const { ethers } = require("ethers");
const { fs } = require("fs-extra"); 
require("dotenv").config(); 

async function main() {
  const provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider(process.env.RPC_URL); 

  const encryptedJson = fs.readFileSync("./.encryptedKey.json", "utf8"); 

  let wallet = new ethers.Wallet.fromEncryptedJsonSync(
    encryptedJson,
    process.env.PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD
  ); 

  wallet = await wallet.connect(provider);

  const abi = readFileSync(
    "./hh-fcc/ethers-simple-storage_SimpleStorage_sol_SimpleStorage.abi",
    "utf8"
  );
  const binary = readFileSync(
    "./hh-fcc/ethers-simple-storage_SimpleStorage_sol_SimpleStorage.bin",
    "utf8"
  );
  const contractFactory = new ethers.ContractFactory(abi, binary, wallet);
  console.log("Deploying, please wait...");
  const contract = await contractFactory.deploy();
  await contract.deployTransaction.wait(1);

  const currentFavoriteNumber = await contract.retrieve();
  console.log(`Current Favorite Number: ${currentFavoriteNumber.toString()}`);
  const transactionResponse = await contract.store("7"); 
  const transactionReceipt = await transactionResponse.wait(1); 
  const updatedFavoriteNumber = await contract.retrieve();
  console.log(`Updated favorite number is: ${updatedFavoriteNumber}`);
}

main() // code for waiting the above code to finish
  .then(() => process.exit(0)) //and then print any errors
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exit(1);
  });

`For the above code I’m getting the error as: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘readFileSync’)

Based on the other solutions on stackoverflow I have lowered the version of ethers which solved the bug but ended up to this line of error`