C63 There must be a Death of the Country

Wang Wenyan turned a deaf ear to Xu Ling's couplet.

Putting aside whether Wang Wenyan could read the second half of the couplets, he was unwilling to listen to the first half of the couplets.

Why?

The ancient saying went, "If you are old and not dead, you are a thief.

Although Xu Ling did not use the first half of the poem to call him a thief, if Wang Wenyan took the second half of the poem