Originally, Lin Jiazhong thought of just building a simple two-room shelter for Lady Yang, but perhaps because he felt challenged by Lin Yuan's family, he ultimately decided to properly construct a house for Lady Yang: three rooms in the North Room—one room with a kang bed for sleeping, one main hall, and another room for storing various miscellaneous items, even though Lady Yang had virtually nothing to store.
Besides the three North Room chambers, he also built a kitchen and a latrine. Not to mention the kitchen, even the latrine had a roof over it, which showed that Lin Jiazhong was indeed provoked.
When Chen Zhu's family lived there, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds. Lin Jiazhong also had people clean up the grass and even tidied up the well in the courtyard.
In just seven or eight days, the previously dilapidated courtyard really did undergo a complete transformation.
