What are the jokes about couplets?

Once upon a time, there was a Jinshi who, after becoming an official, took bribes and perverted the law, dominating the city. Later, when he was old, he returned to his hometown with tens of thousands of pieces of silver. At this time, his son was admitted to Jinshi. My son, like Lao Tzu, is also a bully, and the people hate it.

On New Year's Eve this year, the old Jinshi looked at the house full of gold and silver, and then looked at himself and his son wearing brand-new official uniforms. His wife and daughter-in-law are also dressed in gorgeous clothes, pearls and jewels. The old man was so proud that he asked his son to bring red paper and personally wrote a couplet for his son to stick on the door. The couplet reads:

Father Jinshi, son Jinshi, father and son Jinshi;

Old lady, daughter-in-law, old lady.

The couplet means that Lao Zi is a scholar and his son is also a scholar. Both father and son want to be officials. The wife is a lady, the daughter-in-law is a lady, and both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law are aristocratic women (in ancient times, only the wives of people with status could be called "ladies").

There is a poor scholar in the village who hates Jinshi and his son. He read this couplet and had a brainwave. In the middle of the night, while there was no one in the street, the scholar quietly came to the door of Jinshi's house with a writing brush, drew three strokes on the first couplet and added nine strokes on the second couplet. Then, people will not be noticed.

The next morning, it was New Year's Day. People come and go to congratulate each other on the New Year. This pair of changed couplets at the entrance of Jinshi's house was also found. It takes a little effort to attract a group of people. Someone pointed to the couplet and read aloud:

Father in the grave, son in the grave, father and son in the grave;

A woman loses her husband, a daughter-in-law loses her husband, and both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law lose their husbands.

"Bury" means "bury", which means that people are buried when they die. "Husband" of course means husband. The couplets changed by the scholar became: father burial, son burial, father and son death! The wife lost her husband, the daughter-in-law lost her husband, and the mother-in-law became a pair of living widows.

People watched and listened, and all burst out laughing. Bursts of laughter alarmed the Jinshi father and son. As soon as the father and son went out, they immediately turned Laojin blue with anger and fainted on the front steps.

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