Chapter 71 opens with the peasant asking the King if he remembers their first meeting. The King asks the peasant to be his witness that day. The peasant tells the King that he was raped by a customer of an opium merchant. The opium merchant was injured when the peasant swung his sword, but the King saved him and the other women. He also tells the peasant that the opium merchant who raped him was the same man who poisoned him that night. This is not true, the peasant says, and the King should not be swayed by the peasant's words. He should show the peasant the evidence, he says, because there is no proof that the perfumist was in the opium market that day, and there is nothing to hide, if he is not guilty. He says, however, that the wound on his stomach is unreasonable, because the wound was made by the woman who raped the peasant. The fact that the peasant played a joke on the peasant does not mean that the ledger is false. The ledger states that the day of the opium trade was May 15th, and that 80 silver coins were paid to the opium dealer.