Wang Houa Ber went to get Shong Lue and his son Ge Yang and took them to Kiaw Boua. On January 15th, 1965, at Kiaw Boua, Shong Lue married Bau Moua from Ban Xong village. Her father was Gnia Vue Moua and her mother Mai Thao. After he married Bau Moua and lived there for a while, people asked him to continue teaching them the Pahawh. He told them to find one person from each of twelve clans to learn and become teachers, and they did as they were told. Then he began teaching them   the Second Stage Reduced Version [a simplification of what he had taught before] on April 15th, 1965. Then the word spread widely that the "Mother of Writing" was teaching the Pahawh at Kiaw Boua, and Hmong and Khmu' people gathered to learn it in large numbers. More and more of the Hmong and the Khmu' were interested in learning the Second Stage Reducea Version which he taught at Kiaw Boua. Both civilians and soldiers admired him, accepting his religious teaching and his teaching of the Pahawh, and some people became more considerate and helpful to each other. But other people were opposed to him.

Opposition from Nao Pou Lee

One day some soldiers found a nest of bumble bees [a very large species with a dangerous sting] and told their commander Nao Pou Lee about it. Nao Pou, who was in command over all the Kiaw Boua area [and now one of those opposed to Shong Lue's movement], saw an opportunity [to discredit Shong Lue] and wanted Shong Lue's believers to be stung by the bees, so he made an offer to Kao Vang [one of Shong Lue's students] that if Shong Lue's group could smoke out[the underground nest] and dig out the edible grubs [a delicacy] safely in the daytime [much more dangerous than at night] without anyone receiving a single sting, he would believe that they had a God, and he would pay them a sum of 200,000 kip [$400, a very large sum at that time and place). But if anyone was stung by the bees, he would call them all a group of liars and not pay them anything. Kao Vang told Shong Lue what Nao Pou said. Shong Lue suggested to Kao Vang that if what he said was true they should find witnesses [respected people who would go and verify with Nao Pou what he had said and then verify that Shong Lue's followers had followed the agreement]. The witnesses would make sure Nao Pou could not back down on his word. He knew Nao Pou was offering  this incentive deceitfully, and did not intend to pay them, but if there were witnesses, it would be all right. They could just go and smoke out the nest and get-the grubs without being stung.

Kao Vang found respected people to witness the agreement and sent a group of ten people to smoke out and dig up tbe bees, and bring the grubs back safely. Once they brought Nao Pou tbe grubs be refused to pay, but because of the verification by the witnesses he finally paid them, even though he did not have that much money with which to pay. He docked the soldiers' salaries and used that money for paying tbe amount in full [a practice also followed at times by others in the Hmong chain of command]. This caused a problem between Nao Pou and his soldiers, so he finally turned over the position of commanding the Kiaw Boua area to Fong Vang[his second in command, who had earlier been in the party which was. sent by Vang Pao to look into Shong Lue's situation. Nao Pou returned to Long Cheng.]

Help from General Vang Pao

During this period, both the Hmong and the Khmu' populations in communist-controlled areas were aware that the Royal Lao Government was allowing Sbong Lue to teach the Pahawh freely at Kiaw Boua, so they escaped from different places to join the people at Kiaw Boua and learn the Pahawh there. As there were so many students learning both Pahawh Hmong and Pahawh Khmu', Shong Lue realized that they lacked materials [notebooks, pencils, pens, paper, etc.) for teaching and learning. He hoped that General Vang Pao would want to support the Pabawh for the Hmong and Khmu' languages, so he boarded the aircraft from Kiaw Doua to Long Cheng, to ask for help. [There was an extensive network of small planes between military airstrips during the war.] On his first trip he stayed at Yong Houa Yang's house [an uncle] for two days and then went to see General Vang Pao face to face. He told him all about his project and the need for help. He was kindly given a sum of cash to take back and to be used for tbe project. The general's money was very useful for a while but it ran out, and he went back to Long Cheng to ask for help from the general the second time. Upon his arrival, the general said to him, "I already gave Fong the money to be given to you. Why don't you go back and he will give it to you." Shong Lue returned to Kiaw Boua and asked Fong as he was was told, but there was no answer; he then stopped any asking anymore.

Shong Lue predicts a communist attack

The communists attacked Kiaw Boua. By the supernatural illumination he had, Shong Lue knew in advance what was going to happen, and from what direction they were going to be attacked by the communists. He told the soldiers to be ready, and events took place on time and in the way he had showed them. With his tips, the soldiers could never be defeated, and no casualties were incurred. This made people respect and believe him even more. But at the same time, there were also people who made the accusation that he knew all about these things because he had a radio for contact with the Vietnamese.

As this bad rumor circulated, Fong Vang said it could very well cause greater problems if Shong Lue stayed at Kiaw Boua, so Fong asked him to go to Long Cheng. But You Vue [one of the elders who believed in Shong Lue] killed a pig to provide a feast to beg Fong Vang to let Shong Lue stay at Kiaw Boua, and he was therefore allowed to stay at Kiaw Boua a little bit longer. That continued until 1966, when Fong commanded a plane to take Shong Lue and all of his family to visit [his nephew Colonel] Yong Chue Yang and his family now living in Long Cheng [at Yong Chue's invitation]. Yong Chue was not home at the time when Shong Lue's family arrived, but they stayed at his home anyway. They had been at Long Cheng for a week when Yong Chue and [his neighbor] Chia Koua Vang [one of the authors of this book], who had been out in the front lines near Na Khang Village, returned home.

Sbong Lue can not return to Kiaw Boua

Shong Lue visited Yong Chue for a month and was ready to go back home. As be waited for a ride on an aircraft to go back to Kiaw Boua, someone was preventing him from boarding any aircraft and returning home [not authorizing bim to board]. One day after he waited until noon for a place on an aircraft and was not able to get on as usual, he went to Nao Bee Yang's home [Yong Chue's younger brother, Shong Lue's nephew, an officer in the army]. He sat down and cried. Nao Bee wondered what the matter was, and asked "Uncle, what are you sad about?" Shong Lue replied, "Son, I was commissioned [by God] to bring a message to you, the Hmong people, but you Hmong still unjustly accuse me to the General of being a Vietnamese. What shall I do?" Nao Bee asked, "Tbat isn't true, is it uncle?" He said "It is true. Some one has just came from Kia Boua and reported to the general, as you will know when dark comes."

Nao Bee did not yet believe this. But before it was very dark, Blia Yao Thao [a former neighbor in Vietnam] came to see Shong Lue and said to him, "Brother-in-law, someone came and reported to the general that you are with the enemy, that you have come here to spy on us. But as far as I know you are not doing that, are you, Brother-in-law?" Shong Lue replied "I'm here to visit only, but it is all right if Hmong people turn against me." Shong Lue realized that it did not matter where he lived, that people would always find something to accuse him of, so he decided to stay in Long Cheng but asked Yong Chue what would be best.

Yong Chue could not predict the future, but agreed that it was a good idea for him not to return to Kiaw Boua, and said he would let Fong know. Shong Lue continued to stay with Yong Chue after he decided not to go back to Kiaw Boua, and because Chia Koua Vang and Yong Chue Yang were neighbors, Shong Lue and Chia Koua came to know each other. Shong Lue did not stay with Yong Chue very long, however. He asked if it would be possible for him to build a house at Nam Ngua [just outside Long Cheng proper] with Pa Yer Xiong [a relative]. Yong Chue felt that it would relieve a lot of stress for Shong Lue and his family to be on their own, and he agreed for him to build his own home at Nam Ngua.