When Jones Jr. found Yang Jing on the ice at noon, he almost popped his eyes out when he saw the six or seven large holes in the ice and the frozen Asian carp around the holes.

"Hey, Albert, why did you bring up so many Asian carp? This kind of fish cannot be eaten. The heavy metal content exceeds the standard." Little Jones shouted at Yang Jing with red eyes.

Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly and said, "You can't blame me for this. If you want to blame someone, blame the fact that there are too many freshwater fish in this river. I just wanted to catch two carps weighing about one kilogram, but when I chiseled a hole in the ice, these fish jumped up desperately as if they had taken drugs, and I couldn't stop them... Michael, why did you come here at this time? Didn't I ask you and Roy to come in the evening?"

Little Jones walked onto the ice and kicked a silver carp that was more than 60 centimeters long but frozen hard. The fish did not move at all, but he grinned and cursed under his breath.

"Roy is still sleeping. I couldn't fall asleep after only three hours of sleep. Since I had nothing else to do, I came to see you first. Albert, why did you get so many fish? These fish can't be eaten. Although I know that you Chinese are very good at cooking freshwater fish, the heavy metal content in these freshwater fish exceeds the standard and people can't eat them."

Yang Jing shook his head and said, "Michael, I think you are wrong. The Asian carp with excessive heavy metals you mentioned are the Asian carp in the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River has excessive heavy metals, but this is the upper reaches of the Missouri River. The fish living here don't have so many heavy metals in their bodies."

As he spoke, Yang Jing kicked a half-meter-long carp with his foot. "Take this fish for example. If my estimate is correct, this fish has lived here for at least five years. But how long ago did you discover Asian carp here?"

Jones thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be seven or eight years ago? Or maybe even earlier? At that time, Asian carp appeared in the Missouri River and the Sioux River to the north. However, we locals didn't pay much attention to it at that time. By the time we paid attention to it, these crazy fish could no longer be eliminated. They completely dominated this area of ​​water."

"Yes, since Asian carp were found here seven or eight years ago, these fish are no older than seven years old, so they should have been born and raised here. The water quality here is very good, so these fish don't have excessive heavy metals."

Seeing Yang Jing's affirmation, Jones asked doubtfully, "So you mean these fish can be eaten?"

Yang Jing nodded without question. It was just a joke. As a member of the Great Foodie Empire, if such a good fish could not be eaten, then my compatriots would be stabbed in the back if they knew about it!

"But this fish is terrible to eat. It has a strong fishy smell and a lot of bones. No one here eats this kind of fish."

"Haha, that's because you don't know how to cook this kind of fish. Michael, since you came early today, I will make you a sweet and sour carp at noon today, so that you can taste what the authentic Chinese sweet and sour carp tastes like. I guarantee you will like it!"

Americans prefer sweet and sour taste, so the dish of sweet and sour pork tenderloin will not be popular in the United States. Similarly, if sweet and sour carp is well prepared, it tastes better than sweet and sour pork tenderloin. Yang Jing doesn't believe that Jones doesn't like it.

The main reason why Yang Jing broke so many holes in the ice was to catch two smaller carps. Carps are too big to be suitable for making sweet and sour carp. Large carps can only be cut into fish pieces for braised or stewed at home.

The size of carp suitable for making sweet and sour carp should not exceed three pounds, but what Yang Jing did not expect was that since the ice hole was broken here, big fish weighing more than seven or eight pounds or even ten pounds jumped out of the ice hole one after another without caring about their lives, and the smaller fish did not dare to come forward at all.

Forget about fishing with a fishing rod. All Yang Jing had to do was smash a hole in the ice. In less than ten minutes, the area around the hole would be filled with frozen big fish!

These fish jumped up in a line as if they had made an appointment beforehand. It was a spectacular scene!

However, this kind of scene seems to no longer be seen in domestic rivers...

Seeing that there were only two carps weighing two to three pounds in Yang Jing's net, the big carp that he put into the net at the beginning had already turned into a lump of ice. Little Jones couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, "Albert, are you only taking these two fish back? What about the rest?"

Yang Jing shrugged his shoulders. "We can only wait until the thaw next spring, when these fish will return to the Missouri River. I don't need these fish anyway."

Just kidding, he is the only one here, and there are at least thirty or forty fish that jumped up by themselves, and each one weighs at least five or six kilograms. If he were to eat them all by himself, he would have to wait until the New Year!

So these fish can only be left here. Anyway, it's cold, the fish will freeze into a lump of ice in a short time, and there is no need to worry about them rotting and polluting the surrounding environment.

Little Jones took the scoop from Yang Jing's hand. The two fish were struggling in the scoop. Yang Jing pushed the cart, and the two walked into the house side by side.

At noon, Yang Jing prepared a sweet and sour carp and a home-cooked tile fish, which really made Jones feel more pain than happiness while eating.

This guy can't eat freshwater fish, so he can't do anything about the small bones in the freshwater fish, and he gets stuck from time to time. However, the taste of the two fish dishes made by Yang Jing is absolutely excellent, so even if Jones is stuck by a fish bone, he is reluctant to put down his knife and fork...

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