Struggle to develop new farmland.

My history after the war 　②
We couldn't go back to Tokyo, because Tokyo was  completely destroyed, but still, so many people were flowing into the city from everywhere across the country. My older brother,who had been independent of our family, went to Tokyo to see what had happened to our house. "Nothing, there was nothing. I couldn't spot and recognize the place where our house used to be." He reported with a piece of thick glass of a US bomber and  a burned-out helmet in his hands which he found somewhere around the place of our house.
Our family had no place to go, so we decided to cultivate wild land to produce something we could live on. I didn't know how my father got the land, but I heard he went to Sendai many times to negotiate with officers of the prefectural govenment. We moved from our rented house to a little valley, where we built a hut with a thatched roof. My father tried to develop a rice field, but found the water was too cold to grow rice.