Wig shop next to the cancer hospital

The three walls of this room are full of wigs, some are used to try on to determine the hair style, and some are ready to be taken by customers, and a cabinet reads "Special Sterile Net for Chemotherapy". The rest of the space was made up of a few large chairs, so it looked a little narrow. After explaining the intention with Master Wang, he called us to sit down. There is also an aunt who sits next to her. It looks like she is about sixty years old. Her name is Liu Feng (a pseudonym). She read the newspapers of the previous days and made a special trip to find Master Wang to make a wig. She looks very spirited and has short hair. I thought she was not a patient.

"Hey, I have been sick for several years. This hair is re-growth after chemotherapy." She told me, "This is not spring. Some classmates are gathering something, I am thinking about making a wig." There are many customers who come to the newspaper like her, and Master Wang said that he is also very encouraged. The wig shop, which is located next to the oncology hospital, has made wigs for a large number of patients who lost their hair due to chemotherapy for many years, and is therefore well known among cancer patients.

Master Wang told us that their highlight is that they can customize the design of the hair for the guests, and they can also take it back for maintenance. "You can't worry about buying a wig. When the guest comes, we must first communicate with him to see what kind of hair he wants and see his previous photos." As he said, Liu Feng took out her mobile phone and found her previous photo. "Well, it’s quite spiritual! I’m full of heads and my chin is sharp.” He suggested.

Wang Feng is 55 this year, his hair is already silver, his hair is fine, he is wearing a jeans black jacket, standing on the open space of the door, bending his waist and playing with the wig on the shelf, repeatedly spraying water, trimming, and a strand of hair on the ground. Just like giving a real person a haircut.

In the process, several pairs of customers have come in. A pretty girl with a hat was accompanied by her sister. She tried several wigs against the previous photos and carefully looked at herself in the mirror. A middle-aged woman was accompanied by her husband to pick up the wig. She hadn't started chemotherapy yet. She asked the clerk: "Can you wear a wig to shave your hair? Leave some, I can't accept it." There is also a grandmother, accompanied by his wife. She wants a man-made wig, but the clerk tells her that the wig here is made of real hair. She said that she couldn't accept the hair of others and quickly left.

Master Wang finally cut the wig and tried to wear hair with Liu Feng in the area next to the haircut. It is much more spacious, just like the average barber shop, several mirrors and several large chairs. The wig has a magical effect, although it is only on the top of the head, but after wearing it, the whole person does not look the same. The old grandmother is a lot younger. There was a little length behind the hair. Master Wang helped her with the final pruning, and beat her to tell her that she could find him to cut it later. The first step could not be too short. At the door, Master Wang took out a bunch of flowers and gave it to Liu Feng. "I wish you a good mood every day!"

At first, Wang Feng was doing hairdressing. It was also famous for many years of hard work. There are several hairdressers in his own. The Peking University Cancer Hospital opened about 20 years ago and was originally an ordinary barber shop. Due to the special location, sometimes the patient will wear a wig, and Master Wang will trim it and cut it. "That is a wig that I can buy at random. We can see it at a glance. Sometimes I chat, I ask, this is fake. How do you still wear the wig? The patient vomits, they want to be like that, but they can't do it." Such a guest sees more, Master Wang gradually understands that they need a more realistic wig.

Once, a customer wore a wig bought elsewhere to find him to cut a haircut. The wig was made of chemical fiber. "I said this is made of chemical fiber. It can't be burned or dyed. You can't cut what you want. She said that it would be a simple fix. I said yes, I am going to pick up her hair and take it down. She said don't move, you find me a single room." The girl went in alone, closed the door, when it came out Wearing a hat, handing the wig to Master Wang, even her boyfriend refused to let in, not willing to be seen her bald look. "At this time, I thought, wigs are more important to them. You don't think about these things, you are getting more and more, you think more, and your heart is touched. Then I thought, I can make it with the original. The same, let others can't see, the real hair, not fake, how good."

Since then, Wang Feng has been running all over the country, learning the techniques of making wigs, designing wigs, looking for high-quality hair sources, and collaborating with specialized factories to crochet hair. It took many years to build a hair purchase from the end to the final sale. The complete chain, he can fully grasp the quality of the wig.

