My Dreamy Old Husband

The buses rode deep into the mountains for about another hour before they finally saw signs of human presence. A majestic olive-drab gate that stood concealed among the mountains opened before their eyes, revealing rows after rows of simple yet neatly arranged barracks inside.

This place was where they would spend a month.

As Sophia looked at the surrounding mountains and rivers, she suddenly recognized this place. This place was Audistin’s hunting ground!

This hunting ground was the only actual hunting ground in Bayside City, and many beasts were raised inside for the hunting pleasure of the scions of noble families. In other words, there were lots of wild animals nearby.

Sh*t, this is going to be serious! thought Sophia to herself. She had thought of climbing over the wall at midnight to wander nearby, but who would dare to sneak out under such circumstances?

Luckily, the military camp was situated next to Audistin’s ground, which was her home turf.

Sophia led Nathan into the military training camp in the best of spirits. Everything seemed very new to her, including the spacious training ground, the rows of barracks, and the olive-drab color that came and went around them. However, Nathan seemed to be unhappy; perhaps it was because he had not gotten enough sleep on the bus, for he kept pouting his lips.

Sophia soon found her barracks, which accommodated twenty people. Inside the barracks were bunk beds and two rows of desks with a desk for each person. On each desk was a tooth mug with toothpaste inside, whereas below each desk was a thermos bottle. Instead of being air-conditioned, the barracks had only a few large fans.

The ladies were still complaining about the barracks’ poor living conditions. Even the civilian students, who mostly came from well-to-do middle-class families, had never borne such hardships, let alone children of wealthy families.

Nathan should have been staying in a male dormitory, but for some reason, he was assigned to the same barracks as Sophia’s; he took the bunk above hers.

As Sophia put her stuff in their proper places, she muttered to herself, “Does Michael really have no qualms about putting his son in here?”

After putting her stuff in place, Sophia went out to have a look. There were many barracks here, for every barracks could accommodate twenty people, and there were at least four thousand new students in this batch. Therefore, the barracks covered an extensive area.

They had half a day to rest, recuperate, and get used to the place. Wearing a pair of slippers, Sophia took Nathan for a leisurely stroll around the military training camp.

placed under her desk in the barracks to

guided Sophia around the place with ease and introduced every

have them do me a favor by writing a sick note for

lose your way. This place is big,

so it was almost impossible to climb over the wall. Besides, this place was easily guarded but difficult to attack; people could only get in and out

leave the military training camp.

Nathan

the gate with live ammunition stayed perfectly still as though they didn’t know that a kid was swiping his card

exited the camp, a Second Lieutenant came riding a military

before it arrived at a stretch of open land, which seemed to be a large vegetable farm

camp’s vegetable farm? Sophia

it was only natural that the troops cleared out a plot of land to plant some vegetable

expected, there were soldiers growing vegetables on

into one of the polytunnels without saying a word. Sophia was puzzled as to why he did so, but on second thought,

was suddenly overwhelmed by the sight of countless big watermelons

inside the polytunnel was covered in sandy soil, and heat lamps were used to resemble the environment best-suited for growing watermelons. As a result, the watermelons here were

it turned out, they were here to pick

carry just fine. Sophia picked a few big watermelons as well. She was quite an expert at picking watermelons, for her

the watermelons into the car and even drove

certain that Nathan was related to the Fletcher Family of

the watermelons into halves, Sophia and Nathan ate one half

all over after eating the watermelon. She wiped her mouth and asked Nathan, “Tell me, kid, how did you know there’s a vegetable farm over there? Also, who gave you that

wore it around his neck all the time; little did she expect