My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 59

Sophia was perplexed, but Nathan seemed to be scared of this man, for he kept hiding behind herwithout speaking.

Joel stretched out his hand to pat Nathan's head, asking, “I heard that you went picking somewatermelons in the vegetable farm just now?”

Nathan didn't answer Joel though, for he seemed to be truly terrified of the latter. Despite hiscommanding presence at home, he looked like a dog with its tail between its legs in front of Joel onthis day.

Joel was indeed very intimidating, for all ladies in the military training camp probably admired andfeared him at the same time.

They wanted to get noticed by the person who was both the Fletcher Family's eldest son and theyoungest Senior Colonel of Cethos; at the same time, however, they were afraid of the suffocatingand intimidating aura that emanated from him. Only those who had steeled themselves in actualbattlefields would have such an imposing manner.

Sophia quickly shielded Nathan with her body as she eased the tension in the air by saying, “Hello,General. This kid is a little shy, and he doesn't like to speak.”

Joel stopped embarrassing Nathan further; he slowly rose to his feet, standing before her andlooking like an immeasurably high mountain with his height of 190 centimeters. Then, as a probinglook flickered in his eyes, Sophia felt like she was treading on thin ice. She was so frightened thather back was covered in sweat.

Joel looked her up and down with a stern face before he suddenly broke into a smile. “You must beSophia, right? I'm Michael's cousin, Joel.”

Oh my god, so Michael really is a direct descendant of the Fletcher Family! I never expected him tocome from such an influential background as he seems so inconspicuous and unassuming. Besides,why would Joel know my name?

Why is Nate so terrified of him? Since Michael is a Fletcher, why couldn't his name be found amongthe Fletchers? Things are so complicated in an influential family! Sophia thought to herself.

Having decided to speak less, she answered reverently, “I'm Sophia Edwards, General.”

Joel nodded as he said in a relaxed tone, “I never expected Michael to marry earlier than I do. It'stoo bad that he didn't tell me about his wedding, or I would have given you two a great present.”Sophia complained in her mind, There wasn't a f*cking wedding at all, for we merely registered formarriage!

She answered simple-mindedly, “I'll make sure to tell you next time!”

Joel was dumbstruck for a moment before he laughed. “You two should go back quickly, for themilitary training will start officially in an hour. We're a family, so let me know if you have anydifficulties.”

Sophia replied with a nod, “Thank you, General.”

With that, Joel got back into the military vehicle and left, whereas Sophia headed off in theinfirmary’s direction with Nathan.

As she was on her way, she recalled and pondered over the conversation she had with Joel just now.It's so miraculous that the cool and distant commanding general spoke to me in such a mildmanner, she thought to herself.

“Hmph!” Nathan, who had clung to her thigh while huddling up in fright a while ago, was aloofagain as usual. He warned Sophia with a snort, “Joel is not an easy person to deal with. Stay awayfrom him in the future, but if you meet him by chance, just play the fool like what you did just now.”“Huh? Did I look like a fool just now?”

"Yeah, you looked so silly that I cant even bring myself to look at you.”

“You looked even sillier than I did!"

The two of them argued with each other without a pause as they headed for the infirmary...

Sophia went back to her dorm in her slippers and sat down before changing into her military shoes.As soon as she set her feet on the ground, she screamed, “Aaah!”

Startled, the ladies in the barracks looked in her direction, only to see her lying on the floor andclinging to her foot as she screamed. Her olive-drab socks were stained red with blood, and theshoes she had just worn had a few nails and broken bits of glass in them. Not only that, but theshoes were also soaked in blood all over!

Everyone turned pale with fright at the sight of the scene. Who would have been so cruel as to putsuch vicious things in her shoes?

She might have her leg crippled from such severe bleeding!

The ladies discussed it among themselves as they carried her to the infirmary, whereas Nathanfollowed closely behind them all the way.

As she was carried away, her blood-stained shoes were left in their place. The ladies discussed theincident with each other, but no one knew who the person that did this to Sophia was. Sinceeveryone had either been discussing the military training or catching up on sleep in their beds justnow, no one actually noticed what had happened.

