This man is a dentist who lives in Xizhou. He was very curious about us and worked to communicate with us despite his very limited english and our even more limited chinese. He also helped us find the main road once we got to Xizhou. He went to another part of the boat when the ferry operator was pretending to charge people a higher rate because (we assume) he did not want to take part in the charade. Everywhere we went in China, real "salt of the earth" people were willing to help. We felt very lucky.

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