Book 2: Novice, Chapters 4-6, 'Roommates,' 'Shaolin's Champion,' and 'The Sacred and the Profane' Summary

It is two months before the monks visit Matt in his room. Deqing and Cheng Hao come to see him and ask him how much they might get for various Shaolin weapons and items if they sell them in Japan. They will be touring soon, going to Japan first, and they want money so that they can bribe government officials to give them passports, since the government has seized theirs' out of fear that they might try to defect to another country. In fact, it is the fear that the government may think they are trying to defect that has stopped the monks from coming to see Matt all this time.

Matt makes the mistake...