At Nam Ngua Shong Lue built a small round house behind his home for worshiping the Father, but no school for teaching the Pahawh. Once he had settled down, however, the people of the surrounding areas spread the word that "Mother of Writing" now lived at Nam Ngua Village. The news about him spread everywhere, so that Hmong people from Phou Moc Village [about two hours walk] and from Long Cheng [thirty minutes walk] asked him to teach them the Pahawh. Shong Lue asked those young men who had already learned at Kiaw Boua to do all the teaching. Those people who were interested in learning had to bring their own notebooks, and each time the young teachers would write a few characters for them to memorize. Then the next time they wrote some more for them until all the characters were completely memorized by the learners. Even though Shong Lue did not have a school for teaching, people were willing to come and learn. until they knew how to write and to read well enough, and then they went home.

Hmong people came to learn the Pahawh in the daytime and at night in increasing numbers. There were not only people who were interested in learning the Pahawh, but also people who flocked together to discuss its history [meaning, significance] as well. Once the people who learned the Pahawh and the people who came to question and discuss believed the message, rumors about Shong Lue's knowledge spread widely. Civilians     and  soldiers  alike became interested in learning the Pahawh. At Nam Ngua village Shong Lue still had the young teachers teach the Second Stage Reduced Version,   that had not yet been systematized [i.e, the Third Stage had not yet been produced or was not yet being taught]. Both soldiers and civilians learned it and spread the word to others, so that Hmong young people from as far away as Na Khang, Ph a Pou Village and Muong Moc areas [access only by plane from these distant areas] all came to learn, group after group, and they were all satisfied with it.

Plot against General Vang Pao

That same year of 1966, the general [Vang Pao] was wounded and had to be hospitalized in Thailand, and there was a group of people who wanted to stage a coup at Long Cheng. At that time the army commanders [in Long Cheng]
said that many Vietnamese troops had reached Green Lake Village [close to the major Hmong center of Sam Thong, 2-3 hours away by military transport] so they took as many weapons and as much ammunition as they could up to most of the hilltop fortified points [on the heights above Long Cheng].

Colonel Youa Vang Lee also divided up his troops to man all of those hilltop fortifications. He ordered Company 3, which was led by Blong Chang, to locate at Phou Moc Mountain, and Companies 4 and 5 took over all the other hilltops. Company 1, of which Chi a Koua Vang was a member, and 'Company, 2 [both companies which remained fully loyal to General Vang Pao] were to remain stationed in Long Cheng, and some of the soldiers from those companies were sent out to patrol at Green Lake Village. These soldiers were at Green Lake Village for two days and checked with the civilians there, but were told that there were no Vietnamese troops in the area at all. The soldiers returned to Long Cheng, where everybody was being told by the chief commanders to stay alert one particular night because the enemy would attack them for sure. That particular night, Chia Koua Vang was stationed as a guard at the airport. About midnight it rained a little and there was a little thunder; then everything was quiet until the next morning.

[In the morning] Chia Koua did not go to bed, but walked to Nam Ngua [about thirty minutes walk] to see Shong Lue. Shong Lue remarked to him [in his enigmatic way] that "If there had been no thunder and lighting, they would probably have attacked Long Cheng." Chia Koua asked him why they should attack Long Cheng? Shong Lue replied, "If you want to know then go to ask them why." Chia Koua returned to Long Cheng and met Vue Khang [a soldier in Company 3, which had been stationed on one of the hills]. He questioned Vue, "I heard people say that the lightning killed someone last night; do you know anything about it?" [Chia Koua had surmised this from what Shong Lue had said]. Vue replied, "The lightning burned two members of our group at Phou Moc so badly that they were taken to the hospital. If you want to see them, come with me." They went to visit the burned soldiers at the hospital and found that the injuries were suffered by the operators of the bazooka 57 and the machine gun.

Chia Koua then climbed up to the military installation on Phou Moc Mountain, where the lighting had burned the two soldiers and found that they had set up the artillery to shell Long Cheng, and he believed that Shong Lue had saved the town [by causing the lighting to burn the soldiers]. He then questioned soldiers of Company 3 as to why their artillery was aimed to shell the forces still in Long Cheng.  His friends said, “We have no idea; we just did as ordered by the company commander.”  From that day on Chia Koua believed in Shong Lue’s ability to protect people.