老乡 (lǎo xiāng): 仲間町人

At Beijing Railway Station, I heard someone speaking on the phone in our local dialect. Upon asking, it turned out he was a fellow townsman from the same county as me.

When I first arrived in Guangzhou to work, I didn't know anyone. Fortunately, a few fellow townsmen showed me around and even helped me find a place to live.

On Mid-Autumn Festival, a few of us fellow townsmen gathered in a rented room, cooked some hometown dishes, and chatted about our childhood while eating.

In a supermarket abroad, I suddenly heard someone greeting in our hometown dialect. I turned around and saw it was actually a fellow townsman.

Dad said that when he came to Shanghai to seek his fortune as a young man, he owed it to a fellow townsman's help that he found his first job at a factory.