愚人买鞋

In ancient times, there was a bookworm who spent all day buried in books, believing that every question could be answered from them. Due to his rigid and superficial reading, his "absolute faith in books" often led him to take passages out of context. One day, while resting his feet near a stove fire and reading an article about ancient people drilling wood to make fire, his shoes caught fire. Yet he kept muttering, "Smoke comes first, then fire." When he finally noticed the flames, he panicked and turned to his books for help. Finding a passage that read, "Tangerines are warm and gentle in nature and can extinguish fire," he hurriedly devoured tangerines. The juice dripped onto his shoes and put out the fire, and he rejoiced, marveling at the greatness of books—though his shoes were now unwearable. He went to the market to buy new shoes. When the shoemaker asked for his size, he scratched his head and said, "I’ll go home to fetch it!" After rummaging through his belongings, he found a bamboo scroll left by his father, which stated, "Wear shoes six inches long." He ignored the preceding line, "My son is seven years old," and the following one, "Feet grow with the person, step by step."