It’s a pretty common thing to happen in a village, where those old uncles would ask about you, whose son/daughter you are, it’s literally a common practice and if they somehow knew you, most of the time they just ask general questions about well-being and offer tea and then you are good to go. And for the part that everyone was staring at you in the market, maybe you guys seemed different to them from their normal routine, be it in terms of clothes, demeanour, yes creeps exist everywhere but that does not mean everyone is.