***why a maybe***
A reviewer I follow on Goodreads had this to say about the story:

Salesman turns away from his life that he finds devoid of meaning and adopts an alien spirituality. Cool alien culture and language!

Short and to the point. The thing is they also mentioned it won a Hugo? I don't know in which year but somehow I have this huge mental block of reading the older winners of the Hugo Awards. Every time I think it would be a fun project I look at the titles and think "Eh, let's watch a review by Thomas of SFF180 on YouTube."

But it does sound intriguing so it's a maybe!

有趣的是, 主人公决定转行做侍应生的时候, 他已经成功地卖出了第一笔"大买卖". 所以他为什么退休了? ( )

A story about a human salesman trying to adjust to an alien economy. I'm still not sure how the alien economy works, but the story was interesting. ( )