Da Qing is making his way through the mess of the Clipper, on four legs again, making a point of coming up to everyone he knows, or even suspects, is from that Barge that lao Zhao got sent here from, and giving them a good, thorough sniffing. So when he runs across the guy with the weird sticky-uppy hair he trots up to him and wraps himself around his ankles, sniffing him very thoroughly as he does a slow lap around him.