble together.

This kind of scene of two tigers fighting for food is not seen in the lively zoo. In order to motivate these beasts, the rich zoos had to throw in live chickens, ducks and even sheep. Even so, those well-fed beasts have become commonplace. Lazy and don't want to move.

But at this moment, the two tigers were actually happy to be like this because of a few slices of pork.

There is no way, if you are a human being, if you eat bran vegetables for several months in a row, you will suddenly have a white steamed bun, and you will definitely not even need water. The same goes for tigers. Meat, it's meat, it's much better than bones.

"Where did all this pork come from?"

Suddenly, Xiao Yuan was happily throwing pork and watching and playing, but suddenly frowned.

"Bought it!"

Qu Xinhua yelled angrily.

"Didn't the finance say that there was no money? The salary was only 1,000 yuan, and there was money to buy pork?" the middle-aged man was already a little indignant.

Although pork is cheaper than beef, I don't know how much, but such a big bucket of dozens of catties will cost one or two hundred.

"I paid it myself!"

Qu Xinhua squeezed out this sentence almost word by word, and his tone was more indignant than that of his colleagues, and even angry.

"Yo~~~" Xiao Yuan sighed, "People can't afford to raise it, you still raise a tiger?"

"If you can't raise them, will it be difficult to starve them to death?" Qu Xinhua scoffed.

"Starve to death, starve to death, anyway, a dead tiger is worth more than a live tiger in these years. ”

Xiao Yuan said, he was no longer interested in the two tigers fighting for pork, and he only hoped that the two tigers would die as soon as possible.

Now a tiger skin has been fried for more than 500,000 yuan on the black market, and there are tiger bones, a 500ml bottle of tiger bone wine can be sold for one or two thousand. But illegal hunting of tigers is to go to jail, and it doesn't mean that you can catch them, but if the two tigers in front of you are "accidentally" raised to death, they can be dealt with openly.

After all, the current cold situation of Fancheng Zoo is well known, and it is not surprising that tigers starved to death.

Xiao Yuan had a wishful thinking, so when he fed him, he was hungry and full, and then slowly dragged it for a long time, trying to torture the two tigers to death in the way of "boiling frogs in warm water".

In fact, this method really worked, and the two tigers were already starving to the bones, and if they lasted a few more weeks, they would almost starve to death.

He has already contacted the next family, a guy who specializes in pouring tiger skin and tiger bones, and gave him a price of 500,000 yuan for a tiger carcass.

500,000 That's all in time for 10 years of eating.