Complex sentence: Finding a tree, he threw a small stone toward tree in hopes of knocking some fruit loose Quanzhou mayor Tsai (蔡) was passing by, and his hat was knocked off by the stone Zheng had thrown.
Split into simpler sentences: Finding a tree, he threw a small stone toward tree in hopes of knocking some fruit loose. The mayor of Quanzhou, surnamed Tsai (蔡), was passing by, and his hat was knocked off by the stone Zheng had thrown.