My Dreamy Old Husband novel Chapter 125

The third and second place for the Best Company award were announced one after another. The winners were Company 25 and 80. These two companies had outstanding results. Company 25 voluntarily took a hoe and built a path from the training ground to the canteen, while Company 80 rescued a snub-nosed monkey that was seriously injured and nearly died. The Forestry Department even specially sent them a thank-you gift.

It was finally the time for the announcement of the first place for the Best Company award. The host looked lively at everyone’s expectant gazes before speaking in a sweet voice, “The company that won the first place for the Best Company award is really a worthy winner of this award.

They are united, caring, and helpful to one another. They didn’t strive for individual excellence; they strived for zero failures. During the military training, they have done many remarkable deeds. They are the…”

Everyone held their breath, and even Sophia stared wide-eyed at the stage, waiting for the host to announce the winner of the Best Company award.

The host paused for a few seconds, which felt like a few centuries to everyone.

Finally, the host’s lips parted, and the name of the company that everyone was expecting was announced. “Company 49!”

The audience burst into an uproar. Everyone from Company 49 was shocked and delighted, and tears of joy streamed down their cheeks. They nearly hugged one another and cried.

The host started to introduce the remarkable deeds of Company 49. “Company 49 pioneered the united-style military training. When they were in field training exercise, they traveled in a team, and everyone arrived at the finishing line on time.

There were two students who unfortunately got hurt during the training, but not only did they not abandon their teammates, they even took turns to carry the two injured teammates on their back, and the whole team arrived at the finishing line together. Congratulations, Company 49!”

Commander Ford went up the stage in delight and received two awards—the Best Company and Best Instructor awards. He then added, “Company 49 is not the best company I have ever trained, but they are the most united company I have ever had under me!”

Joel nodded in agreement as well.

Military training could easily reveal one’s true colors. Most people were selfish, and they were only concerned about their own scores, ignoring the conditions of others.

Company 49 was a team that was totally different from the others. By being united, their team managed to attain a high score although the team mostly consisted of members who initially couldn’t get a high score.

In fact, none of them failed the military training, and the average score for each member was above 75.

During the field training exercise, there were plenty of teams that managed to obtain a high average score. However, other than Company 49, none of the companies were able to ensure that all their members arrived at the destination on time.

When they were in the mountains, the members of other companies were mostly scattered, and only Company 49 kept all their members together throughout the journey. They even saved a few injured and abandoned students from other companies.

Just like a rolling snowball, more and more students gathered together, and in the end, there were over 10 companies that traveled together. Everyone helped one another, and together, they looked mighty. The instructors were astonished as they had never seen such a scene.

Company 49 had truly demonstrated what it meant to be united and also the saying that went, ‘in unity, there is strength’!

Upon recalling what they had been through in the past month, the members from Company 49 had tears rolling down their cheeks. It used to be impossible for many of them to even pass military training.

If it weren’t for Sophia… Unfortunately, she probably had been expelled by Bayside University, and they might not have the opportunity to even meet her again.

Everyone felt sorry for Sophia when they thought about her.

There was a session whereby a representative from the Best Company went on stage for a speech, and Juliete was the representative for Company 49.

When she got on stage, she spoke, “Our company actually started off with extremely poor results, but now, we were able to achieve such wonderful results.

First of all, we would like to thank Commander Carter, all battalion commanders, and all commanding generals for your concerns and guidance. Secondly, we would like to thank Miss Sophia Edwards!”

At the mention of Sophia, everyone began whispering to one another as she was famous in the university!

It’s such a pity…

Upon hearing Sophia’s name, Stanley couldn’t resist the urge to nudge her with his elbow. “Sophia, she’s talking about you!”

Of course, Sophia heard her. Company 49 was able to get such great results, which showed that my effort in all those days has finally paid off!

Juliette looked at all the students present from the stage and emotionally uttered, “Company 49 is mostly made up of girls, so we don’t have any advantage in terms of physical stamina. We had practically zero chances of winning against other companies, let alone against students from Sports University. But luckily, we had Miss Sophia Edwards.

Though she was injured, she trained harder and more seriously than all of us. She was the most serious student in our company, and she was also the one who had the best performance.

She even voluntarily sacrificed her rest time to provide personal training to the weaker students from our company. It was her who told us that Company 49 is a team, and we cannot leave anyone behind.

No matter how tough things go, we cannot give up on any of the students. We didn’t hope for a high individual score; we only hoped for everyone to pass! Although she is no longer part of Company 49, but to us, she’ll always be the soul of Company 49!”

The audiences broke into a rapturous applause. Sophia, who was sitting among the members of Superb Company, blushed.

Erm… I was just showing off when I continued with my training even though I was injured. I dragged the whole team to train just because I was worried that the low results of those weaker students in the team would affect my overall company score and cost me my high score. All in all, I’m really not that noble; I merely knew about some hidden rules…

However, when she heard Juliette’s compliments, she still felt warm and sweet.

After the Best Company award was given out, everyone felt dispirited and depressed. Their final hope was the Best Individual award.

However, everyone had a vague feeling that they had no chance in getting that award.

The Best Individual award would certainly belong to a person who was all-rounded in terms of morality, intelligence, physical strength, and beauty.

The person must have outstanding results and made special contributions in order to win this award. The person must be from Sports University or Superb Company.

The top 3 winners of the Best Individual award were finally announced. The third- and second-place winners would get a custom-made medal.

The first-place winner would get the opportunity to have dinner together with the General, Taylor Murray, and Ethan Winston. The prize for the first-place winner certainly aroused the eagerness of many!

It would be a great honor to be able to have dinner with the three idols! After having the meal, the winner would certainly be well-known all over the world!

During the gaps between each cultural performance, the host would go on stage to introduce the next performance, and at the same time, she would announce one of the winners of the award.

The third-place winner was a boy from Sports University. His results were unbelievable, with almost perfect scores in all categories. However, in the peer rating session where the students were required to rate for one another, some of the students gave him bad reviews due to their jealousy of his usual excellent performance, causing him to be unable to get full marks.

The second-place winner was a boy from the Faculty of Architecture and Construction, who had led everyone to build a road during their rest time. He had also been given bad reviews by other students.

Human nature was always unpredictable. Although everyone usually seemed friendly and caring for one another, some of them would reveal their true colors during anonymous rating sessions.

As for the first-place winner…