Watching the two men rush about, Shen Shixu said to Xiao Jinyi beside him, "We can't leave all the work to them. Let's go help too!"
Xiao Jinyi nodded. When they went outside, they saw Jiang Bin and Zhang Ming crouching to one side, still throwing up. Shen Shixu hadn't expected them to still be at it after all this time.
He immediately thought these two were rather useless. He didn't realize he had said it aloud until he heard Xiao Jinyi laugh.
At his words, Xiao Jinyi turned away from his gaze and chuckled. When he turned back, he found Shen Shixu staring at him reproachfully.
The smile had yet to fade from Xiao Jinyi's face, and Shen Shixu admitted that, for a moment, it had taken his breath away.
How could he describe Xiao Jinyi's smile? It was like a volcano suddenly erupting on a snowy mountain, its scorching lava melting the snow inch by inch. Then spring returned to the earth, and tender green shoots sprouted from the parched soil.
"You really do look best when you smile. But although I want to see you smile, I don't want you laughing at me."
Seeing that Shen Shixu seemed a little angry, Xiao Jinyi hurried to explain. "I wasn't laughing at you. It's just that when you called Jiang Bin and the others useless, you sounded like a father looking at his sons. You had the air of a stern father, and I found it amusing. I wasn't mocking you."
Although Xiao Jinyi's words comforted Shen Shixu, they dealt Jiang Bin and Zhang Ming another blow.
Hearing Shen Shixu call them useless had already chilled them to the core. Before they could stitch up the holes in their hearts, another stab tore those still-unmended wounds even wider.
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