Small village or not, Jeff could not help but find the entire society of theirs interesting. To think that such creatures existed in this world, he almost wanted to take some more time to study all of them and perhaps see abut figuring out a way to communicate though he wondered if there would be much point to it. After exploring a bit more, Jeff finally came across the old man whose beard covered his entire body. 
'I guess shaving here isn't a found practice', he thought to himself. Though to be fair he did contemplate growing a beard himself a few times but never actually committed to the idea. 

"oh, were you the one that saved me?" Jeff responded back to the old man politely. "If so, I thank for that."
 Crazy beard or not, this guy seemed to be one who actually saved along with being the best bet on getting some answers around here.