James’ aunty drove us to Ruixing, which was nice to not have to do the public transport thing, and also interesting to see how a woman can make it as a driver in these chaotic cities too! She had a flash car, James’ uncle is a doctor. Ruixing village is one of many down a little one lane, well made and maintained, concrete street. Kind of what we might think of as a driveway with lots of houses off it, its just got lots of very self contained, defined, villages off it, with farmland (vegetables) between. I was surprised that all the villages are very regular in their form. The houses are laid out in a rigid grid pattern, rather than an organic little village with houses all higgledy piggledy like I was expecting. So when
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