My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 68

The fact that Sophia had managed to lead Company 49 to a meal with meat in it quickly spread across the entire barrack. Most of the companies started following in their footsteps as they grouped together and took action. They started using skateboards to buy themselves time and started swimming—just like what Sophia had done.

In order to land themselves a meaty meal, they had to strive for it. These noble children did not think that they would have to get themselves covered in mud just to have some meat in their meals. All the drill instructors seemed to have ignored the students’ behavior.

No one knew if they were being supportive or against their actions as they had not made any comments about it. Nevertheless, they did not stop them. Thus, Sophia assumed that they had agreed to it.

Without a doubt, she had a spy by her side who easily went undercover inside the enemies’ base. Whenever she was unclear about the instructor’s orders, she would let her spy go undercover.

“The commanders from the other companies will certainly admire Commander Ford for having a batch of intellectual students. Unlike the others, they are all self-righteous idiots!”

After Nathan had gone out to acquire more inside news, he came back and announced this in front of the 30 other girls who were in the dorm.

The crowd was stunned. They did not expect the other commanders to have such good remarks for them. Everyone was exhilarated before they gave Nathan hugs one after another. It was great having Nathan!

Nonetheless, they were completely unaware of Nathan’s background. Most of them thought that none of the commanders had noticed him when they were chattering because Nathan was just a little boy. Much to their surprise, Nathan was a really intelligent boy whenever he came back with all the secret information.

While most of the girls were still going on in excitement, Nathan dropped another piece of groundbreaking news. “The commanding general has been paying close attention to Company 49. He’s said that your performance is outstanding, but he’s worried that it wouldn’t persist for long.”

“Oh my God. Even the commanding general is following us closely!” the girls exclaimed in utter disbelief.

“Are you telling the truth, Nate? Even the eldest Young Master of the Fletcher Family is paying close attention to us?”

“I feel very blessed. Even the commanding general has been looking at me the whole day!”

Nathan nodded with a straight face. “The commanding general even mentioned that the barracks would select the three best companies each year where everyone would receive a prize.

This time, if the 49th Company is awarded with the award, he will have dinner together with all the students from the company.”

Dinner together! Immediately, everyone started cheering joyfully. It would definitely be a great blessing if they could have dinner together with the commanding general!

The bunch of girls were on cloud nine. At that moment, they were charged with boundless motivation. Nathan looked at most of the girls who were very excited, and he thought to himself in his mind, They sure are easy to fool! Nathan was not excited at all. In fact, he wanted to laugh at them.

Just then, Sophia called for everyone. “Alright, guys. That’s enough cheering about. Among the several hundreds of companies, only three companies will be awarded the prize; it won’t necessarily be us.

If we really want to have dinner together with the commanding general, we shall all do our best! The internal affairs should be checked thoroughly. Since we had several points deducted from us a few days ago, we shouldn’t make any more mistakes.

Therefore, we ought to unite and we will be stronger together as one! If we don’t work hard enough, how are we supposed to defeat the other companies and win the chance of having dinner together with the commanding general?”

Joel did pay more attention toward the 49th Company. Nonetheless, the remaining words were just nonsense that Sophia had told Nathan to say. However, the effects of the bluff proved to be extraordinary; those words had amped up the girls’ motivation.

That night, they learned how to fold their quilts voluntarily. Soon enough, they’d be able to fold up their quilts into perfect cubes in order to score the highest for internal affairs. They wanted the commanding general to notice them!

Sophia twitched her lips after seeing the enthusiasm of those girls. Joel is indeed famous among the girls—he’s simply more sought-after than meat.

Was it because he was the youngest Senior Colonel across the entire Cethos; his identity as the Young Master of the Fletcher Family; or the fact that he was exceptionally tall and handsome?

What was so great about him? Sophia’s husband—the pervert—had a villa situated just outside the Forbidden City; he had a height of 1.9 meters; and the amount of money he had was comparable to the number of fleas on a beggar.

If they were put side to side, Michael still looked better than Joel. Well, at least he was her husband. Moreover, Sophia did not like Joel that much for some unknown reason. To her, he seemed to be insidious and dark.

True enough, there was an insider among the 49th Company. News about the commanding general awarding the best company with a dinner had spread across the entire barrack not long after Nathan’s bluff!

Moreover, some had even added to that saying—whoever scored the top three highest points would stand the chance to have dinner with Joel, male or female regardless!

Sophia was completely clueless. In just one day, everyone was aware of the nonsense that she had made up. Whether it was the girls or the boys, they were all extremely excited all of a sudden.

Almost none of the girls in the barracks disliked Joel; they had nearly gone mad just by thinking about the chance of dining with him. Unfortunately, they were not able to pull a few strings. Now that they all had an opportunity before them, they wanted to fight for it.

As for the boys, they would first have dinner with Joel before cozying up to him in order to expand their social network. After all, Joel Fletcher might even be gay!

Joel was over 30 years old, but he was still an unmarried man; he had never opened up about dating somebody as well. Even though he had his fair share of love affairs, he never once admitted to any one of them either. Perhaps he was really gay!

This piece of gossip initially floated between the students; well-informed students kept it a secret, but it quickly became an open secret to the public later on.

In the end, an insensitive student had asked a company commander about it. The company commander had then reported it to the battalion commanders, and it was reported to the regimental commanders before it reached Joel’s ears.

Soon enough, the regimental commanders passed back down the news to its descending commanders, and the respective commanders finally responded to countless students who had been long waiting for the news.

“The commanding general said that only the best team can have dinner with him. The best individual among the entire barrack can dine with him alone, and even add him as a friend on Instagram.”

Apart from having dinner with him, they could even add him on Instagram?! The entire training field was covered in cheers. On the other hand, Sophia was dumbfounded.

She had only wanted to help those damsels in distress, but how did it actually come true?! What if she was the one who scored full marks? Would she have to have dinner alone with Joel? That wouldn’t be great at all! He was Michael’s brother! It all seemed too weird.

The students started working harder than they used to just because of what Joel had said. There were less indolent students, and the 49th Company became even more diligent than they used to be as well.

Nonetheless, students did not necessarily score high marks for their diligence. Most of the students were hardworking, but they did not have impressive scores—that was because there were hidden demerit points in military training which company commanders deliberately hid from the students.

Once a student entered the barracks to join military training, they ought to act like a real soldier. Whoever failed to do so would get their marks deducted.

Sophia had been taking advantage of the opportunity she had while redressing her wound to sneak into the computer room. She had video calls with Michael in order to know more about the hidden demerit points in military training.

“Chica, remember to wake up at seven o’clock sharp in the morning. You have to clock in at the cafeteria before seven thirty to get your breakfast. Whoever doesn’t get their breakfast on time will get their points deducted for sleeping in. You must take your nap in the afternoon.

If you’re found wandering around during nap time, you’ll get your points deducted every time the commanders see you. Also, you have to obey all the rules and regulations in the barracks—don’t question me why.

All of you are soldiers now, so it’s your duty to obey all the orders. Even if the company commanders have ordered you to eat sh*t, you have to finish it up before you even ask why.”