Jiang Yun's new job is to be the second secretary of Su Guorui, deputy director of the personnel department of a certain department, and is responsible for receiving visitors.

The visitors received in this department are all staff members of various directly affiliated agencies. Not only are they required to be observant, but their words and actions when welcoming and seeing off guests are also required to conform to diplomatic etiquette.

Therefore, before officially taking up the job, Jiang Yun received a week-long etiquette training.

Etiquette training is conducted at the Aviation Academy, which is a place that specializes in training pilots and stewardesses.

After several years of living in the military compound, Jiang Yun could easily tell who was a military child at the Aviation Academy, and whether their parents were in the Air Force or the Army. Besides differences in accent and living habits, she also looked at their experiences and behavior.

In just a few days of training, Jiang Jun was able to summarize many interesting discoveries every day, and wrote them all down on the letter paper - now he doesn't have to worry about what to write in the letter to Chen Yuanwu.

On the first day of training, instructor Ji Xiaoyan was amazed at Jiang Yun's Mandarin: "Xiao Jiang, you don't even have an accent!"

Jiang Jun thought to herself, I can speak a foreign language fluently and there is no accent at all when switching between the two languages. This is all thanks to the fact that she has been attending a bilingual kindergarten since she was a child. For her, English is just like speaking an extra dialect. The language center of her brain can switch freely and she does not need to think and express herself.

The other flight attendants were interested in the placement of Jiang Yun's hands and the gestures he used when bowing. "You look good this way. I think it's even better than what we're teaching you now!"

Jiang Yun's hands were naturally folded and placed at the dantian, half bowing at a 45-degree angle. Ji Xiaoyan's method was to place both hands on the outside of the thighs, bowing closer to a 60-degree angle.

Of course, these are all whispers, said in private.

They just studied the materials in the college textbooks seriously, and no one dared to question them.

Therefore, everyone envies the pilots because they salute in a very generous and dignified manner.

Jiang Jun didn't say anything. The etiquette training she had received was strict etiquette for aristocratic ladies. Every gesture and movement was measured and tested with numbers and angles, accurate to one decimal place, and then actual subtle adjustments were made according to each person's height, weight and body shape.

The etiquette she was learning now was not difficult for her. What was difficult was her eyes and expression. She had no way of expressing her revolutionary enthusiasm.

The homework that Ji Xiaoyan assigned to Jiang Yun was to "laugh out the love for the motherland and the admiration for the great men". It had to be checked before class the next day. If it was not qualified, it would be recorded in the file and reported to their unit.

There was a flight attendant who had just started working, her name was Yang Shuangshuang. Her parents worked in administrative positions at the local level, and she was put in the job through her uncle who worked in the Air Force, who asked someone to put in a word.

Seeing Jiang Jun being harshly criticized by Ji Xiaoyan, Yang Shuangshuang naturally put Jiang Jun in the same camp as her: "Xiao Jiang, where are you from? I think you have a nice smile."

Jiang Jun smiled back, "I'm from the Equipment Department. I'm on training leave and will be back to work in a few days."

Yang Shuangshuang was a little disappointed: "I thought you were here to be a flight attendant, so I would have a companion."

Jiang Yun also fell in love with this gentle and kind girl at first sight: "When I leave, I will leave you my contact information. If you have the chance to visit Beijing in the future, I will take you out to play."

Girls from local areas tend to be submissive, while the children of military chiefs tend to be somewhat overbearing and arrogant.

There is no way. In the 1970s, flight attendants were a profession that was somewhat mysterious and very enviable. First of all, when selecting flight attendants, the requirements for appearance were very high. Therefore, being able to become a flight attendant meant that this person must be a great beauty picked from thousands of miles away.

Staying in the temporary dormitory of the Aviation College at night, Yang Shuangshuang pulled Jiang Jun to practice smiling in front of the mirror, holding a standard photo of a "smile full of revolutionary enthusiasm" in her hand for comparison. Sometimes she said it was not okay, and sometimes she said it was just like that, for fear that Jiang Jun would not pass the test the next day.

After laughing for about an hour, Jiang Jun stopped to rest and rubbed his facial muscles, which had become stiff from laughing.

Yang Shuangshuang could only be heard sighing, "Ah, those two lucky girls are so lucky. Their father is a pilot, and now they are flight attendants. I heard that the cabin crew is planning to arrange for them to study foreign languages ​​at a foreign language college, and then they will fly international routes."

In the mid-1970s, China had just begun to resume exchanges with the world, and passengers flying abroad were usually leaders carrying out diplomatic missions.

So Yang Shuangshuang was particularly envious: "Xiao Jiang, maybe they can meet the Chairman or the Prime Minister in the future!"

Jiang Jun desperately pulled his lips up and down and left and right, then raised his eyelids and looked at Yang Shuangshuang in the mirror.

To be honest, being a flight attendant was no longer an enviable job in her original time and space. The workload was extremely heavy, and adjusting to the jet lag was also very tiring. There were many jobs that paid more than flight attendants and were much easier.

Especially now, passenger planes are all small and medium-sized aircraft produced in the Soviet Union, and the safety factor still has a certain shadow in Jiang Yun's mind.

However, Yang Shuangshuang is so cute, she can help her: "Xiao Yang, you can start learning foreign languages ​​by yourself now."

As more and more diplomatic ties are established with foreign countries and more and more air routes are available, the demand for flight attendants who can speak foreign languages ​​will inevitably increase dramatically. It is definitely beneficial to learn a foreign language well in advance.

Yang Shuangshuang wasn't so confident: "I don't dare. My boss will say I'm not at ease."

What’s even more difficult is that there are no foreign language textbooks or teachers, so where should we start learning?

Jiang Jun was speechless. She had seen two vinyl records for learning foreign languages ​​at Chen's house, but unfortunately the needle of the player was broken, so she couldn't listen to them.

"There must be someone in the academy who knows foreign languages. You can secretly go and become their apprentice!" Jiang Jun encouraged Yang Shuangshuang to find out information. "Real good teachers don't hide anything. They like hardworking students. They're not afraid of students learning, but they're afraid of students not learning!"

Yang Shuangshuang's eyes lit up: "Really?" Then she became a little sad: "Will people say I'm overestimating my abilities?"

Jiang Jun encouraged him again, "Your pronunciation is very standard. When you first read the Chinese Pinyin, it was especially standard. You will definitely have no problem learning a foreign language. I heard that Chinese Pinyin was adapted from the pronunciation of English letters."

Yang Shuangshuang became excited again and started to discuss with Jiang Jun the benefits and expectations of learning a foreign language.

Jiang Jun herself didn't realize that she had begun to take the initiative to make friends, instead of hiding quietly in the corner like before, waiting for others to discover her existence.