I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 985: The corpse dumping scene
The villagers immediately started talking in fear, or looked at the village chief.
"God, this is horrible!"

"We will all die..."

"Village Chief, is this all true?"

"These are all rumors!" The door of the church was suddenly pushed open, and a fierce-looking man walked out. He looked at Igor and shouted, "Where did you hear these?"

"It's Mei..." Igor subconsciously wanted to say, "My cousin from Meida told me," but suddenly remembered that the "distant cousin" had escaped secretly, so he raised his hand to cover his mouth.

The fierce man gestured to the officer beside him. Before he could speak, the village chief came over and bowed and smiled apologetically: "Master Matos, don't pay attention to those bastards. They always like to talk nonsense to attract the attention of the girls.

"I'll have someone teach him a lesson. I promise that the migration will be completed as scheduled."

The vicious man glared at him but didn't care.

The village chief heaved a sigh of relief. The official in front of him was from Viseu, and he could arrest Igor or even hang him with just one word.

The villagers were frightened by the official and dared not say anything more. At the request of the village chief, they returned home to pack their luggage.

Igor looked worried, saying to everyone he met, "It's very dangerous to leave the village," "You might die," etc., but most of the villagers carefully avoided him.

Firstly, Igor was too young and his words carried little weight. Secondly, the purpose of the migration was to deal with the hateful Spaniards, so everyone could accept it even if they had to endure some hardship.

In the afternoon, Igor returned home, said hello to his mother, grabbed two pieces of black bread, and went out again, heading towards the barren hill behind the house.

In a shabby thatched hut halfway up the mountain, Igor shared half of the bread with the brown-haired man in his twenties, his "distant cousin," and said anxiously, "Valente, no one believes me. Everyone will leave the village in three days. What should I do?"

Valente munched on the bread, frowned and shook his head: "What can I do? It's over. Everyone is finished."

However, even though he said this, the dim light prevented Igor from noticing the calmness in his eyes.

Yes, Tarente is not a "cousin who escaped from the village of Cariceli" at all, but a Spanish spy lurking in Viseu, now under the command of the French Security Service.

After he arrived at Nehabe Village, he quickly selected Igor, a bold but stubborn man, as his target, and used simple tricks to make the latter believe that they were distant relatives whom he had not seen for a long time.

Later, Tarent told his "cousin" that the people of Carriselli went to Lisbon on the king's order, but there was nothing there. Many people starved to death, and the strong laborers were sold as slaves by the British.

In order to save his life, he escaped from the "resettlement area" and came here by accident.

During this period, Tarent constantly instilled in his "cousin" ideas such as "the British are plotting to destroy Portugal", "France attacked Coimbra because the King of Portugal supported Britain", and "the king just wants people to die and then occupy everyone's land".

Although he only trained for less than a month, because the "textbook" was so good, he only needed to memorize it once, and not only a peasant like Igor, even an educated noble would be fooled.

Tarent swallowed the last bit of food, looked at Igor, and said earnestly: "Don't worry about others, we and my aunt will escape tomorrow afternoon.

"I have some acquaintances in Gata Mountain, and I should be able to get a living from them."

Igor was already at a loss, so he immediately agreed: "Okay, I'll go back and clean up."

Tarent sent him down the mountain and warned him, "If you have relatives or friends you trust, you can persuade them to go with you. Save as many as you can, but don't let the news leak out."

"Okay, I know."

After Tarrant waited for his "cousin" to go far away, he immediately rushed to the north of the village overnight to inform his companions who were waiting there.

The next afternoon, Tarent, his cousin and his mother and son, and Igor's neighbor family of four drove a bullock cart and left Nehabe Village through the forest path.

The journey was smooth until the sun set. Suddenly, Tarent gestured to the people on the oxcart to keep quiet and pointed to the bushes ahead: "Shh - there are people there."

They had escaped and were afraid of being discovered, so they drove the ox cart to a distant mound and hid behind it.

Tarent pretended to look at the bushes ahead and said to the other two adult men in the escape team, "Let's go check out the situation over there. Aunt and the others are waiting here."

The three of them quickly found the place where they had heard the noise before. Sure enough, they saw the light of torches in the bushes, and then heard a man's rude voice.

Tarrant turned around and whispered, "It seems to be English."

Igor and the neighbor uncle suddenly became nervous.

Soon, there were footsteps approaching, like several people moving something.

The three of them immediately lay down in the weeds, and then they heard a low conversation in Portuguese.
"Although Diego and Ricardo were ill and unable to travel, they should not have been killed like this..."

"These damn British people, Bruno was beaten to death just because he refused to hand over the wheat!"

"Keep your voices down! If anyone hears us, we'll be buried here."

"I think it's only a matter of time. More than 20 people have died in just half a month since we left the village. By the time we get to Lisbon, I'm afraid there won't be even half of the people left in the village."

"We really shouldn't have believed those bureaucrats' lies and left the village..."

"But they brought soldiers with them, what can we do?"

"We still had guns at that time, we could have driven them away!"

"Yes, if that were the case, Old Bruno and the others wouldn't have died..."

The more Igor and his neighbors listened, the more frightened they became. They couldn't help but tremble all over. They were secretly glad that they had listened to Tarent's words, otherwise they might have to face the day of burying the body or being buried.

After more than half an hour, the movement in the bushes finally disappeared, and then the fire moved away.

Tarent and the other two waited for a long time before coming out from their hiding place.

Igor carefully lit the candle with a flint and saw a large area of ​​freshly turned soil on the ground.

His pupils shrank, and he suddenly picked up a dead branch and started digging frantically...

The next morning.

Bamelo, a minor noble from Nehabe Village, was listening to Igor and Diado's story at home. He frowned and asked, "Did you really see those bodies clearly?"

"I swear, there are at least four of them, all from Huka Village!"

Bamelo thought for a while with a serious look on his face, then called the butler and ordered, "Go find Mr. Kallova and Mr. Rolitog. Be careful not to let the people from Viseu know."

(End of this chapter)