There used to be a father and a daughter who came to see him from Xinjiang. His father didn't have long hair and wore a hat. Because her daughter didn't have long hair, she was bullied by her classmates at school, grabbed her wig and played a lot of schools. The little girl was thirteen or four years old, and she was behind her father. She was born, Master Wang said, "I was honest when I was a child. I knew what it was like to be bullied. At that time, I made up my mind to give her a good wig." That year his technique was not perfect. He said to the little girl, "Now I can help you trim the wig. You will need it later. I will do it next year." The little girl came together. In the third year, the system of Master Wang has been perfected in the second year. He made three wigs for this little girl.

Over the past few years, Wang Feng has focused on making wigs and completely abandoned the hairdressing business. And his customers are mainly cancer patients, compared to ordinary people to buy wigs for the sake of good looks, cancer patients are more just to find their own. "Some of them are sick, they don't want their parents to know, they are afraid of being hit; there are also mothers in their thirties who don't want their children to know; others have long hair fluttering, now they have no hair, they can't face it. This reality; there is also the kind of illness that has passed away at a young age, and the parents made a wig for him to make him look good when he walked..."

Master Wang also often encounters patients who have just gotten sick and are not yet able to accept the fact that their mood is very low. "There was a patient a few days ago, the husband accompanied him, shaved his head in the store, and when he pushed down, her tears came down. The husband also cried, and the staff in the store cried."

Therefore, now Wang Feng feels that he is not only doing wigs, but also often healing patients. Guests often seem to have nothing on the surface, but once they talk, they will find that they are really anxious. At this time, Master Wang comforted them. "With more contact and understanding of cancer, tell them how to regulate their body and mind. Tell them not to sigh. From health, sigh is not good." Sometimes customers need, Just staying with the chat, "Looking for half an hour, an hour, or even a chat for a long time." There is a patient in Inner Mongolia who spends money here and can't afford the rent. Master Wang let her in her own home. After living for a week, she gave her soup.

In the afternoon, the shop came to a girl from Inner Mongolia, named Wang Lu (a pseudonym). She was dressed in a white dress and had a short hair. If she didn’t say it, she couldn’t see the wig she wore, and she couldn’t see it. Her illness is already very heavy. Wang Lu has been in Beijing for more than a year. He has undergone surgery and relapsed twice. The cancer cells are unable to control and now spread to the lungs . "Every time I hear bad news, I say to myself, 'It’s already like this, what else can you do?' It must not give up."

She and Master Wang met in the branch of Chaoyang District. Master Wang helped her to make a wig and sent her home. Sometimes she is particularly bored in the hospital. Sometimes she comes to the store of Master Wang to chat and download some movies online. "When you are sick, you need someone else's concern and you can trust others."

I asked Wang Lu what effect the wig had on her. She said: " You are already sick, and you are especially inferior in your heart. If someone else gives you a look, you will think it is particularly complicated. But I put on it. This wig, you can't see it at all. Then I don't say that I am sick, you don't even know that I am a patient. That is to say, wearing a wig has confidence, and if you are confident, you are not happy. I dare to take the bus and dare not go to a place with lots of people. Now go anywhere, because there is hair again, it is the same as before. So it is really important to say that the wig is."

After these years of development, Wang Feng's wig shop has opened nearly 10 branches in Beijing, all of which are located next to the hospital, which is convenient for patients to go. In the case of patients who are far away, the store can drive. He also set up a wig charity project, offering ten places a month and giving an economical wig for free to patients with difficulty.

Next, he is ready to open a branch in the country, and the two stores in Shanghai have already been selected. Usually, Master Wang rushes back and forth between different branches. He laughs and calls himself a workaholic. Now the wig's business is still in the process of improvement, and projects like charity wigs and flower delivery are only available recently. And he is still training new employees, he admits that technology is no problem, but the concept of conveying customers is difficult.

I asked him that he has so many employees now, and he will start to make wigs himself. He said that people often ask him to specify his hair style for wigs. "If I want to let go, there will be no meaning. There will be no sense of accomplishment. The guests will not praise you and will not touch you. Just like a friend, Every time the guest is gone, he is happy, he is happy, I am happy too, I live happily every day. You see that I cut my real hair and cut the hair style. He can’t say: 'Master Wang, I am leaving, I will find you next time. 'The sense of accomplishment and this two things, my sense of accomplishment, he is very touched, he shakes hands, he praises you, tells the heart, thank you, Master Wang."