The incident soon startled Commander Ford, who came over and checked out the scene of theincident before going to the infirmary to check on Sophia.

Sophia's entire foot was bandaged with gauze. She lay on the infirmary bed with a look of agony,whereas Nathan sat silently at her bedside.

The medical officer said that the injury in her foot was too severe. Even though her bones weren'taffected by the injury, she would likely be unable to undergo training as normal.

If she couldn't join the training, she would get zero credit for military training, which would widenthe gap between her and everybody else. If she wanted to graduate from university smoothly, shehad to redouble her efforts. Furthermore, she would have to win national awards every year to makeup for her zero credit for military training.

Commander Ford's face was as black as thunder, for he didn't expect such an incident to happenwithin the ranks of his company on the first day of military training.

Just as he was getting all distressed, Sophia struggled out of her sickbed with her face as pale as asheet. She pleaded, “Please let me carry on with the training, Commander. I can do it!"

Commander Ford immediately refused her insistence, saying, “No. Your injury is too severe, so youcan't go on with the training!”

The medical officer chimed in, “It's only a flesh wound, so she can carry on with her training. It's justthat she'll be in agony.”

Sophia immediately said, “I'm not afraid of pain! Commander, please let me carry on with thetraining!”

With that, she slowly stood up as Juliette Sanders helped her by the arm. As she set her foot on theground, she hissed in pain with her face looking deathly pale, yet she gritted her teeth andmanaged to hang in there. After she managed to keep her feet, she gave Commander Ford a weak,pale smile as she said, “Look! Didn't I manage to stand up?”

Commander Ford looked at her face—which was covered in beads of sweat because of the pain—before shifting his gaze to her bleeding foot. In the end, however, he agreed to let her carry on withthe training.

He knew how important the credits for military training were to a student. If she couldn't get creditsfor military training, she would most likely be unable to graduate. As the number one university ofCethos, Bayside University imposed harsh requirements on its students. Batches of students couldn'tgraduate from the university every year as they failed to obtain enough credits.

I'll let her carry on with the training as long as she can endure the pain! Commander Ford thoughtto himself.

With that, Sophia hobbled out of the infirmary. Not only did she attend the military training’sopening ceremony on time in the afternoon, but she also stood more upright than everyone else.Commander Ford kept complimenting her since she had risen very much in his opinion.

The next day after they arrived at the military training camp, the training officially started under thescorching hot sun.

The military training went on in the morning as usual despite the temperature approaching 35degrees Celsius. The group of delicate ladies sweated profusely as even the best sunscreen couldn'tprevent the sun from making their skins go sallow.

Many ladies fainted on the first day of training. All the fainted ladies received the same treatment inthe military training camp—they got dragged away and must rejoin their units immediately afterregaining consciousness.

The students complained incessantly in the face of such harsh military training. However, all theycould do was complain, for they didn't dare to stand up to Commander Ford at all. If he told themto head east, no one would dare to head west.

As the training was in full swing at the training field, the lecturers and sophomore students incharge of chaperoning the freshmen stayed out of the sun in a shady spot at a side.

The actual role of these lecturers and sophomore students was to prepare iced drinking water alongwith other things that served to relieve the summer heat. Moreover, they had to act promptly uponnoticing someone suffering from heatstroke lest he or she was dragged away by the officers of themilitary training camp in an utterly embarrassing manner. After all, these students had a sense ofshame; it would be bad if they had psychological scars after being dragged away so embarrassingly.Since it was officially the first day of their military training, all the students learned were the mostbasic drill commands, such as standing at attention, standing at ease, and crouching down.

It took only a morning before the students began feeling indescribably miserable. The case wasespecially true when they stood at attention, which required them to stand for nearly an hour withtheir bodies tensed up all over. Under the hot weather and high temperature, many ladies fainted asthey stood. Furthermore, Commander Ford was behind them, literally kicking those who didn'tstand up to standard out of the ranks. However, no one dared to speak up against him.

As they were standing at attention under the sun, Nathan ate iced watermelon at a shady spot at aside.

At this very moment, Sophia finally realized what a cruel thing it was when Gary said lightly backthen that Nathan would be eating watermelon at one side while they had military training.