Growing tea helps indebted widow cope with her loss

Anhui woman left with huge medical bill after death of husband and son

Out of Cheng Shilian's loss, came tea. The 76-year-old has experienced the deaths of several family members, but keeping her hands in the soil of East China's Anhui province has helped her to cope.

"It is only when I am busy working in the field that I feel stronger," said Cheng, who grows green-tea seedlings in Niujiaochong village in Lu'an city's mountainous Huoshan county.