"Deputy captain, you can put a hundred hearts, this case will definitely not become an old case, tomorrow I will take Xiao Xu to the hardware store near Bian Zhuang to ask, see the origin of the axe, the style and use of the ax determine that it can only be used in a small area, there must not be many sellers and buyers."

"By the way, old horse, have you found the murderer's fingerprints on the axe?"

Ma Zhiyuan shook his head again and said no, Zhang Bin scolded: "This rabbit cub doesn't seem to be stupid, and he still has a hand." ”

Sun Jianguo thought for a while and said: "That's it, Binzi, you take Xiao Xu to find out the source of the axe tomorrow, and I will ask the person who investigates the missing person tomorrow to ask the people in the village if anyone has found anything abnormal in the field where the incident occurred." ”

The next morning, Zhang Bin called me, and began to check the hardware store near Bian Zhuang District with a photo of the axe, and after a morning of investigation, nothing was found, and the owner of the hardware store said that he had never entered this kind of axe, or had never seen this kind of axe.

"Fuck! Could it be that the murderer made this axe himself? Zhang Bin parked the car under a big tree, slammed the steering wheel and scolded.

I thought for a while and said, "No, look at the style of the axe, you can see that it is like that when it leaves the factory, how can ordinary people make it?" Unless it's the blacksmith's own work. ”

"It won't be a blacksmith shop, think about it, the business of the blacksmith shop is that every year, if someone customizes an axe, the ironsmith must have an impression, and it is just to kill someone, the murderer does not need to go to great lengths to customize an axe. In the afternoon, we will go to other places to see if there are any hardware stores that sell this kind of axe. ”

Zhang Bin thought for a while and said affirmatively, now he can't think of any other good way, so he can only leave it like this for the time being. In fact, in the process of solving cases, you will often encounter this kind of obstacles, and if there are no obstacles, there will not be so many old backlogs. Thinking of this, I feel a little better, and I have pinned my hopes on this afternoon.

At noon, Zhang Bin and I didn't go back to the bureau to eat, we found a small stall on the side of the road and ate a little, two bowls of rice with spicy soup, not to mention, the taste is really good, when I was full of food and drink and was about to leave, I suddenly caught a glimpse of an axe lying in the store's firewood stack, which looked a bit like the axe found at the bottom of the well, that is, the axe that the murderer committed.

"Brother Bin, do you look at that axe, doesn't it look like the axe used by the murderer?" I pulled Zhang Bin aside and said to him with a puzzled expression.

Zhang Bin stretched his neck to take a look, tilted his head a few more times, and nodded after a few seconds: "It's really a bit like, you kid can see it, give you a verbal third-class skill, go back to my dormitory to get it." ”

After speaking, he walked to the store and asked, "Brother, where did you get this axe?" Looks pretty good. ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "I bought the axe from the city, and it has been more than a year, and it has long been dull and unused." ”

Zhang Bin walked to the vicinity of the firewood stack as he spoke, picked up the axe and said, "Which store in the city?" I also want to chop wood for the old man in the house. ”

I followed and took a closer look, although the axe was a little worn, I could still see that the style was basically the same as the axe found at the murder scene, and the wedge was also fixed with iron sheets. Zhang Bin was afraid of admitting his mistake, and took out the photos and compared them repeatedly, and finally asked me if I felt like it, I insisted that this was it, anyway, it was a dead horse as a live horse doctor, so it was better to simply go and see it.

The shopkeeper said: "It's the hardware store called Taurus, I don't know if there is one now, I bought it at the beginning of last year." ”

"Okay, thank you, brother, next time we'll come to your place for dinner, and call my colleagues by the way."

Zhang Bin, who got the accurate news, suddenly couldn't care about anything else, and after hurriedly thanking me, he pulled me into the police car and went straight to the "Golden Bull Hardware Store" in the store's mouth.

"No wonder we can't find it, it turns out that the murderer bought it in the city, and in the wrong direction, we can't find it in this life." Zhang Bin glanced at me and smiled: "I knew that I took you out today to bring you out right, I am an old man, and I am really a young man." ”

"Brother Bin, you are not even thirty years old, where did you come from?"

"Why aren't you old? Until now, I don't even have a daughter-in-law, and I can still organize and arrange it in the early years, but now that the society is open and the love is free, like me, I'm afraid I can only be single for a lifetime. Forget it, when this case is solved, go home, and let the old man do it for me, and it just so happens that they are also urging every day. ”

Without chatting too much, we quickly found the Jinniu hardware store, turned off the engine and opened the door to get out of the car, Zhang Bin's speed was so fast that he almost fell to the ground, staggered and stood firmly, ran into the store and shouted at the top of his voice: "Boss!" Boss! ”

I hurriedly followed, and saw a young man coming out of the back room, Zhang Bin took out a photo of an axe from his pocket, and asked, "Boss, do you have this kind of axe here?" ”

The young man took the photo and looked at it carefully, and said, "Comrade policeman, this kind of axe used to exist, but now the manufacturer no longer produces it, and I don't have it anymore." ”

Zhang Bin asked: "Did you have before?" When was there one? ”

"This kind of axe has been imported once, a total of thirteen, I remember it was in early March last year."

Zhang Bin asked excitedly: "Who have you sold it to?" Remember? ”

The young man shook his head helplessly and said, "I don't remember, there are a lot of people who come to my store every day, how can I remember them one by one." ”

I instantly felt a little disappointed, could it be that the clue is broken here again? Thinking of this, I was a little unwilling, and asked without giving up: "Think about it again, see if you can remember?" ”

The old man frowned and thought for a while, took out the account book and looked at it for a few minutes, and finally said in embarrassment: "I really can't remember, if I can remember, I don't dare to hide it." ”

Zhang Bin calmed down at this time, took out a pen and quickly wrote his name and contact information in a notebook and pulled it to the young man, and echoed and said: "Yes, forget it, if you think about it, go to the Municipal Public Security Bureau to find me." ”

"Okay, I'll think about it again, and if I can remember it, I'll tell you right away."

After leaving the store and returning to the police car, I said to Zhang Bin: "Back to the bureau? ”

Zhang Bin's mood was a little low, he nodded and didn't say anything, I can understand his mood, I thought he had caught an important clue, but I didn't expect that in the end, the bamboo basket was empty.

returned to the bureau and reported the results of the investigation to Sun Jianguo, how did he know that Sun Jianguo actually smiled, and then said to himself: "It is easy to determine the time of death, it seems that this case will not become an old case." ”