My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 68

The fact that Sophia had managed to lead Company 49 to a meal with meat in it quickly spreadacross the entire barrack. Most of the companies started following in their footsteps as theygrouped together and took action. They started using skateboards to buy themselves time andstarted 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 notthink 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 anycomments about it. Nevertheless, they did not stop them. Thus, Sophia assumed that they hadagreed 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.Since Nathan was a legend who had his own ways of coming and going around the barracks, Sophiaused him like a plug-in cheat as he could easily acquire insider news in a brief amount of time.“The commanders from the other companies will certainly admire Commander Ford for having abatch 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 frontof 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 forthem. Everyone was exhilarated before they gave Nathan hugs one after another. It was greathaving Nathan!

Nonetheless, they were completely unaware of Nathan's background. Most of them thought thatnone of the commanders had noticed him when they were chattering because Nathan was just alittle boy. Much to their surprise, Nathan was a really intelligent boy whenever he came back with allthe secret information.

While most of the girls were still going on in excitement, Nathan dropped another piece ofgroundbreaking 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 utterdisbelief.

"Are you telling the truth, Nate? Even the eldest Young Master of the Fletcher Family is paying closeattention 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 barrackswould 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 thestudents from the company.”

Dinner together! Immediately, everyone started cheering joyfully. It would definitely be a greatblessing 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 boundlessmotivation. Nathan looked at most of the girls who were very excited, and he thought to himself inhis mind, They sure are easy to fool! Nathan was not excited at all. In fact, he wanted to laugh atthem.

Just then, Sophia called for everyone. “Alright, guys. That's enough cheering about. Among theseveral hundreds of companies, only three companies will be awarded the prize; it won't necessarilybe 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 afew 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 hardenough, how are we supposed to defeat the other companies and win the chance of having dinnertogether with the commanding general?”

Joel did pay more attention toward the 49th Company. Nonetheless, the remaining words were justnonsense that Sophia had told Nathan to say. However, the effects of the bluff proved to beextraordinary; 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 uptheir quilts into perfect cubes in order to score the highest for internal affairs. They wanted thecommanding general to notice them!

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

Was it because he was the youngest Senior Colonel across the entire Cethos; his identity as theYoung 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 theForbidden City; he had a height of 1.9 meters; and the amount of money he had was comparable tothe 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 beinsidious and dark.

True enough, there was an insider among the 49th Company. News about the commanding generalawarding the best company with a dinner had spread across the entire barrack not long afterNathan's bluff!

Moreover, some had even added to that saying—whoever scored the top three highest pointswould 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 hadmade 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 thinkingabout the chance of dining with him. Unfortunately, they were not able to pull a few strings. Nowthat 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 expandtheir 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 datingsomebody as well. Even though he had his fair share of love affairs, he never once admitted to anyone 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 companycommander had then reported it to the battalion commanders, and it was reported to theregimental commanders before it reached Joel's ears.

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

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

Apart from having dinner with him, they could even add him on Instagram?! The entire training fieldwas 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 ifshe was the one who scored full marks? Would she have to have dinner alone with Joel? Thatwouldn'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. Therewere less indolent students, and the 49th Company became even more diligent than they used tobe as well.

Nonetheless, students did not necessarily score high marks for their diligence. Most of the studentswere hardworking, but they did not have impressive scores—that was because there were hiddendemerit 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 sneakinto the computer room. She had video calls with Michael in order to know more about the hiddendemerit points in military training.

“Chica, remember to wake up at seven o'clock sharp in the morning. You have to clock in at thecafeteria before seven thirty to get your breakfast. Whoever doesn't get their breakfast on time willget 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 thecommanders see you. Also, you have to obey all the rules and regulations in the barracks—don'tquestion me why.

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