How to use the hardhat.ethers function in hardhat

): Promise => {
  // Find the provider object. See comments for `findBaseHardhatProvider`
  const provider = findBaseHardhatProvider(hre)

  // Sometimes the VM hasn't been initialized by the time we get here, depending on what the user
  // is doing with hardhat (e.g., sending a transaction before calling this function will
  // initialize the vm). Initialize it here if it hasn't been already.
  if ((provider as any)._node === undefined) {
    await (provider as any)._init()
  }

  // Pull out a reference to the vm's state manager.
  const pStateManager = (provider as any)._node._vm.pStateManager

  const layout = await getStorageLayout(name)
  const factory = (await hre.ethers.getContractFactory(
    name,
    signer
  )) as ModifiableContractFactory

  const originalDeployFn = factory.deploy.bind(factory)
  factory.deploy = async (...args: any[]): Promise => {
    const contract: ModifiableContract = await originalDeployFn(...args)
    contract._smodded = {}

    const put = async (storage: any) => {
      if (!storage) {
        return
      }

      const slots = getStorageSlots(layout, storage)
      for (const slot of slots) {